Results 241-260 of 8,168 for speaker:Seán Crowe

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 449: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the anger and frustration at her decision to disband the advisory committee for the deaf and hard of hearing; and if there was any communication suggesting that the committee draw up a minority and majority report. [13233/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 450: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of persons on the NCSE tasked with advising her Department on policy matters and who come from a deaf or hard of hearing background in view of her decision to disband the advisory committee for the deaf and hard of hearing. [13234/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 451: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the effort she made as a newly appointed Minister to ensure that the advisory committee finalised its report in view of her decision to disband the committee; if her attention has been drawn to the two bodies of opinion shared by the committee; and if, in the absence of compromise, it was asked to come up with a majority and minority...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extra supports her Department plans to introduce in view of the long waiting list for parents looking to send their children to an all-Irish primary school in the Tallaght west area. [13123/05]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department sees a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1 playing any education role in future; and if funding will be made available for the refurbishment that is needed. [12749/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing crisis in public hospital accident and emergency departments as highlighted by the series of protests by the Irish Nurses Organisation, including the totally unacceptable situation in Tallaght Hospital (details supplied); and the measures that will be introduced in Tallaght...

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism how much State funding has been made available for the building of a proposed stadium in Tallaght; and the position regarding the proposed future and finishing of this project. [13188/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 299: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons claiming family income supplement and who submitted a claim for backdating but were refused due to the lack of knowledge clause, in each of the past five years. [13172/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 300: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the criteria laid down by his Department for social welfare officers when assessing clients who are receiving social welfare payments while actively seeking work; and the evidence such clients need to produce. [13223/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 301: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider submitting a supplementary budget to extend the fuel allowance for elderly and other persons in view of the winter conditions being experienced by clients. [13224/05]

Written Answers — Private Schools: Private Schools (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 439: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding she will be making available to fee paying schools in this year's budget. [13153/05]

Written Answers — Private Schools: Private Schools (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 440: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding from the school building fund she will be allocating to private fee paying schools in the next 12 months. [13154/05]

Written Answers — Private Schools: Private Schools (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the concern among many educationalists and others regarding her Department's continued funding of private paying schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13156/05]

Written Answers — Private Schools: Private Schools (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 443: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding she proposes to make available to private fee paying schools in her constituency; and if her Department has made a decision in regard to the building fund of private schools as outlined in recent media reports. [13157/05]

Written Answers — Private Schools: Private Schools (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 441: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding from her overall budget which goes to wages of staff of private fee paying schools. [13155/05]

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: It is not just politicians who are concerned by the proposed changes. People who live in the constituencies affected are also concerned. The impression might be given that it is just a matter of politicians looking after their own jobs, but there is a wider concern about many of the changes that are being proposed. It is important to put that on the record. We oppose the legislation because...

Class Sizes: Motion (Resumed). (27 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Last year, in the run up to the teachers' conferences, while the crisis in the education system bubbled and boiled to the surface, the former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Noel Dempsey, hummed and hawed about whether he would attend. When he attended the teachers' conferences, John Carr of the INTO summed up the feeling of its delegates when he said "It's class size Minister"....

School Staffing. (28 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the fact my colleague, Deputy O'Connor, has tabled a similar motion. We both live in the area — I in Raheen and he in Springfield. We are concerned that a school in which many in the area take great pride is under severe pressure and we seek to draw attention to its problems. The matter was raised last night during the debate on class sizes and it mirrors many of the problems...

Consultancy Contracts. (4 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: Does the Taoiseach accept that lessons have been learned from the Quigley report? What were those lessons? Will there now be fewer contracts between Departments and public relations companies? Is the Taoiseach comfortable with the amounts spent on these lavish PR exercises? One company was paid more than——

Consultancy Contracts. (4 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: I am making the point that some companies have been paid a fortune for this. Is the Taoiseach comfortable with that?