Carey, PatTuesday, 26 April 2005 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed).
Question put: “That the words proposed to be deleted stand.”
Voted Yes 
Amendment put.
Voted No
Private Members’ Business - Class Sizes: Motion.
I am pleased to have an opportunity of speaking on this motion and supporting the Government’s amendment.
There is a danger that this debate will turn into a cruinniú na múinteoirí.
It is also important to look at the educational landscape in the mid-1990s. Many Members present will remember when the teaching unions asked for innovative schemes to enable teachers to take an exten...
When the Government took office, it was incumbent on it to introduce what had been long sought. I remember union congress after congress looking for an education Act. Such a step was necessary to unde...
Capitation funding for secondary schools was nearly €40 million. At the primary level the figure came to €52 million. In 2004 the provisional outturn for secondary schools was almost €109 million and ...
That is just the figure for capitation funding alone.
I have the figures for 1994 also. It was €31.5 million for secondary schools and €48 million for primary schools.
One does not need to have a degree in mathematics to see the exponential increase in education spending. To take another example, that of 1,000 special teachers in 108 schools, last year the total cos...
Let us look at the issue of class size. What the Minister stated was important. It was not good but I taught classes with figures in excess of 55. I also taught classes as small as 16. There is an opt...
Absolute expenditure has increased.
Government policies have transformed——
Written Answers - International Agreements.
Asked the minister: the possible economic effects of the new economic partnership agreements with the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries with particular regard to the negotiation process on the least developed econ...
Asked the minister: if he will elaborate on the role of the European Union in supporting the growth and development of economies in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Asked the minister: if he will make a statement on the possible effects of Ireland’s aid policies under the EU’s new economic partnership agreements with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
Asked the minister: his views on the possible positive changes which the terms of the new economic partnership agreements with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries particularly regarding free trade of intellectual pr...
Written Answers - Community Development.
Asked the minister: if any discussions here taken place with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment to develop and extend a model of community support along the lines of the community employment schemes; his p...
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