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

Paul Kehoe: I thank Deputy Barry. Before I call the next speaker, I will comment along the same train of thought. Are there many centres similar to Cork Life Centre across the country? I am not sure of any of them. Do they have the same challenges as Cork Life Centre in losing staff? I am following a thread from Deputies Barry, Pádraig O'Sullivan and Ó Laoghaire. The centre lost staff at...

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

Paul Kehoe: Okay. Senator Mullen will be followed by Deputy Conway-Walsh.

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

Paul Kehoe: We have gone beyond time and we must be fair to everyone. I do not want any member to say that I allowed latitude to anyone else.

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

Paul Kehoe: I call Senator Aisling Dolan.

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

Paul Kehoe: I have one or two questions for the Minister. She will be glad to hear we will then be finished. The committee welcomes the Minister's announcement of more than €5 million for the pilot programme of counselling supports for primary schools. I know it was a recommendation in the committee's report, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health, although when the Minister announces...

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

Paul Kehoe: -----but are there any plans to roll this pilot programme out to post-primary schools? Will it be in the next budget? It is an excellent initiative and it was raised with the committee by a number of groups and organisations during our deliberations. I know this is another cost but in the long term, there might also be a saving here and that it might be possible to identify some of the...

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

Paul Kehoe: I congratulate the Minister on doing that. It deserves praise.

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

Paul Kehoe: It might have been asked previously but I would like to ask about the establishment of the steering group to review the 2013 action plan on school bullying. Can the Minister indicate when the action plan review will be published or where she and her Department are on that?

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

Paul Kehoe: To be fair to all members, I must move on to Deputy O'Callaghan. I will allow more time later for Deputy Conway-Walsh to get to the bottom of that issue.

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

Paul Kehoe: The Minister mentioned DCU. I would like to compliment those in DCU, who have appeared before the committee, on the excellent work they do on the FUSE programme. I ruled somebody out of order for talking about school transport but I will ask that question when I am on my own-----

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

Paul Kehoe: No one else can come in. I have a very quick question on the review of school transport. I have put down a parliamentary question on the additional funding the Minister got in the budget for school transport, but have not seen the reply yet. Will that mean additional places for students who do not have tickets at the moment and who are looking for tickets or will it be used to take on...

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

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister and her officials for coming before the committee this evening. A significant amount of work takes place in the background with the officials before any Minister comes before a committee. In that context, I thank the officials for the notes provided. Members should be very happy with a productive meeting at which we addressed key issues that affect students and schools...

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

Paul Kehoe: Regarding Bus Éireann not allowing people over 70 years of age to drive buses, there should be an instruction. Is it the Minister's responsibility or that of the Minister for Transport? The Government is looking for people to work longer and is changing the old age pension criteria to that end. Some of these people aged 70 are fresher than some drivers who are 50. This issue needs to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Does the Taoiseach share my concerns regarding the decision by RTÉ radio to drop a heavily sanitised interview it had recorded with the former Minister and Deputy, Shane Ross, on his new book on Deputy McDonald? RTÉ has some very serious questions to answer. It is a publicly funded organisation, getting millions of euro of taxpayers' money in the recent budget. It has a duty of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: The Taoiseach is correct.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Where can I go to get an explanation?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: You would want to keep your good censorship, I can tell you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if incentives have been put in place to encourage teachers to sign up for correction work on the delayed Junior Certificate results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are being taken to provide candidates, parents and schools with certainty regarding the arrangements for issuing the Junior Certificate results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49693/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2023 (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance the timescale for the introduction of a levy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49656/22]