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Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (23 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 251: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of revenue his Department estimated the third level registration fee raised per academic year at its current level of €900; his estimates on the revenues expected to be raised by increasing the registration fee to €1,500 in the academic year 2009/2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36607/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (23 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of money he has saved by deferring the implementation of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; the amount he envisaged would have had to be spent in the next two years if full implementation were to be achieved by October 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36608/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (23 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 253: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be provided to start building a new school (details supplied) in County Mayo which was approved in 2006, and as recent as September 2008 was seen by his Department as progressing to tender; the reason in the past few weeks, he has put the tendering process on hold; when the tendering process will resume; and if he...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (23 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 274: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action his Department is taking to ensure adequate provision of special needs care for children who wish to attend preschool; his views on the needs of persons (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36679/08]

Health and Safety Issues. (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he will take to ensure that ex-miners are compensated for the health problems they have suffered after years of exposure to coal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37131/08]

Order of Business (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: It is a vindictive act.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I move: That Dáil Éireann deplores the series of educational cuts announced in the budget and subsequently by the Minister for Education and Science; expresses its serious concern at the damage these cuts will cause to the education system and to the future prospects of our children; and calls on the Government, in particular, to reverse the decision to increase class sizes at first and...

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: It is an attack upon our children, the most vulnerable in our society. It is an attack on our future because our children will be the generation who will guide us into old age and they will care for us as we have done for our parents. It is an attack on our young generation. Think of it. It pushes many shy, insecure young four year old children into classes with more than 30 other...

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister, Ministers of State, members of Fianna Fáil and, God love them, the Green Party——

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Labour is not trying to score political points, nor are we trying to bring down the Government in this motion. We simply want to change that element of the budget that affects education. We share the views expressed by the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Education and Science, Deputy Paul Gogarty of the Green Party, who said recently, and which might have been in the letter received by...

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: It is the Minister who is being outrageous.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Government is spending less percentage-wise.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister. That is my job.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Tell that to the parents and teachers outside.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister should ask the principals and the boards of management.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister should meet with the principals and the boards of management.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Those were different times.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister cannot go backwards like that.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: That was a different time.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: No one said that. It is the number of children in the class that is the problem.