Results 19,841-19,860 of 23,995 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue
- Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Order, please. The debate will be through the chair.
- Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister, without interruption.
- Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister's 15 minutes is up.
- Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Topical Issue Debate: School Completion Programme (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister chose to do so. The Minister is going off topic.
- Topical Issue Debate: School Completion Programme (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Some of the language used in the Minister's response concerns me. On the ESRI review to be published shortly, the Minister indicated that he hoped it would assist in identifying the reforms necessary to consolidate the programme on a sustainable footing for the future. This is certainly not the language of someone who plans to expand the programme and bring the positive impact it has had in...
- Topical Issue Debate: School Completion Programme (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Both can be achieved.
- Topical Issue Debate: School Completion Programme (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter and the Minister for Health for coming in to respond.
- Topical Issue Debate: School Completion Programme (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I beg the Minister's pardon. The school completion programme, first introduced by a Fianna Fáil Government in 2002, has been identified as a model of best practice by the EU and the OECD as a targeted programme that increases retention rates in schools and reduces educational disadvantage. Unfortunately, under the current Government the programme has not received adequate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: ICT in Primary Schools: Discussion (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank our guests for coming in and making their presentations. At the moment there is a concerning lack of co-ordination on how digital technologies are being implemented and used to the best of a school's abilities at both primary and secondary level. People and students in their homes and businesses are outpacing what is happening in the classroom. That is a concerning situation....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: ICT in Primary Schools: Discussion (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I have a brief question for the Department. It indicated that under the new tendering process there will no satellite connections for primary schools. What might the arrangements be for those schools? A number of them are in peripheral locations. How will they be served and what type of broadband speeds can we expect them to have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: ICT in Primary Schools: Discussion (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I ask for elaboration on the plans for the retendering. Ms Murtagh indicated that 2,900 schools are to be retendered for next week. Are those schools on a fixed line or do some of them have satellite?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: ICT in Primary Schools: Discussion (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: The schools not included in the 2,900 are more peripheral, is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: ICT in Primary Schools: Discussion (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: For the 2,900 that will be retendered, Ms Murtagh is saying that satellite is not an option that is being accepted as part of the tender.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: ICT in Primary Schools: Discussion (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Is there a minimum requirement for speeds as part of that tender?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: ICT in Primary Schools: Discussion (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Will it be a wireless service, by and large?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of schools availing of funding from her Department for the provision of school lunches which have run out of funding for this academic year and have had to stop providing school lunches to children as a result; if her Department will provide these schools with funding in order that school lunches can be provided to the children for the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 31 March 2015, the name of the school to which she refers; the engagements her Department has had with this school to resolve the issue; the level of funding her Department will provide to this school in order that it can resume the provision of school lunches for its pupils for the remainder of this...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing Appeals Mechanism (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an appeal submitted by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal was not upheld; and if she will reconsider the decision not to uphold the appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17681/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (6 May 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the tendering arrangements for school transport, in view of a European Commission ruling (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17688/15]