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- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: What needs to be done is-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----to look at the projections for the number of years ahead for every school-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and say to people, if the trend continues, that the population of school-going children is dropping in many localities in rural Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: This has got to be examined in the context of what we must do for the future. Do we provide incentives for communities in order that they will want to continue with the school if it becomes a one-teacher school-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----or should the school consider amalgamating with another school? These are issues that need to be addressed.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: There are many parishes in my own county where the number of eligible children of school-going age has dropped away completely.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is not like it used to be a hundred years ago, when schools were built within walking distance. It is all very different now. Population numbers are way down in many areas.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I accept that this issue is of great importance to people all over the country.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: An enrolment Bill is coming before the Dáil in the not too distant future. We need to look to the longer term and to the future of the numbers in these schools. I thank the Deputy for raising the question.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Fleming for that. Clearly, school-going populations have dropped in quite a number of areas, particularly on the west coast. I know of one location where nine schools have closed over the past 30 years because of depopulation. I have spoken to the Minister for Education and Skills about this important issue. Clearly, there is an issue here in respect of teachers themselves...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Is that in the best interests of the children from an educational point of view? Obviously, there is a very strong feeling for the school situation in any locality.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: I attended a two-teacher school many years ago.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: There is a great strength in having the local entity. The Minister is acutely aware of this.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: She is very conscious of the impact of the situation for rural Ireland. Obviously, she is considering the position. I thank the Deputy for the points he has raised. As I said, they were raised with me by Deputy Griffin the other day. It is an issue that we will address.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 19, motion re appointment of Ombudsman for Children; No. 1, Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 7, Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings in relation to No. 19 shall, if not...
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The education admissions Bill is for this session. Deputy Martin will have many opportunities to state his case and his propositions to deal with it. I will have to come back to the Deputy in respect of his question about the health issue.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes. I will come back to the Deputy on that.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: The education admissions Bill is for this session. I will come back to the Deputy on the other one.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: On the contrary, what the Deputy has just read out shows just how serious the Government is abut introducing a raft of very necessary legislation. Many of these things are quite complex, as Deputy Adams will agree. The mediation Bill is later this year. The Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill is awaiting Report Stage. The Legal Services Regulation Bill is awaiting Report Stage.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Enda Kenny: As to the question of the health Bill, which the Deputy mentioned in respect of the Minister for Health, the Minister is just formulating the proposition. I do not have a date for that, nor could I, because we have to wait and see the draft heads that the Minister will bring forward in that regard. So, contrary to what the Deputy says, there is actually an unprecedented amount of work going...