Quinlan, Patrick MichaelThursday, 12 December 1968 |
Seanad Eireann Debate
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Order of Business.
I am sure we are all anxious to facilitate the Taoiseach but the position regarding the Appropriation Bill is most unsatisfactory. Perhaps we could arrive at a compromise by which we could give the Fi...
Perhaps a good deal of the debate could be transferred over to a debate on the NIEC report which is open for discussion?
Finance (No. 2) Bill, 1968 (Certified Money Bill) :Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages.
The present Bill, open as it has been left to include the Appropriation Bill, provides an almost bewildering scope for adverting to some of the problems that affect the country. To begin with we can ...
I hope there will be a solid plank in the Fine Gael programme for the next election on the committee system. The third major dangerous tendency we see being adopted at the moment is the frightening i...
I do not think that the members of any university are against rationalisation. All are interested in doing the job they have been trained to do for the betterment of this country. I would recommend ...
I am speaking of the new constitutions.
When it comes to that I think we will no longer have the deplorable situation where the board wants one policy and the majority of the academic staff wants another and the board insist on its policy. ...
I am not speaking of the constitutions of the moment but of the future constitutions. Our academics will be in the majority on the future governing bodies and surely they will have the ruling voice i...
There is also the question of our five medical faculties. I suggest that if we find we have more places in the medical faculties than we reasonably need we should make those places available to forei...
Yes, and they deserve to be congratulated on it and they have received little encouragement from the Government for doing it. If every foreign student brings in at least £1,000 per annum in fees and ...
So apparently we are using different words altogether when we deal with Government Departments on what constitutes consultation and what constitutes an agreement. Unless we can rectify that, can we st...
It could have been improved. Life is one series of tests and we cannot educate children into believing that real tests need not be faced in life.
Practically all educational authorities have rejected the new grouping system introduced into the Leaving Certificate, and see it as an effort to water down the Leaving Certificate so that any student...
Mr. O'Connor in his article states, concerning entrance examinations, that the National University accepts for matriculation only those subjects in which courses are offered in the university. That i...
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