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Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: This is incredible. If the Minister was running any kind of management organisation, she would be in serious trouble at this stage. To say that the information is not readily available is unbelievable, having regard to the fact that she established a building unit specifically to study this issue. If I put this question down for a written reply, over which I have no control, in a...

Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I ask the Minister please not to abuse her position by blaming the boards of management in individual schools.

Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: We and the Minister's backbench are inundated by schools who cannot get any kind of answer on whether to go ahead with a proposal. Her Department has the information and she refuses to make it readily available. She will not even give me a commitment to go through the 3,200 odd files in two weeks. If the Minister could say four weeks, I could live with that, but she refuses to give the...

Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: This is a diversion.

Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: That reply is worthy of the Kremlin.

Public Private Partnerships. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for her reply, and I know it is a complex area. Do I understand that she will not be able to answer the questions, specifically Question No. 104, as to the effective rate of interest until the third quarter of this year?

Public Private Partnerships. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: When will that be?

Public Private Partnerships. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: As regards the first bundle, the tenders will be in by the autumn of this year, so as not to confuse two numbers, and the tender price will include the rate of interest the PPP tenderer proposes to charge.

Public Private Partnerships. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Can the Minister give me an undertaking that she will have that information available in the autumn, and not reply to the effect that it is a matter for the NTFA and has nothing to do with her Department?

Public Private Partnerships. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I have never been here before.

Public Private Partnerships. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: They were not necessarily procured through the NDFA, were they?

Public Private Partnerships. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: This is my point, in the interests of transparency. No doubt the Minister's officials will advise that if this is left to the NDFA I cannot ask questions from that body because it is outside the remit of parliamentary questions, in which case the Minister has no responsibility. I am trying to establish whether it is cheaper to use the traditional capital programme of the State by borrowing...

Public Private Partnerships. (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: On the information available to the Minister, is the interest rate she quoted a fixed interest rate over the 25 years or a variable rate?

Agency Workers: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has completed the technical assessment of a school (details supplied) as recommended by the Commission on School Accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6069/08]

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the increased burden on teaching principals in primary schools, she has proposals to change the basic contract whereby her Department would award teaching principals with a principal's salary in addition to an allowance for their additional teaching duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6071/08]

Written Answers — Capitation Grants: Capitation Grants (20 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the analysis in the paper Profile of Basic Running Costs in Primary Schools that the capitation grant covers approximately 50% of the school running cost (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6076/08]

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Could we revisit that?

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is very silent. What is his view?

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (21 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her views on whether it is appropriate to come out in support of a bio-fuel refinery in County Wexford in advance of an application for planning permission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7100/08]