Quinn, RuairíThursday, 6 May 2010 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Order of Business
We cannot get it any other way.
Question put: “That the proposal for dealing with No. a11 be agreed to.”
Voted No
Private Members’ Business - Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed)
Amendment put.
Voted No
Question put: “That the motion, as amended, be agreed to.”
Voted No
Priority Questions - School Patronage
Asked the minister: if she will establish, without prejudice, a national forum on patronage in primary schools, as suggested by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Cat...
It did not take them long to house-train the Tánaiste. That is the most disappointing response I have heard from someone with the Tánaiste’s experience and maturity. I would have thought that as a m...
The Catholic Church does not do democracy. It does not consult with its community; it informs its community. There is no procedure to which one can refer where the Catholic members of a parish are i...
So the people who live in built-up areas do not have a choice.
As the question stated.
That is my question.
Hence the forum.
With all the stakeholders.
Never on this issue.
In the Minister’s second reply, she stated the Archbishop of Dublin is the biggest individual patron of schools in the country. Each bishop is a patron in his own right and is able to give a differen...
Why is the Minister so frightened of a forum?
Other Questions - Multi-denominational Schools
I thank the Minister for her reply. Is she aware that the group she mentioned has referred to her Department a comprehensive letter setting out a series of questions on the constitutionality and lega...
I accept what the Minister is saying. I will undertake to make available to her the correspondence, and if I do so the Minister might be in a position to respond directly to me.
I am concerned about the quality of the briefing material provided to the Minister. It is not within her remit to be directly informed by our own actions; I would not impose that on anybody. If the ...
No.
It was not.
Other Questions - School Utility Services
I ask the Minister of State and the Minister to confirm that yesterday, the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills told us the HEA and a group of colleges within the authority had come togethe...
On foot of the Minister of State’s response, will he write to all of the primary school patrons and bring their attention to this discussion?
He is not unapproachable.
The Minister of State might send correspondence as encouragement.
We will await the results.
Other Questions - School Curriculum
I am fascinated by the reply. Why did the Tánaiste raise this hare if she cannot do it? The common understanding, certainly mine, was to the effect that, if someone got 55 points in honours maths, t...
And points are an incentive they understand.
Every maths student would move up.
The Tánaiste was hardly a wet week in her current job and she had plenty of ministerial experience when she endorsed a recommendation by the innovation committee that was supported by myself and many ...
Other Questions - Institutes of Technology
Absolutely.
There would be no need to provide money up front in respect of that decision.
Other Questions - Departmental Agencies
I thank the Tánaiste for her reply. Do I take it that the Secretary General in her Department is the responsible Accounting Officer?
The Tánaiste will be haunted by FÁS for longer than she thought.
Other Questions - Pupil-Teacher Ratios
The Department gets the figures for pupils in October and gets the figure for the number of teachers the following June. That is some system.
Written Answers - Irish Language
Asked the minister: the expenditure per year by his Department for the preparatory course for Irish language lawyer-linguist positions in the European institutions run by institutions (details supplied) since the creati...
Written Answers - Departmental Funding
Asked the minister: if she will confirm reports from attendees at the labour market activation fund briefing on 18 March 2010 that two separate question and answer sessions took place due to the unexpected number of att...
Asked the minister: the consultation that took place with private and public sector organisations or associations concerning the labour market activation fund prior to its announcement in budget 2009; the name of each o...
Written Answers - Appointments to State Boards
Asked the minister: the selection procedure for appointing teacher training college board members on the Teaching Council; the reason all teacher training colleges in Ireland are not represented on the Teaching Council;...
Asked the minister: the appointment procedure for the two positions nominated by colleges of education on the Teaching Council; if she will outline the way that the third level bodies are selected for the nomination of ...
Written Answers - Departmental Funding
Asked the minister: if she will provide the details of all private colleges that have received funding from the special education support service and the teaching education section of the Department of Education and Ski...
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