Results 861-880 of 17,012 for speaker:Paul Kehoe

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 1356. To ask the Minister for Health if equality of care can be offered to COPD sufferers without a medical card in order that they can access services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48784/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: We are now in public session. I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting. This is because they interfere with broadcasting equipment, even when in silent mode. Are the minutes of the meeting of 25 October 2023 agreed? Agreed. Today, we are meeting representatives of the active consent programme and the bystander intervention...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Dr. MacNeela and call Professor Crowley to speak now, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Do the witnesses have any final points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I have a question. As the witnesses are probably aware, the Minister, Deputy Foley, announced the establishment of new education and mental health practitioner posts and a pilot in primary schools. This was recommended by this committee following a visit to the UK's National Health Service and Department for Education. Where can the witnesses feed in regarding the role of practitioners in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I will allow members who wish to do so to ask one brief question each.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the witnesses for coming before us here today and sharing their insights, expert knowledge and expertise. On behalf of the committee, I commend all of them on the efforts to reach out to students across the education system. The work they do has a huge impact on the ground. They might not realise it, but it has a huge impact and we very much appreciate it. They will have taken...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Registration Tax (26 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a VAT number is required to tax a vehicle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47091/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a mechanism for junior certificate students to receive the percentage grades of their results to assist them in determining future subject choices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47033/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 188. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amount of funding approved in the previous round of the sports capital programme through OSCAR; the amount already drawn down by approved sporting organisations; the latest date for sporting organisations to draw down the approved funding; if failure to draw down previously approved funding could impact on approval of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (26 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of issues with the production of passports for foals; if steps are being taken to alleviate the backlog that is building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47095/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 267. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the options available for a private patient to access GP services when they have moved to a new area and have been refused by all local GP surgeries (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47046/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding is provided to a programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46998/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I wish to come in before we move on to Senator Dolan. My apologies as I was at another event this morning. On the schoolbooks scheme and recyclable schoolbooks, there are probably fewer in primary school, but are there textbooks that can be recycled back into the school system when students are finished with them? is that envisaged or has it been thought about? Even though I absolutely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: That will be part of the review being carried out. To echo the words of Deputy Ó Cathasaigh, I am hearing the very same thing from the smaller book suppliers as well. Parents would have come in during the summer months but now the smaller suppliers are being totally squeezed out. The bigger book companies are now taking the large majority of the market because of what is happening....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Will the witnesses come back to the secretariat with more information on that? The review has been raised a number of times.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Will Mr. O'Leary tell the Secretary General the committee is seeking an update on the status of the review and its expected publication date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Very briefly, Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: On those issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Does anyone have a reply on the counselling issues before-----