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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: On the issue of school of choice, if the closest school for which a student can get a bus ticket is coeducational and the student wants to go to an all-female or all-male school, should he or she have that choice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: What research or work has been done now that the tourism season has finished? Have the Minister's officials or Bus Éireann been in contact with some of the bus tour operators to try to alleviate the ongoing problem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: The Minister stated there was difficulty in communications with Bus Éireann. I have to say there is ongoing difficulty in communications with Bus Éireann. My colleagues to whom I have spoken in the past few weeks are absolutely, totally, frustrated with the communications of Bus Éireann. I know the Minister addressed email problems earlier but I ask that her officials, when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister. The next speakers are Deputies Dillon, Mac Sharry, O’Rourke, McHugh, McNamara and Ó Murchú, each of whom have five minutes each, as non-members. I call Deputy Dillon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I ask that the Minister replies directly to the Deputy and deals with him through a full reply, please, or to come back to the committee and we will forward the reply on to the Deputy, as we want to allow other members to contribute to the committee. I call Deputy MacSharry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Let the Minister reply briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Five minutes are up, Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: We are moving on and will have the next person. The Minister can go back to the clerk if she has further information for Deputy MacSharry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy McHugh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy McNamara.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: That will be up to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy Naughten.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank everyone for their forbearance in getting through the meeting. I thank the Minister and her officials for attending. The Minister will leave with an understanding of people's absolute frustration. This is one issue that I, as Chair of the Committee, have had many calls about in the context of bringing her before us. Many other people would have liked to have attended the meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I call Deputy Ó Ríordáin, to be followed by Deputy Nolan. If she is not here, I will call Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have asked questions and I am asking the Minister to answer them. Is a student who is on a bus without a ticket insured?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have two more speakers and the Minister has to be gone by 11.30 a.m.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to plans to change the method of communication used in motorbike driving tests between the applicant and tester; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46050/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 570. To ask the Minister for Health when frontline workers employed by private nursing homes will receive their pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45914/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forest Service of his Department is on track to deliver on the commitment in the Forestry Licencing Plan 2022 to approve 350 applications for reconstitution of woodland scheme – frost damage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45555/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost for the ecological input into each file processed through the ecology unit of the Forest Service of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45556/22]