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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (7 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of an application for a retrofit grant for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11072/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for an extension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11079/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the 2023 horticultural grants will be opened for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11149/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Apologies have been received from Deputies Rose Conway-Walsh and Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire. I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when on silent mode. Are the minutes of the meeting of 28 February agreed? Agreed. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Paul Crone,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: On classroom teaching and the practical learning of subjects, students often enjoy the practical side more than the theory side but of course there must be both. Can STEM subjects be made more attractive with more practical work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee I welcome: Mr. Frank Jones, general secretary of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, IFUT; Máirín Ní Chéileachair, head of education and research and assistant general secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, INTO; Ms Moira Leydon, assistant general secretary, education and research, from the Association of Secondary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (2 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to consult with small independent retailers whose main business is the supply of schoolbooks in advance of the introduction of free books to primary schools, in order to give them time to plan for the 2023-2024 term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10643/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of disability allowance means for a person (details supplied); when the payment will increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10654/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (2 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students studying for a qualification (details supplied) qualify for the reduced fee contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10683/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (2 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can reconsider the rules excluding robotics farmers from the new TAMS scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10599/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (2 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider including agricultural and farm contractors in the new targeted agricultural modernisation scheme (TAMS 3); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10747/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: In a written submission from the University of Galway, one academic noted there were only 34 qualified computer science teachers in Ireland. I am interested in our guests' views on that. Is there any proposition or proposal for remedying this issue? What is the availability of computer science in most secondary schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Yes. There is a lead-in time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I thank our guests for coming before the committee. The discussion has been beneficial and productive to our ongoing work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I will ask the representatives about their experience of how we promote apprenticeships. Do students see an apprenticeship as difficult, hard work? Do they wish to work in offices and have a 9 to 5? The student has totally changed from my time or the representatives' time. We have a more softened society now, with our younger generation. When I was younger, as I presume was the case for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Dr. Gormley is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: The mothers of Ireland get children up for school and get them ready and out the door. They get that from their mothers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: What we heard from colleges is that these facilities were built back in the 1970s and 1980s for the population of that time, rather than the population now and the number of apprenticeships we need to go through the colleges. These colleges say they have to do an awful lot more online, to be able to facilitate the students in their workshops and the practical work. One of their biggest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: It is a big issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM, in Irish Education: Discussion (28 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: That is especially so with a State company.