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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by her on further education broken down according to current spending on pay and current non-pay spending; capital spending; the number of places being funded by her according to type of further education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47441/10]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an application to establish a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; the position regarding that application; if she will recognise that this area has a rapidly expanding school going population and that a large number of parents wish to send their children to a multi-denominational school;...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received correspondence (details supplied) relating to possible fraud at a special education centre; if she is acting to investigate these allegations; the person carrying out the investigation; if the investigations are being conducted externally or internally by her; when she expects the findings to be made;...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the 15,410 training places for the unemployed that will be cut as a result of the €43 million reduction to the allocation to FÁS; the programmes and courses, the number of places, locations and duration of courses that will be cut as a result of this decision; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason she is reducing the training budget for the unemployed and the number of training places at a time when demand is growing and when the evidence suggests it makes sense to retain jobseekers in education and training and close to the labour market; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47538/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 9 March 2010, if she has received the report of the training and employment framework for young persons and early school leavers which was to be published before the end of the year, if she will confirm that consultations have taken place with youth organisations as promised;...

Written Answers — Training and Work Experience Programmes: Training and Work Experience Programmes (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 30 November 2010, when a reply will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47557/10]

Written Answers — Civil Service Staff: Civil Service Staff (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Finance if active civil servants who availed of the incentivised scheme for early retirement, ISER, as set out in Department Finance Circular 12/09 and who signed a legal document not to re-enter the labour market and whose PPS numbers were noted in order that they could not breach the ISER contract, are now released from this contractual obligation in...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a breakdown of all spending on the development of agriculture and food as per subheads A.4 and C.5 in the 2011 Estimates for Public Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47442/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a breakdown of spending by his Department on direct income and market supports, according to programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47443/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a breakdown of funding for Teagasc by his Department according to current pay-related spending; current non-pay spending; administrative spending; capital spending; spending according to Teagasc programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47444/10]

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Our duty is to hold the Government to account.

Student Support Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 9: In page 18, line 32, after "State," to insert the following: "and has been previously so ordinarily resident for such period if any as may be prescribed,". The purpose of the amendment is to take account of the regular mobility among the student population. Somebody may be out of the country or gone to different parts of the jurisdiction, or Northern Ireland. The...

Student Support Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 10: In page 18, lines 33 to 44, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 33, down to and including "2006)—" in line 44, to delete page 19 and in page 20, to delete lines 1 to 12 and substitute the following: "and is an Irish citizen, a non-national who is lawfully present in the State and is likely to remain lawfully in the State for the duration of the...

Student Support Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I can understand the desire to provide maximum flexibility in drafting the scheme and to not be tied by primary legislation, but I hoped the spirit of the amendment proposed by Deputy O'Dowd would be incorporated. It may not be done by the current Government but by whomever is next in Government. Let the record stand.

Student Support Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister.

Student Support Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Do I move amendment No. 26 at this point?

Student Support Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Can I debate the net point now?

Student Support Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Amendment No. 26 seeks to delete "45 days" and substitute "30 days". Does the Minister accept the proposal?

Student Support Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: We suggest that the appeal period-----