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Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (2 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way he plans to combat the digital divide; if he is satisfied that persons who wish to learn how to use the Internet across broad sections of society have an opportunity to learn; the numbers of eInclusion grants awarded; the numbers of training places that have been taken up; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Radio Broadcasting: Radio Broadcasting (2 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money that has been spent on digital radio here; the position regarding the project; if he will comment on criticisms of DAB radio as being outdated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10126/10]

Written Answers — Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she is involved in the release of funds from the European Globalisation Fund; when a course (details supplied) will receive its funds; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that unless the funds are provided the course will be cancelled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10008/10]

Written Answers — Registration Fees: Registration Fees (2 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 428: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will raise the matter of costs of registering as an architect here with an organisation (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the registration fee here is €490 while in the UK, it is €86; if he will further raise with the organisation the possibility of introducing a...

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: FÁS?

Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach had to manage that organisation.

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (3 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if construction plans for the proposed new National Children's Hospital have been affected by the current economic climate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10420/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (3 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical assessment units in place in acute hospitals; if an audit has been carried out on the way these units have affected waiting times in accident and emergency departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10421/10]

School Management. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the criteria and methodology he used in selecting the location and patronage of the seven new primary schools which he announced on 16 February 2010; whether the commission on school accommodation, the new schools advisory committee or the National Parents Council were consulted in advance of this decision; and if he will make a...

School Management. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: While I am tempted to say something, I instead will ask the question.

School Management. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Why would a patron such as the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, which controls 92% of national schools, which the Primate and Archbishop of Dublin has acknowledged to be a legacy of the past that does not represent the geography of the present in sociological terms, get two out of the seven new schools in an area in which University College Galway identified the presence of 33 different...

School Management. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes, please.

School Management. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Does the Minister accept that the distribution of patronage across the country is a distortion from the past that no longer fits the contours of modern sociological Ireland?

School Management. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Can the Minister explain how he allocated three out of the seven schools to a patron body that does not have the legal status to be a patron at primary level?

School Management. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Will the Minister publish those legal arrangements?

Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Does the Minister have that report in writing?

Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I thought Eugene Lambert was dead.

Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: There is not much evidence of that.

Student Support Schemes (4 Mar 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: If he has the information available to him, will the Minister of State indicate the cost of an additional PLC place above and beyond the cap, otherwise he might communicate it to me?