Results 561-580 of 7,789 for speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Correct.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Tough luck.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Patients are being turned away.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The first requirement is space for people.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If the Minister goes down to look at the mental health services in the west, he will soon see what is going on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the impact of the Government’s decision in December 2011 to change the ex-quota status of the role of the guidance counsellor in second level schools, her plans to reverse this cut in the next budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25914/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: In view of the impact of the Government's decision in December 2011 to change the ex-quota status of the role of the guidance counsellor in second level schools, what are the Minister's plans to reverse this cut in the next budget? Will she make a statement on the matter?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the fact the Minister will look for more funding. A long time ago the guidance counsellor was not included as a normal, run-of-the-mill teacher in a school. With our country hopefully now taking off, children will need the best guidance possible. I know from talking to guidance counsellors that there are problems throughout the country and they do not get the time to see all...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome that the Minister has said she will try to change this situation. I would also like to see guidance counsellors broaden their horizons to look at other skills outside their field, such as skills involving their hands, to ensure there are other opportunities for them. We are possibly coming to the stage where we will run short of certain skills in this country in the coming years...
- Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the 15% cut in resource teaching hours imposed in 2012 upon individual students with special educational needs prior to piloting the model recommended by the National Council for Special Education; whether the pilot scheme will be introduced in the coming school year; to set out the number and percentage of schools in which...
- Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I call on the Minister for Education and Skills to reverse the 15% cut in resource teaching hours imposed in 2012 upon individual students with special educational needs prior to piloting the model recommended by the National Council for Special Education, to indicate whether the pilot scheme will be introduced in the coming school year, to set out the number and percentage of schools in...
- Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Probably the reason extra people were employed is because more children required the service. Several parents have come to me and said they are not happy with the situation at the moment. They do not believe their children are being looked after well enough. I urge the Minister in this regard. Is the information out there? Do we know the 52 schools in question? What about the other...
- Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Am I correct in saying that it was envisaged first that the new system would be introduced in September but this has now changed to a pilot scheme? Why is that?
- Other Questions: Student Support Schemes (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase the income threshold for the student support grant to compensate for the negative impact of the Government's austerity programme which has left tax-paying parents in what heretofore would have been considered good jobs unable to afford to send their children to college; if she will further amend the student support grant...
- Other Questions: Student Support Schemes (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I wish to ask the Minister if she will increase the income threshold for the student support grant to compensate for the negative impact of the austerity programme over the past few years which has left tax-paying parents in what heretofore would have been considered good jobs unable to afford to send their children to school. Will she further amend the student support grant scheme to allow...
- Other Questions: Student Support Schemes (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Over the past few years, unprecedented circumstances have arisen because of what happened when the bubble burst or the economy crashed. People who were classed as having good jobs have gone through the misfortune of bankruptcy or insolvency. This is the reality. Living expenses of €28,000 are allowed. I know of a parent who cannot send a child to school. We are trying to help...
- Other Questions: Student Support Schemes (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I know there are many different circumstances but the reality is that what is happening is being brought about because of what we have gone through as a country. Where it has been proven that a family has gone through the insolvency process, on foot of which a parent had to go insolvent, the children should not be let suffer. When the Minister is addressing this she should facilitate them....
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Administration (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will be making provision for a summer works grant scheme for primary schools in the 2015-16 school year, sufficient to clear the backlog from 2014 as well as meeting the demands from additional national schools which will need works carried out in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25768/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the additional accommodation that is urgently required by schools (details supplied) in Counties Leitrim and Roscommon within the next 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25766/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (30 Jun 2015)
Michael Fitzmaurice: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that she has amended downwards the number of pupils required for the retention of teachers in two-teacher, three-teacher and four-teacher national schools if she will consider reducing the numbers needed for the appointment of teachers in two-teacher, three-teacher and four-teacher schools; and if she will make a statement...