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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is a much more satisfactory answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Will there be a public consultation on the comprehensive all-inclusive strategy within the next month?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Very good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I want to discuss the Cork Life Centre. Did the Department was approached by the centre in the context of correcting some statistics contained in the review that were believed to be erroneous? Is it true that the Department accepted the centre's view and has corrected those statistics in the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Does that include the number of people who were in a position to sit the leaving certificate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Am I correct in saying that the conclusions contained in the report were not amended, despite the fact that the evidence upon which they were based was considerably different?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The review has some shortcomings. It is strange to have an out-of-school review that did not take into account Youthreach given that it is the largest element of what we typically associate with being the non-traditional school sector. Is it true that among the out-of-school education providers, which were part of the review, several have full-time teachers working full-time hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I take the Minister's reply to mean yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, and that is why there was a review.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Am I correct in saying that the staff in the life centre are on co-operation hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is welcome. In terms of how we get to where we need to go regarding the life centre and the stability that is required, progress is welcome. However, it is not the final outcome. Can the Minister confirm that co-operation hours are not tied to increments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Can a person gather increments toward his or her pension or salary over the course of several years? Can a person's pay increase on an incremental scale while on co-operation hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Very well. That is a key matter. The funding is welcome. Co-operation hours do provide a service. Ultimately, however, anyone teaching in an institution like the centre - and a person may view teaching as a vocation and be very committed to the institution - is entitled to consider what that to which I refer is going to mean for them and their pension in the long term. Institutions like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, I acknowledge that co-operation hours are common across a whole variety of these organisations but, typically, they complement full-time or at least full-time Department-funded staff. That is not what is being done in the life centre at this point in time and the situation is quite different.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have several questions and I must interrupt the Minister. It seems that no real progress has been made with providing a comprehensive strategy that unites all strands. Has progress been made?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tax Code (6 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal basis for an administrative agreement with the Revenue Commissioners that while home tutors are subject to class S PRSI that is self-employed for Department of Social Protection-purposes, income tax and PRSI are deducted under the PAYE system; and if she will supply a copy of the agreement to this Deputy. [49267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in processing an application for the operation of a school (details supplied). [49281/22]

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ba mhaith liom tacaíocht a thabhairt don rún seo. Tá sé ciallmhar ó thaobh na todhchaí, na timpeallachta, tráchta agus costas teaghlaigh agus oibre. This is a significant time for public transport. My home city of Cork is one of the areas in which there will be a big focus on trying to shift people from relying on their cars to using public transport...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Oct 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that special schools are not sanctioned for the post of home school liaison officer. [48665/22]