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Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (29 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 565: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she envisages any rise in the charges for the school transport scheme in the context of the forthcoming budget in December 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27586/10]

Written Answers — School Patronage: School Patronage (29 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 566: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No 503 of 1 June 2010, if she will provide the requested information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27590/10]

Written Answers — School Patronage: School Patronage (29 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 567: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question 504 of 1 June 2010, if she will provide the requested information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27591/10]

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (29 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 568: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the cost of employing a DEIS adviser and a DEIS rural co-ordinator; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27615/10]

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (29 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 569: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will give details of a DEIS adviser and a DEIS rural co-ordinator; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27616/10]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (29 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 570: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the annual grant to primary and secondary schools for the purchase of library books; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27618/10]

Written Answers — Literacy Levels: Literacy Levels (29 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 571: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received the results of the standardised testing of literacy carried out in primary schools in 2009; her plans for the results of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27619/10]

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (29 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 581: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a college (details supplied) in County Cavan has received more than 4,000 applications for courses for the academic year that begins in September 2010; if she will remove the current cap on places in this college, which is currently set at 1200 students; the reason the...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (29 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 602: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to the school books scheme per school year in a tabular format for the years 2006 to 2010 inclusive; when this scheme became restricted only to DEIS schools; the current eligibility for this scheme in view of the changes announced in Budget 2010; and if she will make a statement on the...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Amendment No. 3 in my name and that of my colleague, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, states: In page 4, lines 29 to 31, to delete all words from and including "may" in line 29 down to and including "section" in line 31 and substitute the following: "may not dispose of any land (including buildings) vested in it by this section and must continue to use the land (including buildings) vested in it by...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: It is called democracy.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: As I said.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I have listened with interest to what the Minister of State said. I regard any person elected in this republic and to this assembly as an equal citizen with the same mandate. There are no first or second division Deputies, irrespective of what party they belong to or if they belong to none. If what I might have said or the way in which I said it suggested that I did not so believe, that is...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: No more, no less.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the recommendations of the report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes that he intends to implement during 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28345/10]

Written Answers — Joint Policing Committees: Joint Policing Committees (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied with the operation of the local policing committees; the numbers of such committees established to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28346/10]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Question No. 470 of 22 June 2010, if she will direct the State Examinations Commission to bring forward a defined programme with specific dates, to give effect to the right of every leaving certificate student to get an official leaving certificate; the reason the State Examinations Commission...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (30 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 22 June 2010, if she will make the online inventory of school accommodation available to the public, in view of the public interest from both existing and potential parents in the condition of school buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28623/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Jul 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action taken following an assessment by the Health Service Executive through an agency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; if she will provide the necessary support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28964/10]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (1 Jul 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if the special educational needs division of her Department offers a programme to autistic children known as the July provision; if she will outline the distinctions between the way this scheme works for schools and for parents who opt to hire a teacher directly; if there have been any changes to the payment of this...