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- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2006)
Mary Hanafin: Following completion of the project, my Department's National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, supplied the schools involved with the results of the findings related to their own pupils. I understand the service offered schools in Dundalk consultations and individual educational psychological assessment based on the outcomes of the screening programmes. The service also provided a day...
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (28 Feb 2006)
Mary Hanafin: I understand the Deputy is referring to the barrister-at-law degree awarded by the Honourable Society of Kings Inns in her question. It is not the intention of my Department to recognise as progression, under the terms of the maintenance grant schemes, the entry of candidates to masters in law courses where those candidates hold a barrister at law degree from the Honourable Society of Kings...
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (28 Feb 2006)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 481 and 482 together. Currently, two junior infant classes are accommodated in the new national school to which the Deputy refers. When fully occupied, the school will operate as a two-stream, 16-classroom school. To enable it develop in this manner, it can only enrol two junior infant classes annually. This incremental development is common to all newly...
- Further and Higher Education: Statements. (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: I am delighted to have this opportunity to address the House on recent developments and current issues in higher and further education. It is important at the outset to put the issues in these sectors in context. We live in a fast-changing world. Ireland has been transformed over the past decade from an underperforming economy at the periphery of Europe to a wealthy, prosperous...
- Further and Higher Education: Statements. (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: It is competitive.
- Further and Higher Education: Statements. (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: We cannot afford it and I did not accept all the recommendations.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: That is why I set up the task force.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: The Opposition picked up on a minority of comments.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: It was clear it was not the majority opinion.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: We both spent years in schools.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: I did not say that.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: It is Deputy Enright who is using those terms.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: She spoke of the child who does not fit.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: That was her language.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: They should be called if there has been criminal activity.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: Deputy Enright's party wanted us to publish results but I rejected that approach.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: Every school is required to have a policy on bullying.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: The schools are required to follow guidelines.
- School Discipline: Motion (Resumed). (1 Mar 2006)
Mary Hanafin: They are as relevant today as they were when they were introduced.