Results 2,621-2,640 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Written Answers — Water Charges: Water Charges (12 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 618: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, arising from the Government decision of 4 January 2008 with respect to transitional arrangements for charging schools for water services, it is the intention of his Department to issue a circular to all local authorities directing them to comply with the terms of that announcement having regard to a...
- Written Answers — Water Charges: Water Charges (12 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 619: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps, in view of the joint presentation (details supplied) on the issue of water charges, that have been taken by his Department to co-operate in the implementation of the Government decision of 4 January 2008 to fix a [i]per capita[/i] charge of â¬3 per pupil for 2007, â¬3.50 per pupil for 2008 and...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (12 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 623: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm the month and year his Department received an application for precinct improvement works from a local authority (details supplied); when the local authority may accept a decision that the capital funding allocation has been made in order that it can make arrangements for the necessary and...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to improve entitlement in relation to back-dated payments. [5243/08]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he will address the anomalous position of carers over 66 years who are caring for more than one person but who receive a maximum of only approximately â¬20 more than a person caring for just one person who qualifies for an old age pension and half-rate carer's allowance. [5242/08]
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (13 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 348: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the technical assessment recommended by the commission on school accommodation has been completed for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5620/08]
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (13 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 349: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the technical assessment recommended by the commission on school accommodation has been completed for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5621/08]
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (13 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the technical assessment recommended by the commission on school accommodation has been completed for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5622/08]
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (13 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department and Fingal County Council have completed the steps to reserve a site for a post-primary school (details supplied) as recommended by the commission on school accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5623/08]
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (13 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 353: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department in conjunction with Fingal County Council, has acquired a site for a primary school (details supplied); the location of the site; the plans in place for the construction of a new school as recommended by the commission on school accommodation and the remainder of the site to be used for a 16 classroom school with...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (13 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 352: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the board of management of a primary school (details supplied) has made a formal application for an extension to the school to become an eight classroom school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5624/08]
- Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (14 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding provided by his Department for youth cafes; the location of this funding; the plans to increase such funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5589/08]
- Written Answers — Tourism Development: Tourism Development (14 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the meetings he has had or is proposing to have with the Department of Agriculture and Food in relation to the development of rural areas and with a specific view of developing agri-tourism; if he has granted funding in relation to such development; if so, the persons to whom and the amount of funding involved; and...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if in the context of the Good Friday Agreement she will explore the possibility of ensuring that a person (details supplied) who has split teaching experience in the public sector on both sides of the Border could have their reckonable service aggregated in order to maximise their pension entitlement; and if she will make a...
- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (14 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 244: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the time-scale for establishing the agreed country-wide regime for local authority levies for school waste refuse and water that would result in schools being treated as non-commercial premises and reduce operational charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5907/08]
- Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: A Cheann Comhairle, I am aware that your office has no responsibility for the replies given by Ministers to parliamentary questions but, as Ceann Comhairle, you have a responsibility to protect our rights, and one of the fundamental rights of an Opposition Deputy is to hold the Government to account. What do we do when the Minister for Education and Science gives answers to questions which,...
- Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: What redress do we have? There will be one period of Oral Questions to the Minister for Education and Science this session. Every other opportunity we have to ask questions is by way of written reply. I invite the Ceann Comhairle's office to examine the replies. In many questions with four component parts, one receives a reply to one with the other three being totally disregarded. What...
- Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Will you consider this point? I accept you have no responsibility for the content of the reply but, surely, you have some responsibility for a refusal to give any reply to a specific question. There is a distinction.
- Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: There is a long-standing precedent that Ministers answer questions put to them.
- Written Answers — Bullying in the Workplace: Bullying in the Workplace (19 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the operation of the equality and anti-bullying measures in the military in 2007. [6342/08]