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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: No. Senator Mullen has very generously given way. The Deputy will be followed by Senator Flynn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Deputy and call Deputy O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I want to be fair to the Minister. There is a set agenda. School transport is not on it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: ----- but if the Minister wants to give Senator Dolan a brief reply, I will not stop her.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I was going to stop Senator Malcolm Byrne but, as a constituency colleague, he dealt with it easily.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I must cut the Minister off. We have gone well beyond the six minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I have a question about Cork Life Centre and the out-of-school education provision review being undertaken in the Minister's Department. When it was published, in May, a number of factual inaccuracies regarding Cork Life Centre were raised. At the time, the Minister committed to amending it and addressing the issues. Where are we in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I have not checked the website but has the report that was published on it in May been amended to reflect the changes sought by Cork Life Centre?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I have a great interest in Cork Life Centre even though I have nothing to gain from supporting it given it is not in my constituency or anything like that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: When I visited Cork Life Centre along with members of the committee, I was struck by people’s various backgrounds, from working class and lower middle class to upper middle class. Every one of them was high class but they came from various backgrounds. Every child and student has various levels of confidence and various ways in which they are able to express themselves independently...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I will allow others to come in before I come in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Deputy Barry. Before I call the next speaker, I will comment along the same train of thought. Are there many centres similar to Cork Life Centre across the country? I am not sure of any of them. Do they have the same challenges as Cork Life Centre in losing staff? I am following a thread from Deputies Barry, Pádraig O'Sullivan and Ó Laoghaire. The centre lost staff at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Okay. Senator Mullen will be followed by Deputy Conway-Walsh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: We have gone beyond time and we must be fair to everyone. I do not want any member to say that I allowed latitude to anyone else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I call Senator Aisling Dolan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I have one or two questions for the Minister. She will be glad to hear we will then be finished. The committee welcomes the Minister's announcement of more than €5 million for the pilot programme of counselling supports for primary schools. I know it was a recommendation in the committee's report, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health, although when the Minister announces...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: -----but are there any plans to roll this pilot programme out to post-primary schools? Will it be in the next budget? It is an excellent initiative and it was raised with the committee by a number of groups and organisations during our deliberations. I know this is another cost but in the long term, there might also be a saving here and that it might be possible to identify some of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I congratulate the Minister on doing that. It deserves praise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: It might have been asked previously but I would like to ask about the establishment of the steering group to review the 2013 action plan on school bullying. Can the Minister indicate when the action plan review will be published or where she and her Department are on that?
- National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak on this issue and I welcome the Minister to the House. This is a technical Bill and will be supported from all sides of the House. It provides an opportunity for Members to speak about some of the tourism issues affecting their constituencies. I thank the Government and all the Ministers for the very welcome financial injection it gave to the...