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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Who would like to respond to Deputy Ó Ríordáin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Jones want to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I ask Mr. Dennehy to mute his microphone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Yes. Mr. Jones, please proceed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Can people put their microphones on mute when they finish speaking? I call Mr. Gillespie.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: No. My apologies. Mr. Gillespie might put his microphone on mute. I call Deputy Farrell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I apologise for interrupting the Deputy but I wish to advise everybody that this is the last meeting we will have remotely. The system has worked during the past 12 to 18 months without any problem. I am not sure if problem arose when somebody was trying to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Mr. Gillespie is having connection difficulties. Mr. Jones will respond first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will come to Mr. Dennehy. Mr. Gillespie has rejoined the meeting and his connection is perfect this time. Does Ms Austick wish to respond?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Dennehy. The next speaker-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: The next speaker is Deputy Ó Laoghaire, to be followed by Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I invite Ms Neville to respond, followed by Mr. Gillespie.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: The next speaker is Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan, to be followed by Senator Mullen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will give Mr. Gillespie one minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will move on to the next speaker because we are under time pressure. Senator Mullen is next. Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is not in the precincts of Leinster House, so I cannot take a question from him. Senator O'Loughlin is after Senator Mullen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: Ms Austick can answer the questions at the end of the meeting. Next to speak is Senator Fiona O'Loughlin and she will be followed by Senator Aisling Dolan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: The next speaker is Senator Aisling Dolan, followed by Deputy Conway-Walsh, who has been waiting patiently to get in since early morning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: The next speaker is Deputy Jim O'Callaghan and I also have a couple of questions. We will have approximately ten minutes at the end and Senator Dolan wants to come in again. Others may do so at that time if they wish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I will pick up on something Deputy Conway-Walsh said. I am sorry she has left the room, which has nothing to do with the committee. As for her comments on special education, there has been unprecedented investment into special education over the past ten years. We have increased the number of special needs class spaces and teachers. Places in special classes have increased by more than...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)
Paul Kehoe: I would like to hear the views of Mr. Jones and Ms Ní Chéileachair on continuous assessment for the core subjects. Leaving aside geography, history and what was known as commerce in my day, does a move to continuous assessment for English, Irish and mathematics constitute reform of the leaving certificate or should we go further? I am aware some of our witnesses do not support a...