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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (20 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of new teachers hired in the primary sector by training institution from which they obtained their teaching qualification, for each of the previous five years. [29825/12]

Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (20 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in the case of parents who have separated and have agreed joint custody, but have not gone through a legal separation, and where one or both of the parents is applying for rent supplement, if they are each entitled to receive rent supplement adequate to house themselves plus the children they are jointly caring for; if it is the case...

European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Tánaiste is very well aware, over the next three days this country will pay €1.1 billion to bondholders in the former Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society. As he is no doubt aware also, those bonds were originally issued by those institutions in 2007, therefore, the people who bought those bonds in 2007 knew that they were taking a risk. If they did their due...

Third Level Funding (27 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans or additional revenue streams, if any, he is pursuing, in order to reverse the current planned cuts to third level education, which over the next four years will amount to a cut of approximately 30% per student in real terms assuming the 6% cut in absolute funding in Budget 2012, 2% inflation per year and 18% more students;...

Third Level Funding (27 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I look forward to the report. As the Minister is aware, the position is that we are looking at a 30% per student drop in our third level system in the next four years. Last year, the Higher Education Authority, HEA, stated that between 2008 and 2011 there had been an 18% drop. Between 2008 and 2015, therefore, we are looking at approximately a 50% drop in funding per student. That will...

Third Level Funding (27 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. I know the Minister is aware of this but I put it to him that a 50% drop will wipe out our system for the next ten, 20 or 30 years. Will the Minister consider reintroducing student fees? I know that is a very personal issue for him. The report from the Geary Institute in UCD suggests that measure has not done what I believe the Minister intended it to do, which was to improve the...

Third Level Funding (27 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I agree entirely. On the socio-economic strata, the Geary Institute report suggests that the lower socio-economic percentage has remained constant but I defer to the Minister's expertise in the area. I agree entirely with the Minister. For example, in teacher training, if the figures I have seen are correct, 70% of new hires have come from Hibernia College, which is essentially zero cost to...

Third Level Funding (27 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: -----while we have five teaching schools at enormous cost to the State. They may be doing very good work but that is clearly not the way to proceed. I agree that the first thing to do is find all of these inefficiencies quickly and ruthlessly. Nonetheless, if we take Buffalo University in the United States, which is a mid-ranking US university, its total funding is 30% more than our entire...

Written Answers — Health Service Reform: Health Service Reform (27 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 659 of 19 June 2012, if he will confirm if it is the case that the Health Service Executive at present has strategic plan documents covering various sectors or geographical areas within the health service, but no single, overarching strategic plan document that brings all of these together and sets out a...

Order of Business (28 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The personal insolvency legislation is being laid before the House tomorrow. From the time the Cabinet voted on it earlier this week and when Dáil Éireann sees it tomorrow, have the banks been briefed on what the Cabinet has in mind?

Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. I wish to share my time with Deputy Mattie McGrath. Before I talk about the substance of the Bill, the direction of which I agree and welcome, I wish to make a point about the procedure for dealing with the Bill this week. We did not get access to Bill and its digest until earlier this week and I understand the debate is to be guillotined today. This is important legislation, and it...

Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (3 Jul 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 20 June 2012, in which she stated that documentation is normally required showing that a joint custody arrangement is in place and being availed of before a decision can be made on rent supplement, if she has issued any instruction; or if her attention has been drawn to any instruction being...

Written Answers — Gender Recognition: Gender Recognition (3 Jul 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 391: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that it is now just over two years since the Government accepted the High Court declaration that the failure to grant legal recognition to a person (details supplied) in her female gender was a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights; if she will explain the delay in introducing legislation to provide for...

Written Answers — Legislative Briefings: Legislative Briefings (5 Jul 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will list all organisations and individuals who were briefed on the Personal Insolvency Bill between the Cabinet meeting on 26 June 2012 and the briefing for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas on 29 June at 2.30 pm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32819/12]

Constitutional Convention: Motion (10 Jul 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I welcome this process, which is refreshing. The topics selected are important, including getting the horrific gender bias out of our Constitution. I look forward to being able to debate it and vote on it in the Chamber. I particularly welcome the Taoiseach's openness to this potentially being a first step. He is also open to some of the issues that have been raised by Deputy Adams,...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Jul 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 20 June 2012, if he will instruct or request his officials, or the Revenue Commissioners, to prepare an analysis of the estimated net cost to the Exchequer of making childcare tax deductible, using the data on the cost of childcare from the review of the cost of a full-day childcare placement published...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (10 Jul 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 20 June 2012, if, in the case that he is not in a position to have such analysis prepared within the Department or the Revenue, if he will release funding in order to allow me to commission such analysis from independent experts in the field. [33025/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (10 Jul 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with regard to the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme) and Remuneration Bill, if he will provide the national employer contributions for the groups listed in the rates of contribution table on page 21 of the Bill, which would be required in a funded scheme with the same employee contributions and benefits; and if he will...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (10 Jul 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is prepared to meet representatives of the Consumer Association of Ireland to discuss the organisation's urgent financial position; and if he has communicated such to the Association following their repeat requests for a meeting. [33181/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Jul 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the cost of the survivor's pension for the nearest year for which this is available; the number receiving this pension; and the total cost of the pension to the State. [33718/12]