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Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (15 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the various phases of the plans to reorganise his Department's offices around the country. [36223/09]

Written Answers — Fallen Animal Collection Scheme: Fallen Animal Collection Scheme (15 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status of proceedings aimed at bringing down the costs of disposing of fallen animals. [36222/09]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (15 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the 270 social work posts called for in the recent Ryan report are excluded from the current Health Service Executive recruitment moratorium; if these 270 positions will be filled by hiring new social workers or if existing staff will be redeployed into these positions; when a new recruitment panel for social workers in the HSE...

Schools Building Projects. (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason he has spent only 52% of his capital allocation on school building projects of the year to date in 2009; if he will confirm that he put 24 school building projects out for re-tendering around June 2008 and that none had been successfully completed by June 2009; the number of school building projects which have been...

Schools Building Projects. (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister provided a significant amount of information in his response. I will try to focus on some of the headline parts and we can return on another day to other elements. Will the Minister and the Department recognise we face a threefold crisis? First, we have a crisis in terms of student numbers, which are growing exponentially; the highest birth rate since 1896 was recorded this...

Schools Building Projects. (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: They had plenty of time to interpret them.

Schools Building Projects. (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I have no problem in that regard.

Schools Building Projects. (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister, in his supplementary response, said that 159 schools had opted for a permanent as distinct from a prefab structure. Will he make those details available?

School Staffing. (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: That is nearly like the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party.

School Curriculum. (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I am disappointed with the Minister of State's reply and also with the complacency associated with it. There are many other European countries which have two languages, for example, Catalan and Spanish in Catalonia, Spain, and there are two languages in Belgium. We are woefully behind most continental countries in regard to having a second language as part and parcel of our integrated...

Schools Building Projects. (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Has the Minister given renewed consideration to the idea of publishing the comprehensive waiting list so that every primary and post-primary school in the State has an indication of where it is on the list? All the emotional energy expended in seeking to find out that information, which soaks up so much time in Tullamore, in the Department and at Question Time, could be done away with. If...

Schools Building Projects. (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I suggest the Deputy look it up on the web.

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to request banks (details supplied) to hand over their substantial art collection to the Arts Council for public display on a permanent basis in view of the guarantees he has put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36732/09]

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the fact that the Anglo Irish Bank is now State controlled, he will take the necessary steps to have their art collection of the bank handed over to the Arts Council with a view to having the various paintings and sculptures handed over to the municipal and country art galleries here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 481: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the basis for the charging system set out in the Local Government (Charges) Act 2009; the reason the charge makes no reference to the size or value of a property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36662/09]

Written Answers — School Fees: School Fees (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 554: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reverse the cuts to Protestant schools implemented in budget 2009; if his attention has been drawn to the space given to the Protestant community when the secondary school fees scheme was introduced in 1967 and the special position these schools occupy for members of the small and dispersed Protestant community here; if...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 602: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to parliamentary question No 355 of 22 September 2009 the 40 sites identified by his Department as having the greatest need for new primary school provision; if he will provide a copy of the letter issued to each patron; the responses his letter has received from patrons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36896/09]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 603: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 352, 358 and 359 of 22 September 2009, if he will arrange for his Department to forward on the report as promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36898/09]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (20 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 610: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will amend the rules of the higher education grants scheme to allow students who are undertaking courses which are run through collaboration between Fáilte Ireland and ten institutes of technology to avail of appropriate grants; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that unlike previous years, Fáilte Ireland is no...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.