Results 4,761-4,780 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the appropriateness, or otherwise of poetry (details supplied) remaining on the leaving certificate syllabus in view of the controversy surrounding the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6867/08]
- School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: In response to the circumstances which arose in this case, the Minister last week said she was shocked and appalled. She speaks on everyone's behalf in that regard. Is the Minister aware the film will be put out on RTE in March and come into the public domain? It is fair to say it could cause a fair degree of controversy in classrooms up and down the country. In her reply, the Minister...
- School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: My understanding is the Minister ultimately has power over the curriculum. She takes advice from the NCCA but what is on the curriculum is ultimately a departmental decision. Does the Minister believe it appropriate that this poet's work remains on the curriculum, given the circumstances alluded to in the national press? I put to her a comment made to me by a teacher recently. She stated...
- School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: The Minister has ultimate power in this matter and must take advice from the NCCA. Is her position that this poet's work will remain on the curriculum and that there could well be a question about it over the next two years? Does the Minister have any intention of changing that?
- School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: The Minister put de Valera's book on the course.
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: How well we know it.
- Adult Education. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Adult Education. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Adult Education. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: The Minister is trying to buy me off.
- School Funding. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: The Minister informed the House that 420 primary schools obtained the exemption. Given that there are approximately 3,500 primary schools in the Stateââ
- School Funding. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: That 56 schools out of the 420 have obtained the charitable status tax exemption means that at least 10% of them have done so. Is it not the case that schools are obtaining the exemption to make up for the shortfall in capitation funds? That is how wealthier schools in more well-to-do areas of the city are operating. They are seeking donations as a means of trying to make their books...
- School Funding. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Does that not amount to 400 primary schools?
- School Funding. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: How many primary schools are there?
- School Management. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Will the Minister outline, from her experience of the reporting of this issue by colleagues on all sides of the House, how widespread is this problem? It was brought to my attention by a number of parents in recent months. Will she agree at the very least that an audit should be undertaken to ascertain how widespread this issue has become? This must be the most bizarre new practice in our...
- School Management. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Will the Minister agree she would be doing a service to all schools if she wrote to the principals and boards of management informing them of her comments and views on the matter to ensure if there is, to use the phrase, any lingering animosity on this policy, it is cleared up by her comments?
- School Management. (20 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: I would not bet on it.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.