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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: If the Minister reverts to the clerk to the committee, we will forward the reply to the Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: In the first part of our meeting, I received correspondence from Cork Life Centre to say that officials from the Department have not met representatives from the centre regarding the future of the school but that they have met to discuss social inclusion. I encourage the Minister to understand members' frustration regarding this matter and their interest in it. We ask the Minister's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: If the Minister's officials could engage with the Cork Life Centre, the members here would very much appreciate it. I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for appearing before the committee. We have had a worthwhile discussion on both issues. We will suspend proceedings for two minutes while we wait for Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the Minister and his officials. The Minister is here to discuss education supports and provision for displaced Ukrainian students. I will invite him to make a brief opening statement, if the Minister wishes to make a statement, and this will be followed by questions from members. We will reduce the time slots to six minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: The Minister has two minutes and 20 seconds. I am being generous and giving Deputy Alan Farrell six minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: If there are any outstanding replies, the clerk will send them to the members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I have a proposal to make with which the Minister might agree. I propose that a member from the Opposition pair with the Minister and one of the Senators take the chair. I will go to the vote and the meeting can continue. Will one of the Sinn Féin Deputies pair with the Minister. Will whichever Deputy pairs with the Minister ask him the question as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: He will have to get used to it. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Out-of-School Provision Report and Education and Supports Provision for Ukrainian Students: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I know that, but I am asking specifically about the Cork Life Centre.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Provision of Education Supports for Ukrainian Students (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister for that response. I also thank him for coming before the committee today. It has been a very productive discussion on an important issue. I apologise to the Minister's officials for the delay in starting the meeting and for keeping them so late. They should have been long gone by now. We will adjourn until 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 14 June 2022, when we will meet in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 291. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current average processing time from receipt of additional requested information to the issuing of a passport for first-time applications, via online and via post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27368/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (26 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the process for appealing a refusal on the Sport Capital Grant; when the approved appellants will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27102/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a taxi driver who has secured the purchase of an electric vehicle on foot of the Government announcement in February 2022 can avail of the electric vehicle taxi scheme; if not, if they must hold off to register the car until the scheme is reactivated later in the year, meaning that they can neither drive the car nor work in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 708. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant assistance is available to assist a farm family (details supplied) in the removal of buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25912/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I remind members to ensure that their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment. I ask that the witnesses put their mobile phones on silent mode. Are minutes of the meeting of 17 May agreed to? Agreed. The meeting between World Skills Ireland and the Minister for Higher Education, Research, Innovation and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I call Senator Byrne who will be followed by Deputy Pádraig O’Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: The issues mentioned there are key recommendations in the leaving certificate report. We will have the Minister, Deputy Harris, before us again and we can ask similar questions then. I call Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan followed by Senator Aisling Dolan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Next we will have Senator Dolan, followed by Deputy Conway-Walsh. They will have to stick to the eight minutes because I have to come in myself and we have to finish by 1 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: No, it is okay. The Senator can go ahead.