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School Patronage. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I suggest the best way to hold further discussions is some form of open dialogue.

School Patronage. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Can we get beyond the squinting windows of dialogue and the cultural deference of the past? Can we have a seminar in which everybody can hear what the participants are saying? Archbishop Martin has an obligation to the Minister in exercising his duties as patron because the Minister is paying the tab for the 477 schools - 93% of the total - which are involved in Dublin. The current...

School Patronage. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Is the Minister referring to the commission on school accommodation?

School Patronage. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It was announced on the eve of the INTO conference.

School Patronage. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes.

School Patronage. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Those days are gone.

School Management. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for his reply and I sympathise with him in respect of the difficulties he is experiencing. The Minister did not establish the Department of Education and Science and was not responsible for its operation over a long period. It is incredible that some form of basic spreadsheet on which the information to which the question refers is not available. Deputies were treated...

School Management. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The figures to which I refer come from a document published by the Department of Education and Science in July 2008.

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the matters discussed at his meeting on 4 June 2009 with representatives of the religious orders that ran institutions identified in the Ryan Report in which children were abused; if the question of additional payments by the orders was discussed; if he plans further meetings with the orders; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his proposals to ensure that his Department is capable of quickly and efficiently drafting legislation to put before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if his attention has been drawn to the lack of progress with the Student Support Bill 2008, the proposed Education (Patronage) Bill, the proposed George Mitchell Scholarship Fund Act 1998...

Proposed Legislation. (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is intended to publish the Industrial Relations Bill which is required to provide for the continued operation of the joint labour committee and the registered employment agreement system, which was promised under the Review of Towards 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27440/09]

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to share time with Deputies Jan O'Sullivan and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin.

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Whatever about the previous debate, this is not a debate in which party division or rancour should inform our discourse because this is something for which we all bear some responsibility and for which we all have an obligation to the survivors and the victims and to their children. I cannot recall anything in recent times that had such an impact as the findings of the Ryan commission. It...

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is more addressed to people outside the State.

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The figure is €1.27 billion.

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes.

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: And the probability of defeat.

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.

Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.