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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: No, I am asking whether the Minister is saying that there are ongoing governance issues right at this moment in time.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: The Minister said that she was at a loss to understand why the council did not communicate with her Department. As Minister, did she reach out to the group?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: But did the Minister try to reach out?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: I differ with the Minister on that.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: I feel that the Minister's decision is wrong and that the withdrawal of funding sends out the wrong message to secondary school parents and their associations up and down the country. I understand from the council that its governance issues have been overcome and that there was-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: Perhaps the Minister should look to some of the officials in her own Department to see if there were also issues on that side. I ask the Minister to meet with the NPCPP to discuss whatever issues it has with the Department and her officials if there are issues there. Speaking on behalf of many parents who have real concerns about this issue, I urge the Minister to do that.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: I am not saying the Minister does not. I never said that.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: Has the Minister sat down with the primary school association to discuss this?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: Will the Minister commit to sending the committee details of all departmental education reviews being undertaken at the moment and the proposed deadlines for completion of each? It would be very much appreciated. In the context of oversight, the Minister may recall the committee report on school bullying and the impact it has on mental health. Her Department has since launched a...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: What I am saying is that it would have been appreciated if committee members had been invited to the launch because they put a lot of work into this issue and much of their work was included in the plan the Department published. I have one final question.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: That is okay. We had the building unit before the committee last week. The Department's purchase of a site in County Wexford has been going on for two years and now no school will ever be built on the site. This is unfortunate because both the vocational school and the Educate Together primary school in Wexford town have now been delayed by more than two years. It is very unfortunate...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: Will the Department be applying for planning permission for a school on that site?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: I understand that but will the Department be submitting a planning application in respect of a school on that site?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: Is there anything the Minister's Department can do about what is going on in Wilson's Hospital School in Westmeath? I have no doubt this is affecting the welfare and education of the students in the school. There is probably very little the Minister can do, but what is happening is outrageous.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: Okay. Media Literacy Ireland noted in a statement last week its concerns regarding the tackling of disinformation and stated that more should be happening in secondary schools to educate students on the increase in the number of conspiracy theories. It used Covid-19 as an example. Media Literacy Ireland stated that there should be specific training in schools to equip students for the...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Message to the Dáil (8 Feb 2023)
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 Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2023: Vote 26 — Department of Education
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: I find it bizarre that such an important organisation, which represents secondary schools across the island of Ireland, would have its funding withdrawn by the Minister without the final publication of the review. Who will take up the slack? What organisation will represent secondary schools?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: I still think that it is a mistake to withdraw funding without proper negotiation with-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: I will speak very clearly. Perhaps the Minister could see if there are issues between officials in the Minister's Department and the NPCPP that she is not aware of. I am not aware of any but I suggest the Minister should meet with the president and officials from the NPCPP to see what its issues are. It is my understanding that the Minister has not officially met with the group and I...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister and her officials for the constructive engagement this evening. On behalf of the committee, I send our condolences to the family of Niamh Bhreathnach and to the Labour Party. She was a former Minister for Education and left her mark in that Department. That concludes the select committee's consideration of the Revised Estimates on Vote 26.