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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the unsuccessful fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be retained and awarded in January 2023 when the means limit has no longer been exceeded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2023 (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that will be put in place to allow for the upcoming social welfare pension increases and for those over 70 years-old full medical card holders who will now exceed the threshold due to this increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50546/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will take inflation and the impact of the concrete levy into account when awarding TAMS funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50698/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 233. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount in the form of grants or direct funding that her Department or agencies under her Department's remit have provided to local environment networks, public participation networks that are categorised under the Environmental Pillar; if she will provide a list those organisations that are in receipt of monies in each of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of this meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment even on silent mode. Are the minutes of the meeting of 21 September 2022 agreed to? Agreed. Senator Malcolm Byrne will substitute for Senator Fiona O'Loughlin. Is that agreed to? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, and her officials. The Minister is before the committee to discuss: the Cork Life Centre and the Review of Out-of-School Education Provision report; progress made in implementing the recommendations in the joint committee reports entitled, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health, and Leaving Certificate Reform: The need for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: The first member to speak is Deputy Cathal Crowe. He will be followed by Senator Dolan. If Senator Dolan is not here, we will move to Deputy Conway-Walsh. Deputy Crowe has six minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: The next speaker is Deputy Ó Laoghaire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: No. Senator Mullen has very generously given way. The Deputy will be followed by Senator Flynn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Deputy and call Deputy O'Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I want to be fair to the Minister. There is a set agenda. School transport is not on it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: ----- but if the Minister wants to give Senator Dolan a brief reply, I will not stop her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I was going to stop Senator Malcolm Byrne but, as a constituency colleague, he dealt with it easily.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I must cut the Minister off. We have gone well beyond the six minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have a question about Cork Life Centre and the out-of-school education provision review being undertaken in the Minister's Department. When it was published, in May, a number of factual inaccuracies regarding Cork Life Centre were raised. At the time, the Minister committed to amending it and addressing the issues. Where are we in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have not checked the website but has the report that was published on it in May been amended to reflect the changes sought by Cork Life Centre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have a great interest in Cork Life Centre even though I have nothing to gain from supporting it given it is not in my constituency or anything like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: When I visited Cork Life Centre along with members of the committee, I was struck by people’s various backgrounds, from working class and lower middle class to upper middle class. Every one of them was high class but they came from various backgrounds. Every child and student has various levels of confidence and various ways in which they are able to express themselves independently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I will allow others to come in before I come in again.