Results 14,661-14,680 of 17,012 for speaker:Paul Kehoe
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I want the Minister to answer my question on whether a person is insured or uninsured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: That is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: It is not up to me to police this. The Minister is responsible for what I would describe as a mess. She has made school transport free and I have said that as part of that, there should have been a nominal fee of perhaps €100 or €150. In such circumstances, I do not believe any of the students I have been talking about would have applied for a ticket. On the review-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: There is a financial burden on the people who did not get concessionary tickets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: On the review, does it depend on the Minister securing additional funding in the budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: On the review the Minister is doing, is part of the outcome dependent on any additional funding the Minister can get in the budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: On the issue of school of choice, if the closest school for which a student can get a bus ticket is coeducational and the student wants to go to an all-female or all-male school, should he or she have that choice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: What research or work has been done now that the tourism season has finished? Have the Minister's officials or Bus Éireann been in contact with some of the bus tour operators to try to alleviate the ongoing problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: The Minister stated there was difficulty in communications with Bus Éireann. I have to say there is ongoing difficulty in communications with Bus Éireann. My colleagues to whom I have spoken in the past few weeks are absolutely, totally, frustrated with the communications of Bus Éireann. I know the Minister addressed email problems earlier but I ask that her officials, when...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister. The next speakers are Deputies Dillon, Mac Sharry, O’Rourke, McHugh, McNamara and Ó Murchú, each of whom have five minutes each, as non-members. I call Deputy Dillon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I ask that the Minister replies directly to the Deputy and deals with him through a full reply, please, or to come back to the committee and we will forward the reply on to the Deputy, as we want to allow other members to contribute to the committee. I call Deputy MacSharry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Let the Minister reply briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Five minutes are up, Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: We are moving on and will have the next person. The Minister can go back to the clerk if she has further information for Deputy MacSharry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy McHugh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy McNamara.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: That will be up to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy Naughten.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I thank everyone for their forbearance in getting through the meeting. I thank the Minister and her officials for attending. The Minister will leave with an understanding of people's absolute frustration. This is one issue that I, as Chair of the Committee, have had many calls about in the context of bringing her before us. Many other people would have liked to have attended the meeting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy Ó Ríordáin, to be followed by Deputy Nolan. If she is not here, I will call Deputy Conway-Walsh.