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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 493: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in County Galway which had the required 48 students on 30 September 2008 to retain all of its three teachers has been instructed that it will lose one because it no longer meets the increased enrolment number of 49 set by his Department in Circular 0002/2009; the reason his Department increased...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 496: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names and addresses of each second level school in receipt of additional teaching resources in respect of special educational needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7565/09]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 497: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names and addresses of each second level school in receipt of additional teaching resources in respect of language support for students for whom English is not their first language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7566/09]

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I listened to the Tánaiste this morning speaking about the desire for light regulation in recent years whereas now we are looking for enforced regulation. She was perhaps inadvertently referring exclusively to financial regulation. The matter about which many complain is the incomprehensibility of labour law legislation on the Statute Book. The Government promised to bring forward a...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: If the Taoiseach checks his files, he will see it was one of the many promises made by his predecessor.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The first in decades.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Will the Minister take a question on that matter?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister's attitude has answered my question.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Tweaking in Donegal is not the same as in Castleknock.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: There are 50,000 primary school pupils who attend classes in prefabs. There are people whose children sit in the very prefabs in which they sat 25 or 30 years ago. In our experience, temporary measures tend to have a certain degree of longevity that creates certain doubts in people's minds with regard to the nature of such measures. I ask the Minister to consider what, in most people's...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: A variation in the levy is required.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: May I make an observation?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: To the best of my knowledge, the Emergency declared in 1939 lasted until 1975.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Is a similar timeframe envisaged here?

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extent to which the announcement of 3 February 2009 of expenditure savings of €2.1 billion will have an impact on Garda recruitment and Garda overtime in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7602/09]

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (25 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the strength of An Garda Síochána at the latest date for which figures are available broken down by full members, those who have attested but not yet concluded their training, those in training, the expected number that will be recruited in 2009, the anticipated numbers at each above category at the end of 2009 and the...

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will enter into talks with an organisation (details supplied), some of whose members, as teaching orders, are the legal owners of many of the primary schools here, with a view to seeking to have their legal ownership of those properties transferred to his Department while ensuring that they continue to operate as schools under...

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for the clarity of his reply. He must have a new answer writer in the Department. This is in no way an attempt by the Labour Party or I to further punish the religious orders. On the contrary, we are all indebted to them because of the contribution they have made to education. However, my fear is that the congregations will be obliged to provide 24 hour seven day...

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: That is nobody's fault. There is no fault either on the part of the Minister or on the part of the religious orders.