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School Patronage (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: In the Minister's second reply, she stated the Archbishop of Dublin is the biggest individual patron of schools in the country. Each bishop is a patron in his own right and is able to give a different response, which will reflect the diversity of the country. Dr. Diarmuid Martin said he felt he had too many schools for the Catholic community he serves and he came to the Department to...

School Patronage (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Why is the Minister so frightened of a forum?

Multi-Denominational Schools (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for her reply. Is she aware that the group she mentioned has referred to her Department a comprehensive letter setting out a series of questions on the constitutionality and legality of faith formation in a State school within school hours and a number of related queries? I understand the letter was sent this time last year. The group was subsequently informed that the...

Multi-Denominational Schools (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I accept what the Minister is saying. I will undertake to make available to her the correspondence, and if I do so the Minister might be in a position to respond directly to me.

Multi-Denominational Schools (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I am concerned about the quality of the briefing material provided to the Minister. It is not within her remit to be directly informed by our own actions; I would not impose that on anybody. If the Minister has had the chance to read the briefing material, does it refer to correspondence from the NCCA to the reference group, in which it advised that faith formation inside school hours for a...

Multi-Denominational Schools (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: No.

Multi-Denominational Schools (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: It was not.

School Utility Services (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I ask the Minister of State and the Minister to confirm that yesterday, the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills told us the HEA and a group of colleges within the authority had come together to negotiate with an energy supplier, of gas in this case. Will the Minister of State offer an opinion? If schools under a particular patronage were to join together, for example, the 92% of...

School Utility Services (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: On foot of the Minister of State's response, will he write to all of the primary school patrons and bring their attention to this discussion?

School Utility Services (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: He is not unapproachable.

School Utility Services (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister of State might send correspondence as encouragement.

School Utility Services (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: We will await the results.

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I am fascinated by the reply. Why did the Tánaiste raise this hare if she cannot do it? The common understanding, certainly mine, was to the effect that, if someone got 55 points in honours maths, there would be a bonus of 50% or 100%. The person would have 110 points as far as the CAO was concerned. Is the Tánaiste saying this is not possible or was it not what she meant when she made...

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: And points are an incentive they understand.

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Every maths student would move up.

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: The Tánaiste was hardly a wet week in her current job and she had plenty of ministerial experience when she endorsed a recommendation by the innovation committee that was supported by myself and many others. Surely she knew what she was saying when she said it. Since then, has her Department told her that she cannot do it in a particular way, but that there is another way to do the same...

Institutes of Technology (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Absolutely.

Institutes of Technology (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: There would be no need to provide money up front in respect of that decision.

Departmental Agencies (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Tánaiste for her reply. Do I take it that the Secretary General in her Department is the responsible Accounting Officer?

Departmental Agencies (6 May 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: The Tánaiste will be haunted by FÁS for longer than she thought.