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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I have a question around special educational needs organisers, SENOs. A person could get a private assessment by someone who is well qualified and which cost parents a lot of money only for the SENO to completely rubbish that private assessment despite that SENO having no qualification. Most SENOs do not have the qualification but maybe some do, I am open to being corrected on that. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Paul Kehoe: The minutes of our previous meeting are agreed. On behalf of the committee, I welcome: Dr. Padraig Walsh, chief executive, Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI; Ms Ginny Hanrahan, chief executive and registrar of CORU; Professor Orla Sheils, vice-provost and chief academic officer of Trinity College Dublin, representing the Irish Universities Association, IUA; Ms Mary McHugh,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Kehoe: The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is applying funding to promotion regarding fly tipping and everything like that. I cannot understand why it cannot provide some minimal funding to advertise in the farming papers, be that agriland.ie, Irish Farmers Journalor the national farming media or local papers regarding this. It is a total failure on the Department's part....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Professor Barbara Dooley, deputy president and acting registrar at UCD and chair of the IUA registrars group, representing the Irish Universities Association; Ms Treasa Fox, head of the student counselling service at the Athlone campus of the Technological University of the Shannon, TUS, representing the Technological Higher Education Association,...

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

Paul Kehoe: I thank Deputy Barry. Before I call the next speaker, I will comment along the same train of thought. Are there many centres similar to Cork Life Centre across the country? I am not sure of any of them. Do they have the same challenges as Cork Life Centre in losing staff? I am following a thread from Deputies Barry, Pádraig O'Sullivan and Ó Laoghaire. The centre lost staff at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020: Discussion (1 Feb 2022)

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Michael Redmond, director of research and development at the Joint Managerial Body, JMB; Mr. Paul Crone, director of the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals, NAPD; Ms Eileen O'Rourke, general secretary of the National Association of Boards of Management in Special Education, NABMSE; Mr. Pat McKelvey, director of schools at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I note Deputy Paudie O'Sullivan is not online and that Deputy Nolan, Senator Pauline O'Reilly, Deputy Jim O'Callaghan and Senator Mullen were all here on the last day. The members who were not here on the last day had a number of questions. I will allow the two Deputies back in. I have two quick questions. The Department's statement on new and revised curricular specifications includes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (22 Jul 2021)

Paul Kehoe: I thank both Deputy O’Sullivan and the Minister for those exchanges. On a number of points, I notice, like Deputy Ó Cathasaigh and O’Sullivan have, that most of the questions have been already asked. I have a question on antigen testing but the Minister has already answered that. In fairness, there has been a great amount of research and I commend all of the colleges...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (22 Jul 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Before we call on Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan, I compliment the Minister. It is very welcome that people will have an opportunity to learn on-site. I compliment all the third level institutions over the past number of months in doing this. One issue that has come up before the committee over the past 12 months is mental health and I welcome the funding the Minister has mentioned there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effects of Covid-19 on Further Education and Training: Discussion (10 Dec 2020)

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Andrew Brownlee, CEO of SOLAS, Ms Cróna Gallagher, director of further education and training with Donegal Education and Training Board, representing Education and Training Boards Ireland, ETBI, and Ms Carol Hanney, CEO of City of Dublin Education and Training Board. Our witnesses are with us today to discuss the very important issue of the...

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....

Seanad: Defence Matters: Statements (9 Jul 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I constantly restate Ireland's policy position on neutrality and ensure that it is reflected in European policy, which respects every country's position. I will continue to do this. The Senator spoke about the new President-elect of the European Commission, Ms von der Leyen, who has recently been appointed. I know her well. She is a former defence Minister. If there is to be a European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: White Paper on Defence Update: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I am not familiar with A Better World. I am not aware of any engagement. I may revert to the Deputy on that. The White Paper update steering group has met at least monthly since the updating commenced last July. Meetings are chaired by a relevant assistant secretary and are attended by the assistant chief of staff and the heads of the Department's planning and organisation branch and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: White Paper on Defence Update: Discussion (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: To date, the Defence Forces have been able to honour all asks by the Government, at home or overseas. The Deputy referred to operations abroad and perhaps assisting abroad where there is a catastrophe. At present, where we are on peacekeeping duties we reach out into the communities. The Deputy also referred to the reorganisation and the number of engineers. We reduced from three...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Discussion (24 Jan 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputy mentioned lorries full of equipment but if we did not send that out and if something happened to a member of the Defence Forces, I would be in the Dáil being asked why members of the Defence Forces were not given right and proper equipment on overseas peacekeeping duties. The complexities of peacekeeping have changed totally over the years. Those personnel are still very...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 May 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I thank all the Deputies for their considered input to tonight's thought-provoking debate on this important subject. As the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, outlined, he has given much thought to the key intention of this Bill, which is to prevent harm to the most vulnerable. As a society, we must always be concerned with those who are most in need of protection and it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)

Paul Kehoe: It is probably up to the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to give an address to the committee on Brexit. That is up to the Chairman and the members of the committee. On Ireland and the role of the peacekeepers, I have addressed this in replying to the other contributors who asked questions on the same issue. As a former Minister, Deputy Barrett was honoured and privileged to see our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council: Defence and Related Matters (26 Apr 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I wish to mention an issue Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan raised with me. She spoke about the Defence Forces working with humanitarian organisations. The Defence Forces had a mission exercise last week in Athlone, Exercise Viking, in which it worked with seven or eight different humanitarian organisations, aid agencies and so forth and it worked very well. I hope we can further explore the...