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Schools Patronage. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has, following a meeting of the Joint Committee on Education and Science on 9 April 2009, been in contact with a person (details supplied), to discuss his proposals, made on a number of occasions but most recently at an education conference in Kilmainham in 2008, that he, as patron, wished to divest himself and his...

Schools Patronage. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I appreciate the reply and I am pleased that departmental officials have been in contact with the patron. Is it fair to extrapolate from the Minister's comments that in the other 19 or 20 dioceses a similar pressure is being exerted on the patron? If I understand the matter correctly, the Department will not contact all existing patrons. Some 93% of primary schools are under the patronage...

Schools Patronage. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It applied to new schools.

Schools Patronage. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: On a related matter concerning patronage, has the Minister considered the application from Educate Together, lodged with the Department in December 2007, to become a recognised patron not only of primary schools, of which it has responsibility for more than 53, but also at secondary school level?

Schools Patronage. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I assure the Minister he has a clear hand.

Legal Costs. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It does so for all Departments.

Legal Costs. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Is the Minister saying the board never informed the Department?

Special Educational Needs. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: He has not got it. It has gone to the Department of Finance.

Grangegorman Development Agency. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: On a point of order, is this question being taken with Question No. 23?

Grangegorman Development Agency. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We could play the advantage rule, namely, I go first.

Grangegorman Development Agency. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister gave an undertaking at committee last week that it was his intention to visit the site. He might confirm that this is still his intention.

Grangegorman Development Agency. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: He could combine it with the by-election. Senator Ivana Bacik will give him a tour of the site. It is a very worthwhile project, for many reasons. The Minister is already committed to spending money in the DIT area for maintenance, repair and upkeep, and to all intents and purposes that is wasted, dead money because the buildings are in many cases old and not appropriate.

Grangegorman Development Agency. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: This cannot be compared with a new project that would go on a greenfield site, which is additionality; this is a logical rationalisation. I urge the Minister to find a way in which this could be done. I believe the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey, would be very happy to see a major educational institution established on the north side of Dublin city.

Grangegorman Development Agency. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: That is over an extended period. If one considers the rent they are paying, their maintenance and all the other existing costs, it is nearly a win-win situation.

Grangegorman Development Agency. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: What is the timescale?

Grangegorman Development Agency. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: If the Minister gives the go-ahead in principle, with whatever caveats he wants in regard to public moneys, there are items that could be done through the private sector, for example, student accommodation and many other developments on the site. It will unlock other sources of revenue but it depends critically on the Minister bringing a positive recommendation to Cabinet.

Grangegorman Development Agency. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It all comes down to the Minister.

Third Level Funding. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I presume that after the by-election disaster for Fianna Fáil, the Minister will be immune from any effect of publishing the report on fees because it will not be able to make his position any worse. Therefore, will he please get on with it and publish the report?

Third Level Funding. (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: They are equally divided on the issue.

Written Answers — School Patrons: School Patrons (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received the legal opinion which his Department sought in relation to the application by Educate Together to have its existing status as patron of primary schools extended into post primary schools; if that legal opinion has identified an impediment which would prevent Educate Together from becoming a patron at post primary...