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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: We said we would deal with each subhead separately but it probably makes more sense for Deputies to make their points.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: It is to be welcomed that the amount of the Supplementary Estimate is less than in previous years. On subhead A3, which relates to school salaries, the Minister referred to some of the funding going into a supply panel. Such panels are always welcome. The committee made recommendations regarding the possibility of setting up supply panels to support teaching principals at primary level....
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank the Minister. The committee examined DEIS but his proposal to consult us is very helpful.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: Just on that point, I also mentioned the possibility of supply panels for teaching principals. Does the Minister want to comment on that?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: We had an opportunity to debate this last Thursday evening with the Minister. We need to understand the huge administrative burden on teaching principals at primary school, being leaders of education within the schools, having to deal with the board of management and parents, as well as all of the things that can go wrong in the building. One of our recommendations was that they have one...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: The Irish Primary Principals' Network, IPPN, has come out in support of it.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: It could have been done on the Friday before the Monday in late September.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: We played our part in that last week as well.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: We do not have much time for supplementary questions. I will accommodate Deputy McLoughlin but I remind everybody that we must vacate this room by 12 noon.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: We are here to discuss the Estimates.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: I am a very fair Chairman in terms of giving everybody an opportunity to speak and I am always fair to the Minister as well so I urge the Deputy not to criticise me.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: I asked the Deputy when he arrived whether he would like to speak and he replied "No".
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: Let me be very clear. The Deputy had an opportunity to speak before I returned to the Minister but he said "No".
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: And I let the Deputy speak at this stage.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: Please do not criticise me about that either.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: If the Deputy had been present at the start of this meeting, he would have heard me say that we are dealing with the Supplementary Estimates.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: The Deputy has had plenty of time to talk about Sligo.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: We need to out of this room by 12 o'clock. I want to give the Minister an opportunity to respond to the Deputy and then I will conclude the meeting.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: If we do not complete this meeting by 12 o'clock, we cannot have a vote and, therefore, cannot send a message to the Dáil. Certain procedures need to happen.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2019) Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank the Deputy. I ask the Minister to please respond to Deputy McLoughlin in just 30 seconds because we need to have a vote.