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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any plans exist to open a special class at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55995/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (10 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the means test for a State pension (non-contributory) takes into account the full amount of capital assets notwithstanding earnings on the assets; if the means test assesses the interest earned/active appreciation of these assets; if her Department treats capital of spouses in joint bank accounts any differently to those...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Pensions (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with Coillte with a view to increasing the pension payments for retired workers, given that their pensions have not been increased for many years, and that for some, pensions have not increased since they retired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55711/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering any measures to specifically mitigate the impact of recent and future ECB rate increases on homeowners with variable or tracker mortgages who will be facing increasing mortgage repayments in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) for an ASD class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55283/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase remuneration packages for community employment scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors considering they have not had a pay rise in 13 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55360/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 771. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide guidance for people who have pledged accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, either within their own homes or in second properties but have yet to see any progress on placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54927/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider recommending that third level institutions provide access to online, remote, recorded lectures to assist students who are struggling to find local accommodation or who are facing lengthy commutes to attend their courses on a daily basis due to the lack of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54556/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 1117. To ask the Minister for Health if the nursing home support scheme will take a property into account (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54931/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Pensions (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 1201. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he arrived at the conclusion that the increase in the State pension rates in budget 2023 would not make a substantial difference to the outcome of the assessment process for the medical card; the analysis, if any, that was carried out; the way in which it demonstrated that there would not be a cohort of persons aged 70 years or older who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 1310. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there has been any further change to the deadline for submission of applications to the ACRES scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55502/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment even on silent mode. Are the minutes of the meeting of 25 October agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: We will meet with relevant academics from the NHS child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, and education authority, Dorset, United Kingdom; the Irish Universities Association, IUA; the Technological Higher Education Association, THEA and the Higher Education Colleges Association, HECA. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the following to the first session: Professor Paul Downes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Dr. O'Reilly. I invite Ms Sarah Stockham to make her presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I will also come in on that point because I am actually quite interested. We are on the same train of thought. The Deputy can butt in if she wants; I have no problem with that. Professor Downes said there was no shortage of counsellors yet a constituent rang me yesterday and told me the earliest session they can get for counselling is February of next year. Professor Downes said there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome Professor Downes's comments about what this committee and the Minister and Department have done and about the roll-out being in primary schools not in secondary schools, which I will address in a second. No matter what model the Department of Education will roll out, however, there have to be links with the HSE. Professor Downes is forgetting this in some of his answers and in his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Okay. I look at my own county and specifically my own area back home in Enniscorthy, where there is a huge number of rural primary schools. The number of pupils attending each school ranges from 50 up to 200. That is the average for most primary schools in rural Ireland. As you move into the urban centres, you get bigger schools. St. Aidan's Primary School in Enniscorthy is the biggest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: My sense is we either give the service or we do not give it, but we do not give half a service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: All right. I have some more questions for Professor Downes before I ask Ms Stockham a couple of questions. I will be meeting her on Thursday and Friday so I will not ask her too many questions. Professor Downes spoke about secondary schools and guidance counsellors. Guidance counsellors cannot give the service we are looking for here. They cannot.