Results 4,441-4,460 of 17,012 for speaker:Paul Kehoe
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020) Paul Kehoe: Some of the Deputy's questions are outside the scope of the committee. I do not expect the Minister to know everything about this but I will ask her to comment.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020) Paul Kehoe: Deputy Ó Ríordáin is up next.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020) Paul Kehoe: When the Minister and the Minister of State took up their new roles in the new Government they did not know what they were getting into. They faced many challenges. I acknowledge the officials in the Department of Education and, more importantly, the teaching staff, cleaners, secretaries and so on. In recent months, they have done a fantastic job of reopening schools and keeping them open....
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Further Revised) (12 Nov 2020) Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for their attendance today. Both will be appearing before the committee again next Tuesday to discuss their priorities and a number of other issues. It just so happens that they will be in the dock again next week and I hope they do not mind. I thank them for coming in today. We will suspend briefly to allow the next set of witnesses to take...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020) Paul Kehoe: I welcome the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, the Minister of State at the same Department, Deputy Niall Collins, who has responsibility for skills and further education, and their officials to this meeting. I thank them for the briefing documents which were provided in advance of the meeting. Before we begin, I must point out that...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020) Paul Kehoe: I ask the Minister to respond to the Deputy through the committee clerk.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020) Paul Kehoe: I welcome the establishment of the new Department. It is a great addition, specifically for higher education and third level. Has the Minister found a permanent residence yet or is he still hunting for space for headquarters for the Department? It is important because setting up a new Department is difficult. Will he update us on that?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (12 Nov 2020) Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and their officials for their constructive engagement at this meeting.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Message to Dáil (12 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2020: Vote 26 - Education and Skills, and Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education,...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (11 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of applications for PPS numbers at a company (details supplied); his plans to reduce the waiting times on these applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35473/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (11 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of applications for PPS numbers at a company (details supplied); his plans to reduce the waiting times on these applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35474/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress on a building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34527/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34549/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34577/20]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (10 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: The draft minutes of the meeting of 5 November have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Harold Hislop, chief inspector at the Department of Education; Mr. Dalton Tattan, assistant secretary general at the Department of Education; and Ms Andrea Feeney, CEO-designate of the State Examinations Commission and former director of the calculated grades executive office at the Department of Education. I will shortly ask Mr. Tattan to brief...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Mr. Tattan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: If the witnesses do not have time to answer in full, they can send a written reply to the Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: I ask Dr. Hislop to conclude. Next is Senator Pauline O'Reilly and she will be followed by Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education (10 Nov 2020)
Paul Kehoe: I ask Mr. Tattan to respond later, because I want to move on. I call Deputy Nolan.