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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: How many schools for the deaf are of there across the island of Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Ms Mannnion. It is just that we have to finish by 1 o'clock and I want to get in as well. I ask the officials to give brief answers, if at all possible. Among a number of groups we had in earlier was Chime. It fears the gap widening between the mainstream school and people within the deaf community and the educational attainment not being published. I cannot understand why it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Are other countries publishing such information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: That is wide-ranging.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: What I am saying is, specifically, on deaf children, if we are to learn whether we are on a par with other countries and if the people who came before us earlier today are to learn, it is not a big job to be able to evaluate and collate all that information. It would give confidence to children that, for example, 70% of the people are doing the leaving certificate. It is a fault of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Maybe Ms Mannion would come back to me with an answer on that by way of a written response to the clerk to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: We probably will have to come back to this issue. My biggest frustration is that there is the HSE, early childhood, primary and secondary education, and third-level education and while I do not want to stigmatise or put these people aside as special people, they are. We are very lucky. I am able to hear Ms Mannion and she is able to hear me. We take it for granted. Many children do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: We have one in Limerick and one in Dublin. We have special education units right across the country. There is huge investment going into these, which is extremely welcome. We have two schools for the deaf and one of them is operating on two separate campuses. That is ludicrous. If students are to learn from each other, from junior cycle to senior cycle, they need to be together and give...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I have one further question. There are two schools for the deaf in the country. I have three children but I do not have a deaf child. If I had a deaf son or daughter, however, and if I wanted to send them to a dedicated school for the deaf, one school is based in Limerick and one is based in Dublin. If a child, for example, is going into junior infants and the family is from Wexford, what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I commend the Department on special education but there are specifics within that that need to be addressed. On the education theme, the publication is very important and we will come back to it again. We will have conclude because the interpreters have to be in the Dáil at 2 p.m. and need their lunch. I thank the officials for coming before us today and I thank the previous...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coast Guard Service (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the status of the proposed new station at Kilmore Quay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33232/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the working family payment for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33263/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the application for the animal remedies merchants licence for a company (details supplied); when it will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on security of electricity supply and whether there will be sufficient electricity generation capacity to meet expected national demand over the next two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33732/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason subsequent tests are not pushed out to reflect the current delays in getting appointments for NCT; if the future due dates for tests cannot be changed, if the fee is reduced pro rata to reflect the compliance period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34313/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance following the rule from 1 July 2023 that non-resident landlords have to use an agent to collect their rent and remit 20% of same to the Revenue Commissioners, or the landlord has to allow the tenant deduct 20% from the rent and remit it directly to Revenue Commissioners on behalf of the landlord, if the tenant pays 80% of the rent to the landlord but fails...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Information and Communications Technology (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the use of cloud computing services is important in helping the Government digitalise and improve public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33733/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Passport Services (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he has given any consideration to implementing or has undertaken any review, report or research into the feasibility of sending notice of expiration of passports to all passport holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34549/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Passport Services (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated additional costs that would be accrued for the implementation of a renewal notice system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34551/23]