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School Accommodation. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Empower them now.

FÁS Training Programmes. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will offer first refusal to the further education sector, including the vocational education committees and the institutes of technology, to provide the 51,000 training places for the unemployed announced recently by the Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12335/09]

FÁS Training Programmes. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister of State for his reply but remind him that since the last general election, 200,000 extra people have gone on the live register, some for the first time. What he describes is business as usual when we, effectively, had full employment. If FÁS has the capacity for an extra 51,000, then there is something seriously wrong with the organisation. We know from the quality...

FÁS Training Programmes. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I thought that when the Minister of State was appointed to the two Departments that his primary responsibility would be to cement the bridge between the Departments of Education and Science and Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Part of the task at this moment of crisis is to capture as many resources as possible for the control of the education system. FÁS simply cannot do this job, and I...

FÁS Training Programmes. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister of State did not write his script.

FÁS Training Programmes. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: There are 200,000 extra people, some of whom have never been on the dole before.

FÁS Training Programmes. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister of State will not get it from FÁS.

State Examinations. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Why not do both?

Schools Building Projects. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for his reply. I appreciate he is not responsible for the nonsense with which we are confronted. We are supposed to live and work in a market economy and be able to access what prices are so that there can be adjustments for other competitors. Would the Minister not agree that it is unacceptable for scarce taxpayers' money to be used to fund contracts the cost of which...

Schools Building Projects. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Which was way over the market rate.

Schools Building Projects. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: In the current market conditions, which are totally different to the ones applying when the PPPs were first conceived, I ask the Minister to reconsider this and to think again. I cannot see why we do not publish what was the price for this contract in better times in 2007, and subsequently in 2008 with a falling market. If that is publicised, surely we are likely to get better value. One...

Schools Building Projects. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I disagree.

Property Transfers. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister. It probably would have been easier to get the details of the third secret of Fatima than to get this information but it is on its way and I cannot contain myself with excitement.

Property Transfers. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I accept what the Minister has said but there are other ways of re-entering negotiations with the religious orders, which are the owners of the educational property, to see if they can transfer the legal ownership of that property, maintain the schools as ongoing places of education and maintain the nature of their patronage so they will not, as their numbers decline, be tempted, as has...

Property Transfers. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I am not talking about money. No cash will change hands, just the deeds.

Property Transfers. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is a fair point.

School Curriculum. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Will the Minister confirm that the impact of the measures as originally announced will be the removal from the education system of 550 teachers who are providing language support, that this will result in a saving of approximately €33 million and that the words "unemployed" or "sacked" teachers will not appear anywhere else because these people are on contract? This is a cruel way of...

School Curriculum. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We call them "the new Irish".

School Curriculum. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Good.

School Curriculum. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes.