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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Last year, we had an evidence-based session from representative of both the active consent and the bystander intervention programme. There are different challenges for a huge number of students out there but some of the research carried out by the active consent programme in the University of Galway and the Union of Students in Ireland in 2020 has found that 42% of women in the first year of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister for the reply. Any form of funding going in is very welcome. There are a lot of students who leave sixth class at 17 or 18 years of age and go straight into third level education, whether they go to Limerick, Dublin, Cork, Galway, Maynooth or wherever that student chooses. It is predominantly female students affected by this. It is happening on the nights out rather...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming. There is a potential for 22 votes this evening in the Dáil, so we could be there for a few hours. I am not sure whether this is the start of the voting block. It is no use for me to say I will come back in an hour.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Special Educational Needs (25 Jan 2024)
Paul Kehoe: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance if special needs assistants are entitled to claim flat rate expenses as other employees can do; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3425/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (25 Jan 2024)
Paul Kehoe: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm if a person (details supplied) has enough paid contributions to make an application for a contributory pension from before she left Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3513/24]
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Sorca Clarke. I remind members and officials to please ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting. We are here today for the purpose of dealing with the Estimates. This meeting has been convened to revise the Estimate for Vote 26 – Education, which was referred to the committee by Dáil Éireann. I...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: I will come back to the Deputy but I have some questions now. The committee did a lot of work on the future of STEM in Irish education. A key recommendation in the committee’s report is that the proposed national children’s science centre in Earlsfort Terrace should receive full Government support to get up and running as urgently as possible. This would involve ring-fenced...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: Will the Minister expand on senior cycle redevelopment? Specifically will she update the committee on the revised specifications for curriculum subjects? Will they be far more detailed as this committee has recommended? The committee has done some work on this in recent months. Will she give details on the additional assessment components, AACs, for students starting senior cycle from...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: I have two or three further questions in this regard. I have no doubt that the Minister has heard of the Fridays for Future group which has been in contact with the committee and with the secretariat. They have held protests outside various different schools and locations and outside Leinster House on different occasions. One of their asks is on climate change being very much part of the...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: On the action plan on bullying, when leaving the role as Chair of this committee in the next Dáil or at the end of this Dáil or whatever, I can say that one thing or issue on which this committee has done a very good job is the action plan for bullying. I personally compliment the Minister and her Department for being champions on this issue and for taking on the committee's report...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: I know everything is down to money. Is there a budget within the Department for schools to avail of pouches, etc.? Is that totally down to the school board of management to buy them?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: I suggest a carrot-and-stick kind of approach to the Minister. If she said, for instance, that for the next 12 months, 25% funding would be made available for the cost of buying pouches, but it would be only available for one year, she might get more buy-in from more schools. It is only a suggestion. My last question is a domestic one and is on school safety. A primary school in my area...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: Yes.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: We do not have CLÁR funding. County Wexford is the only county that cannot reach out to CLÁR. We are the only county in the country that cannot get CLÁR.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Paul Kehoe: I have had that argument. If we wanted to go for CLÁR funding, many other counties would not get it.