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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise for interrupting but this needs clarification. Mr. MacGabhann is talking about four years for the basic degree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is he talking about the higher diploma in education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It depends on the basic degree. Some of the basic degrees might be three years long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Of at least one year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I accept that point. It was the mention of six versus five years that I had a query about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise for missing a small part of the beginning of the session. I have two or three different points to make. I will start with adult learners. NALA is making a very strong case. Adult learners have a history of being forgotten and we omit providing for them in the legislation at our peril. If literacy problems are not sorted out early, they will come back to bite us later on as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of clarification, I acknowledge the difficulty resulting from the fact that nine hours spread over the week wipes out a person's opportunities for other benefits, but why does the person mentioned not qualify for family income supplement, which is related to total income?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a question for them to bear in mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of information, is Mr. Glynn referring to the minimum statute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is he talking about permanent or temporary teachers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it possible for the witnesses to address the questions members asked about the serious position put by the TUI concerning the diminution or elimination or both of existing contractual and statutory rights? Mr. Glynn should tell me how and where that could happen. How many teachers might this affect? To what type of contracts might this happen? This is the question I have asked and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: With respect, I understood the previous questioners were answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am the only person, together with Senator Jim D'Arcy, who has asked a question on this section and I seek a response because I do not know the answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Forever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If we want to make progress here we have to move away from the ideal position of one job always being maintained as the one job when it is not. I do think Mr. MacGabhann should look at a minimum, be it nine or ten hours. I agree with him that ideally they should get the registration in the first year, but we have to be reasonable otherwise we will achieve nothing. We come in here to debate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Has Mr. MacGabhann met the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I did not say that. I said if three hours were being offered per week for physics, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Discussion with Teachers Union of Ireland and National Adult Literacy Agency (24 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is accepted.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This morning, I read with a sense of disbelief and outrage that the ESB is pressing ahead with price rises of 6% although it has made profits of ¤213 million in the first six months of this year. While it is good news that it is making a profit, it is not good news that the board is pressing ahead with the price hike. This affects every household in the country. Some people's bills are as...

Seanad: Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Statements (25 Oct 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate her on her appointment as Vice President of the European People's Party, EPP. I wish to discuss three issues. The communique between Chancellor Merkel and the Taoiseach is significant because it acknowledges Ireland's unique problem of legacy debt. Will we have a legacy debt deal before we take over the Presidency of the European Union?...