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- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, this is a very serious issue.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: This is a very serious issue.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: This is a serious issue that requires the attention of every Deputy in this House. Unfortunately, the Tánaiste's response shows that he does not have a clue as to the impact this will have on special needs students from September. Nowhere in his response has he acknowledged that this will lead to a reduction of half an hour for almost every student in receipt of special teaching hours...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: Why will he not apply the same logic and give the same fair treatment-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: -----to students who have special educational needs?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: It defies logic-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: -----and it is entirely indefensible.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: In the past the Minister, Deputy Quinn, who is sitting beside the Tánaiste, admitted to mistakes and corrected them.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: When he targeted disadvantaged schools in a previous budget he admitted that he did not understand the impact of the cut. He apologised and subsequently reversed it.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: I am about to conclude. Regarding student grants, he apologised to students for the mistakes that had been made. I am asking the Tánaiste to admit that this is an indefensible mistake.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: It is 10% less than last year.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: Every child is being cut.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: A cut of 10% is being imposed on every child.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: Shameful. The Tánaiste is not addressing the impact of the cut.
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: On the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012, I note the Tánaiste is imposing a time limit and guillotining that Bill as well. I might just ask, particularly in light of the comments of the Chairman of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party yesterday, Deputy Charlie Flanagan, where he lamented the approach of the Government in guillotining so many Bills and the entire lack of any...
- An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: Deputy Harris is sharing time with Deputies Dara Murphy and Buttimer. Deputy Harris has seven and a half minutes.
- An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: That is agreed.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: I move:That Dáil Éireann:condemns:-- the deplorable announcement of cuts in special needs assistant supports and resource teacher hours for pupils with special educational needs; and -- the 12% cut in teaching time for special needs children to be implemented for the 2013-14 school year;notes that:-- this reduction comes on top of a reduction of 5% in 2012 and 10% in 2011; and --...
- Special Educational Needs: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan. I hope the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, will be present for this important debate on an issue that needs to be resolved by the Government. The motion I have moved calls on the Government to take two specific actions. First, it calls on the Government to reverse...
- Special Educational Needs: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: What about the 10% increase in demand?