Results 1-20 of 257 for cork speaker:Paul Kehoe

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I want to say to Ms Healy that I am delighted she came in and with the presentation she made. This committee did a lot of work with the Cork Life Centre. I am not sure if she has heard of it. There is one phrase that sums up the principle of it: one size does not fit all. The Cork Life Centre was closing down but this committee played its part in saving it. We visited it and met many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Kehoe: ...of funding going in is very welcome. There are a lot of students who leave sixth class at 17 or 18 years of age and go straight into third level education, whether they go to Limerick, Dublin, Cork, Galway, Maynooth or wherever that student chooses. It is predominantly female students affected by this. It is happening on the nights out rather than on campus but it is still very much...

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

Paul Kehoe: ...programme; Ms Sinéad McGrath, outreach specialist with the active consent programme; Professor Louise Crowley, professor of law and director of the bystander intervention programme at University College Cork, UCC; and Ms Celine Griffin, bystander intervention manager at the bystander intervention programme at UCC. The witnesses are present to discuss the consent programme in Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues in Higher and Further Education: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...as secondary school teachers at technological universities across the country. They could do part of their courses in a technological university and the other part in a university in Limerick, Cork, Galway or Dublin. Many families are struggling and, while the Government is doing a great deal to help them with the cost of living, we need to think outside the box and use technological...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...University, DCU; Dr. Margaret Leahy, head of the school of STEM education, innovation and global studies, Institute of Education, DCU; and Dr. Áine Hyland, emeritus professor of education, University College Cork, UCC. The witnesses are here to discuss the future of STEM in Irish education. The format of the meeting is that I will invite the witnesses to make brief opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2023)

Paul Kehoe: .... I agree with Mr. Convey's point about TUS appealing for more people to be able to participate in apprenticeship programmes. We have visited the technological universities in Limerick and Cork to see what is happening there. There is a lot done but more to do.

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

Paul Kehoe: ...One of their biggest challenges is the space, accommodation and the working areas. That is what we get back as a committee. Was Deputy Conway-Walsh with us in one of the colleges in Waterford or Cork?

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

Paul Kehoe: ...the technological universities. Another piece is required, which is the investment into the apprenticeship side of the technological universities. We have visited the institutions in Limerick and Cork, and we are due to visit Waterford. The strong message that comes is that Government investment that is needed into the apprenticeship side of those facilities. Many of them were built in...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: ...and her officials for coming in and for the constructive engagement. We will now suspend briefly. I have one further question just before we finish. It is an old hobby-horse of mine – the Cork Life Centre.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: How are the ongoing negotiations? I know the Minister and the Taoiseach met with the teachers and the board of the Cork Life Centre. Can she give us a brief update on where the Department is on that at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Annie Sheppard, Mr. Darragh Rawson and Ms Molly Hynes from Coláiste Bhríd in Wicklow. I also welcome Mr. Ryan Sharpe and Ms Tami O'Leary from the Cork Life Centre and Mr. Hugh Ahern from the Patrician Academy in County Cork. Most of the witnesses have appeared before the committee at this stage. Ms O'Leary is a new recruit, and I think the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: Absolutely. I will go to the Cork Life Centre. Both Ryan and Tami spoke about the stigma attached to reaching out for help in the school environment. What steps do they think might assist in tackling that stigma around reaching out for help and being comfortable in doing it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: ...the people beside her have been here before and knew what it was like. Well done to her; she should be very proud of herself for having the confidence to come in here. Don O'Leary and all in the Cork Life Centre should be very proud of her and I know they are; as are her family. I praise all of their families and teachers as well. Having their teachers coming here with them is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Kehoe: .... Second, what collaboration has the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Department of Housing had with the likes of Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Cork City Councils where some of our bigger third level institutions have real issues in trying to accommodate students? The financial contribution the Government gave back to students in the...

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

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, and her officials. The Minister is before the committee to discuss: the Cork Life Centre and the Review of Out-of-School Education Provision report; progress made in implementing the recommendations in the joint committee reports entitled, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health, and Leaving Certificate Reform: The need for a...

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

Paul Kehoe: I have a question about Cork Life Centre and the out-of-school education provision review being undertaken in the Minister's Department. When it was published, in May, a number of factual inaccuracies regarding Cork Life Centre were raised. At the time, the Minister committed to amending it and addressing the issues. Where are we in that regard?