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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 309. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is grant funding available for authors to help cover the cost of graphic design for an instructional book prior to publication; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is grant funding available to aid completion of design of educational publications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4480/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special education classes that have opened in the country in each of the years since 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4875/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if primary schools are permitted to hold extra-curricular activities following the recent lifting of Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are options available to a person (details supplied) to be able to claim fuel allowance here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 663. To ask the Minister for Health if funding or grants are available to help persons who need a permanent oxygen machine with the electricity costs of running oxygen machines required as part of their treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4394/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I agree with Mr. McKelvey. Once upon a time, all of the teachers in the ETB schools would have come from a certain background. I will not say it was a privileged background. In the past ten years, I have seen that mould being broken in a big way. People whose parents often did not have the opportunity to go to secondary school now have the opportunity to teach in ETB schools. Perhaps...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Ms O’Rourke for that response. I have a number of questions from Senator Mullen who had to leave early. One of his questions is for the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals, NAPD. The NAPD presumably represents principals and deputy principals of some of the schools that would be affected. Did it consult those principles and deputy principals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: What about the fee-paying schools, which get less resources from the State? Is it fair to impose the same rules on them? Which of the witnesses would like to take that question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Is there a danger of an anti-rural bias, for example, where a person from rural Ireland who attended a boarding school based in a heavily populated urban area would like to do the same for his or her children? Why should those who happen to live in the city, possibly in a very affluent area, take precedence? Which of the witnesses would like to take that question? They need not all rush to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Before I wind up the meeting, I would say there has been a great deal of discussion. Senator Flynn brought a totally different dimension to the meeting than what we might normally have had and the question she asked was a very good one. I have a further question for Mr. Crone. Would many of the members of the NAPD who down the years would have been totally opposed to the policy we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Before I call Ms O'Sullivan, and I am not sure if she has evidence of this issue but it runs very deep, even to often getting the best GAA players into the school in order that the school can continue to have a very strong tradition of hurling, football, soccer or whatever the sport may be. If there one issue that comes up in my office, starting in February every year, it is the lottery...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: If the witnesses do not want to answer my next question they do not have to. Are they aware of many legal cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: If the witnesses had a message for the Department and the Minister on this specific issue what would it be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Regarding special education, undoubtedly the Deputy and the Senator will have plenty of evidence of situations where parents are travelling many miles in the morning and evening. They may be getting some travel subsidy for doing it, but that is all they get for spending hours in the car every week to get the best education for their sons and daughters. A new special education unit has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan has one more question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Does Mr. Redmond want to come in before we wrap up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Does Ms O'Rourke wish to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Dr. Redmond, Mr. Crone, Ms O'Rourke, Mr. McKelvey and Ms O'Sullivan for coming before the committee today to discuss this important issues. It has been a very productive conversation and debate.