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- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 504: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department estimates will be saved by the abolition of the book grant for schools not in the DEIS scheme in the 2009-10 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36995/08]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 530: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Question No. 1766 of 24 September 2008, when his Department's review of overall economic and budgetary positions and competing priorities for available resources will take place; when it will conclude; when schools will be informed of the conclusions of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37088/08]
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Withdraw the racist remark.
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Will the Tánaiste indicate when Committee Stage of the Student Support Bill will be taken?
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: It is also a matter for the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Education and Science, Deputy Paul Gogarty, but he is gone missing. Does the Tánaiste know where the Deputy is?
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Who created those difficult times?
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Will the Deputy take a point of information?
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Those circumstances have arisen from the Government's budgets and policies over the last four years.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The nature of the building boom meant that the crash was inevitable.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: There are 50,000 empty tax-driven houses in Ireland.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: That is rich coming from a Fianna Fáil Deputy.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: No, it is not.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister does not have the facts and figures.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: We would abolish four Minister of State positions, for a start.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Deputy Fahey's party invented it.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The response is spontaneous.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: That is good coming from a Haughey.
- Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Crazy economics.