Results 301-320 of 371 for speaker:Michael Conaghan
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Michael Conaghan: A member can come in six times with six questions compared to a member who has one question.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Michael Conaghan: Anyway, the contributions of Deputies O'Brien and McConalogue were very interesting. I know it takes a long time for money to get up to Donegal. That is a big issue-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Michael Conaghan: -----because I am from there.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Michael Conaghan: I welcome the Minister, the Minister of State and the officials. I commend the Minister on her dedication, work and enthusiasm. She is a natural in that job. I want to refer to two or three items. I wish to refer to her support and enthusiasm for things that are sometimes not given the impetus and notice they ought to get. These include apprenticeships, literacy, SNAs, school buildings...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Michael Conaghan: Some of them have been to Hollywood.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Michael Conaghan: And that the curriculum is delivered.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Projects (11 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: 29. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of our mediocre record as a country in valuing, protecting, conserving, and presenting our industrial heritage as a significant cultural tourism product, if her Department will set out and articulate a plan for a tangible and appropriate record of this sphere of our past; her views that two adjacent sites in County Dublin...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (24 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: 685. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a specific mandatory standard to require the National Referral Centre for Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 to collect and publish each quarter, data on the outcome, morbidity and mortality, for patients who suffer aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage, who are brought to hospitals where neurosurgery and endovascular treatment...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (24 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: 686. To ask the Minister for Health the number and which of the 43 recommendations (details supplied) submitted to the Health Service Executive in 2009 have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11865/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: I welcome the Minister of State and his staff. In terms of the Minister of State's life experience, the issues of working conditions and fairness at work give him great credibility in bringing in the reforms and initiatives in which he is currently engaged, including this one. A commentator in the UK remarked that the minimum wage is a wage floor, not a living wage. Would the Minister of...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Hear, hear.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: In reaching this decision, has the Department examined comparable practices in other countries or guidelines on what has worked in other countries? These issues must be dealt with in every country and I am sure various practices, guidelines and perspectives have been drawn up in other areas. Have the officials looked at those on a comparative basis?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: I share the concern but all concerns should not find their way into legislation. There are other ways to solve these issues.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: It is happening-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: -----but putting it into law does not make that much of a difference.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: I believe it can be dealt with just-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Is this where a teacher is temporarily removed?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Is it clear that is the meaning of the term?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Yes.