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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I remind members to ensure that their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting because they interfere with the broadcasting equipment. Are the minutes of the meeting of 22 February agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Anna Murphy, senior strategic advisor of Quality and Qualifications Ireland; Mr. Tim Conlon, head of policy and strategic planning at the Higher Education Authority; Mr. Andrew Brownlee, the chief executive officer of SOLAS; and Dr. Mary-Liz Trant, interim director of the national apprenticeship office. The witnesses are here today to discuss the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Our first question is from Senator O'Loughlin, who is swapping places with Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan. Senator O'Loughlin will be followed by Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I agree with the Deputy. We visited the technological universities in Limerick and Cork. It was fantastic to have the opportunity to visit and see exactly what happens. We learned a huge amount from that visit. We can have as many witnesses in here as possible but it is important to actually visit these places and see what happens on the ground, as well as the challenges that those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Kehoe: To correct something that Senator Mullen said about fictional research, it is very important that you have a very thick book on hand. One of my tutors always said there is less chance that they will look through a thick book than a very thin one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Dr. Trant can make a brief response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I call Deputies Conway-Walsh and Ó Laoghaire for five minutes each.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Kehoe: That concludes our discussion. I thank the witnesses for coming before us today and their honest exchange of views that we will work into our report, which we hope to publish before the summer recess. I have no doubt that they will be back before the committee for another discussion on another day.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if clarity will be provided in relation to the one-stop shop retrofitting grant; if the grant will be awarded if the final result of the retrofitting work does not meet the minimum BER B2 rating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10554/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (24 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the one-stop shops that are part of the recently announced national home retrofit scheme will be up and running; the proposals that are in place for County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10614/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Nothing about the flawed legal advice that was offered.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are available for a person who is not able to qualify for the help to buy scheme due to not meeting the loan to value ratio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10287/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has plans to ensure access to domestic compost bins to persons in rural areas who are unable to get them through their provider; if not, if there is a plan to compensate persons who incur the additional cost of having to dispose their compostable waste in general waste bins; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be allocated to provide full-time SNA hours for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9071/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application (details supplied) for an early intervention ASD class in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9084/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the purchase of a site for new school building for a school (details supplied); when the school community can expect clarity on the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9918/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Apologies have been received from Senator O'Loughlin, for whom Senator Malcolm Byrne will substitute. With the agreement of the meeting, Senator Byrne has to leave early so I will ask him to come in first once the witnesses have given their opening statements. I remind members to please ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Jim Miley, CEO of the Irish Universities Association, IUA; Dr. Joseph Ryan, CEO of the Technological Higher Education Authority, THEA; and Professor Diarmuid Hegarty, chairman of the Higher Education Colleges Association, HECA. The witnesses are here today to discuss the future funding of higher education. The format of the meeting is that I will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I invite Professor Hegarty to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Our first questioner is Senator Malcolm Byrne who will be followed by Deputy Farrell, if he is on the call, or Deputy Conway-Walsh who is substituting for Deputy Ó Laoghaire.