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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: No, no. We are going way beyond our remit here this evening if we go back to what I read out to the Senator before the meeting regarding what we are considering. I have been giving the Senator a lot of leniency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I have been very good to the Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I know that, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: No. One second, please, Senator. If we were going to discuss this issue, we would have added it to the issues and topics to be discussed. I will give the Senator another two minutes in light of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: It should have been raised before we put it on the screen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: The Senator has two minutes and then I am going to give the Minister two minutes to reply. We will then close off the debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: The Senator has 25 seconds left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Sorry-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Okay-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming in before us this evening. There has been a frank exchange of views from all members but it has been a very important exchange of views. It has brought us up to date on where the Minister is on a number of topics and issues in his Department.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish embassy in the United Kingdom offers the facility for a landlord of an Irish property to sign a statutory declaration under supervision at the Embassy; if not, if he is aware that this is a service that the Residential Tenancies Board advises is available in their guidance notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to pay for bank and public holidays accrued while receiving illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39747/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the proposed tillage incentive scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39734/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I am going to have to suspend the meeting because we have to go to the Dáil for the vote.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when outstanding grants will be paid to a primary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40830/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (10 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether persons on Fás, CE and Tús schemes will be eligible for the cost-of-living payments announced in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40715/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2025 (10 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 285. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Budget measure announced to cover the cost of HRT will cover any alternative medicines or supplements prescribed by a GP to manage perimenopause/menopause symptoms for women who cannot take regular HRT, due to a family history of breast cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40728/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (10 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 331. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she will approve funding for men’s sheds in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40730/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 330. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she will announce successful projects under the community centres investment fund in Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40729/24]