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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if private waste providers are required by regulations to provide compost bins to householders; if they are permitted to charge for this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27900/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will notify local authorities of the exemption dates for agri-burns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28092/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered introducing changes to straw shredding regulations, given the shortage of straw and fodder this year as a consequence of weather; if he will consider an opt-out clause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27848/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 386. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason persons (details supplied) were moved, with no notice, to Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, despite attending work and school in Carlow town; if they can be accommodated again locally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28328/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 392. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1743 of 17 January 2024, if there is any further development in the provision of a pathway for a person to claim compensation for what they believe to be illegal nursing home charges paid between 1977 and 1979, who has not as of yet made any claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a complete list of applicants for a programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of late applicants for a programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28471/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Teaching Council. Any time I have made a query on behalf of a teacher coming back from abroad, it has always been helpful. I might not always get the answer I want, but normally the Teaching Council is able to speed up the process if at all possible. When a qualified teacher goes to the Middle East or Australia, they normally go for two to five years. Many go for up to ten...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Yes and some who have never been on it, depending on the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Do many fail that part of the test, having been abroad? Has the Teaching Council come across many cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Is that for both primary and secondary teachers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Has the Teaching Council any proposals for how the teaching profession could be more representative of Irish society? Irish society has totally changed in the past 20 years with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, including LGBTQ members, socioeconomic status, Traveller background and so on. Has much thought been put into how social changes in Ireland have happened over the last ten years?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: In all that research and work that is going to be done, will the Teaching Council be consulting the stakeholders like the INTO, the ASTI, the TUI and the representatives of the teacher unions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: What sort of input will these stakeholders have into this work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Concerning the way schools have divested in recent times and lay people are now chairs and boards of management are being encouraged in this regard, I am not sure what way to frame this question but hopefully the witnesses will understand the gist of where I am coming from when I say there would have been an issue in the past when teachers would have said they were members of the LBGTQ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Do representatives of the Teaching Council attend the conferences of the teacher unions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Does it hold workshops, operate stands or are its representatives just there in person? Does it have a specific stand where teachers can approach its representatives and interact? What is the normal attendance the Teaching Council would have at the conferences of the teacher unions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I encourage the Teaching Council to have a stand at the conferences of the teacher unions because the feedback received from teachers can differ a great deal from that heard from their representatives. When teachers are at their conferences, they feel more open. They are there themselves and able to express themselves. It is just an idea.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Teaching Council: Discussion (3 Jul 2024)

Paul Kehoe: From my background in politics for the last 22 years, I have always found it to be far better to deal with the organ grinders on occasions such as these because it is possible to learn an awful lot more. The teachers give much better feedback. I have nothing against the union heads, or anything like that, if they happen to be watching, but I do believe that the teachers, or the members of...