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- Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Deputy Burton is already making a show of herself.
- Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Parents do not want people like Deputy Burton making mileage out of this by attacking other Members. The key issue is-----
- Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: The Deputy is doing herself no favours by delaying this issue being brought to the Dáil. I would keep very quiet if I were her. A democratic decision was taken at a meeting of 300 people. People were glad to hear that the meeting went well. Unfortunately, I got a late invitation and was not aware that it was taking place. At the meeting, people heard that there would be an...
- Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will end the treatment of newly qualified teachers; and if he will report on discussions with the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, ASTI, on this matter. [28384/16]
- Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: This question relates to the ongoing inequality in the pay of different groups of teachers. Obviously, this applies to other public sector workers too. When will that pay inequality end? Will the Minister report on discussions he has had with the ASTI? Will he also respond in respect of the victimisation of members of the ASTI who will not now receive partial pay restoration because they...
- Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: There are three sets of pay scales operating in teaching. Whatever happened to equal pay for equal work? There are teachers who qualified after 2011 and 2012 who are doing exactly the same work as, but being paid less than, their counterparts in other classrooms who qualified earlier. How does the Minister justify that? That is why the ASTI is taking a stance. The ASTI is often told...
- Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his meeting with members of the Board of Management of a school (details supplied); the progress on the building project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28385/16]
- Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: My question is on St. Mochta's school which I have heard the Minister mention already. Since we raised this as a Topical Issue matter last week, a packed public meeting of parents and the community in Clonsilla has taken the decision to withdraw their children from school tomorrow and bring them here to the Dáil. Can the Minister give them good news tomorrow and save them doing it again?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: It was the Taoiseach's party that put it in.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: What committee will deal with it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry, Leas-Cheann Chomhairle, but which committee will the recommendations go to? Everybody has asked that question and it has not been answered. What Dáil committee will it go to?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: He thinks but he is not sure.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: He does not know what committee. Everybody has asked this question -----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: He does not know, he said.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: He thinks or there will be?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: Is it a case of balancing it up? It is usually the people who ask the questions who are prioritised.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the convening of the Citizens Assembly. [27085/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the convening of the Citizens Assembly which will discuss a number of proposed Constitutional Changes. [28716/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: That was a very short and scant-in-detail report on the Citizens Assembly. It seems that the Taoiseach is determined to go ahead with this charade. The word on the street is that it is a delaying tactic, a Craggy Island solution to a problem. It flies in the face of polls. The Taoiseach always eschews polls, yet the Government is using a polling company to pick 99 people. All of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (4 Oct 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: 36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the Union of Students in Ireland survey (details supplied) showing 87% of students feared leaving third level education due to the cost of education, he will implement policies to reduce the cost of education for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28387/16]