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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: We can all talk about reform but there has to be an appetite for that. Do the witnesses feel the Department of Education has the appetite for real reform and will do the reform needed? We are now post Covid. Over the past 18 months, everybody spoke about the leaving certificate needing reform. I do not think the appetite is there in the Department of Education and I am disappointed in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I will take up the point Dr. Ryan mentioned. There were two issues I wanted to look at as Chair of the committee, namely, school bullying and leaving certificate reform. That was because of my experiences in both of them. I was taken by a point from Deputy Ó Ríordáin on people approaching the leaving certificate and being afraid. I would say 75% or 80% of students...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: To go back to my original question, when a Minister or officials in a Department are asked to review something, they all come out in cold sweats. I am a former Minister and, as Mr. Miley said, one never knows what it is going to throw up. There has to be an appetite. I am a little disappointed that the Minister, Deputy Foley, did not put it as a priority when she was appointed because a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Miley, Dr. Ryan, Professor Hegarty and Mr. Whyte for attending today's meeting. The discussion today has been very productive. I commend all our witnesses on their very forthright views. I know that today's work will be part and parcel of our report on leaving certificate reform. I know a number of the witnesses have appeared before the committee over the past number of months...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Senator, is that okay with you?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 769. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary statutory instrument will be put in place under the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 which will enable the Medical Council to address the outstanding issues relating to the inclusion of medical consultants many of whom are consultants for more than ten years to be included on the specialist register; and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 105. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next round of sports capital grant scheme funding will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50338/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to transfer funding for an organisation (details supplied) to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50343/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an educational institute (details supplied) is under her Department's remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50344/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an educational institute (details supplied) is under his Department's remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50345/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 215. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce a multi-annual funding structure to support motor neurone disease nurses in the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50339/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 468 of 7 October 2021, if his Department is unable to fulfil the needs of the forestry sector, not only in terms of licensing but other essential needs such as frost recon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50264/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 30 September 2021, if he regards the integration between CAP and afforestation as being satisfactory during the current CAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 392 of 3 September 2021, his views on whether there are forestry profession skills such as species selection, establishment practices, ongoing management and other specific operations particular to the growing of trees that should be inherent in any schemes run and administered by his...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 392 of 30 September 2021, his views on whether it is appropriate for unqualified persons in the forestry profession to advise farmers or other land-owners on forestry or tree related issues in schemes administered and run by his Department, such schemes to include new agri-environmental or eco...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Inquiries (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49986/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the working family payment for a person (details supplied) was refused; if they are being penalised due to their pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49987/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider an increase for the D1 stamp fixed pension recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49341/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way flood that risk maps are created; the way a person who is of the view that their area has incorrectly been included in a flood risk area can query this with the possibility of being removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49360/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is considering returning school transport to full capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49159/21]