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

Ruairi Quinn: They are related but separate issues.

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

Ruairi Quinn: I suggest that under the Croke Park agreement it would be an act of anticipation by the Minister's officials to accept an increase in efficiency. As the provision stands, a person who appeals will have to wait 45 days, a month and half, to get a reply. My amendment proposes the timeframe in this regard should be one month, which is four weeks. I remind the Minister that a former public...

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

Ruairi Quinn: Yes.

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

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister. Amendment agreed to.

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

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 26: In page 29, line 30, to delete "45 days" and substitute "30 days".

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

Ruairi Quinn: Let us examine the experience of local authorities in regard to planning permissions because I am not trying to set impossible deadlines for a public service that is working and trying to meet all the requirements. Frequently, the Blaney rule has been circumvented legally by the planning authorities saying they do not have adequate information or they need additional information. If the...

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

Ruairi Quinn: There should not be.

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

Ruairi Quinn: That is fair enough.

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

Ruairi Quinn: I will take that as a "Be happy with what you have got already, Deputy" reply.

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

Ruairi Quinn: I move amendment No. 34: In page 33, line 42, after "persons" to insert the following: ", and its members shall include such number of student representatives (including at least 2 student representatives nominated by the Union of Students in Ireland) as shall ensure that each sitting or division of the Appeals Board includes at least one student representative". This is a belt and braces...

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

Ruairi Quinn: USI members are more expert than anyone else.

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

Ruairi Quinn: And they are experts at trying to survive on half of nothing.

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

Ruairi Quinn: The title of the Bill is not the experts support Bill. Can we get a little real and adventurous? It is the Student Support Bill. These are people who have the right to vote, get married and be on a jury. They are not children. This is 2010, not 1810 or 1910, for God's sake. These are people who have bank accounts and in some cases are in cohabiting relationships and are parents. They...

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

Ruairi Quinn: We could provide that the Minister will appoint the board and that two of them will be members of USI. However, the Minister would select the people from USI rather than the union nominating them. Alternatively, the Bill could provide that two of the board members must be students from a representative organisation. These people are dealing with confidential matters in their role on college...

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

Ruairi Quinn: My student experience from 1964 to 1969 bears no relation to what these guys are going through now. Does that make me an expert?

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

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister has been gracious in this process. I will reluctantly do so. Timidity has triumphed over adventure.

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

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for being accommodating. I would have liked to have got more, but one has to be grateful on this side of the House for whatever one gets. I would hope, in the preparation of the operating manual for how this practice will be developed, that there will be cognisance of this debate. The Minister was reluctant to put into statutory law something that she exercised in...

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

Ruairi Quinn: So it will go before that House in the new year. If and when it is enacted, when would the Minister hope to have it up and running? Will the students who are applying to start college next September avail of this new regime or not?

School Patronage (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if the way in which the patronage of the second post-primary school in Gorey, County Wexford was decided, will now be used on a country-wide basis in determining the choice of patron of the estimated seventy new post primary schools that will be required to meet the projected future growth in the school-going population;...

School Patronage (16 Dec 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for her reply. Does the Minister, as outgoing Minister for Education and Skills, accept in principle that it is desirable to have parental choice in our education system? If so, does she believe this should be extended in the primary area where Educate Together has already established a clear position? Does the Minister, as a person with expertise in education,...