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Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (17 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: Can we join forces to insist on a further debate on this in which the Minister could outline her plans and vision in greater detail for making history a discrete subject? As a member of the all-party consultative committee on 1916, I am pleased all the historical strands have got buy-in from all parties. A shared space is not a lost space.

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (17 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: That is how one's historical perspective is formed. A whole generation-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: The people of Haggardstown are getting a bit worried about the Greek crisis. They asked me to put a couple of questions in this Chamber. First, are members of Sinn Féin still backing the Syriza-led Greek Government and are they still pally with the guy who visited their Ard-Fheis? Second, what does-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: The people of Haggardstown want to know what "debt write-down" means.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: They want to know whether it means we will pay the money the Greeks have not paid. As the Taoiseach has said, at the end of the day all things should be sorted out at the table.It is a couple of years since I introduced a Bill in the House regarding the provision of defibrillators. The Minister accepted the point, said he would check with the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I thank the various bodies for their submissions. I thank Senator Moran, in particular, for the work she has done in her role as rapporteur on this important issue. Ms Lynch of the National Parents Council - Primary suggested that "an over-dependence on SNA support can lead to social isolation". One of the aims of any good teacher should be to make himself or herself redundant. This will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I welcome Ms Joan McCrohan's elaboration on IMPACT's position on SNAs and its vision for them. I asked a question about proper respect, value, and SNAs being considered a general dogsbody by school principals. Having said that, this debate has been useful. I would definitely go lion hunting with Mr. Dessie Robinson. I have no doubt if he had my back that I would be safe. I know his first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: It sounds a little like a Senator to me.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I welcome the fact the Greek Government is still in negotiations to sort out its problems. As the Taoiseach and others in this House have said, at the end of the day it will be solved by negotiation.I am glad the Greek finance Minister, the communist, has departed because we were not going to get a solution-----

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: He said it himself.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: It is a noble thing from some people's perspectives. Personally I am glad about the resignation having seen what happened before in communist countries.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: In addition to acknowledging the need for a structural rearrangement of the debt, one should please accept that the Greek Government has to collect its taxes. There must be structural reform also. Rather than having rhetoric, there has to be a little understanding that one cannot get one thing without doing another. For example, today the Irish Minister for Education and Skills announced...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: Owing to necessary structural reforms, we are now able to start in a cohesive, strategic, sustainable way to cater for everybody in this country. I wish the Greeks well in their negotiations. Greece is a wonderfully historic country. The Greek people have intimated that they want to stay in the eurozone and the European Union. I would ask-----

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: Yes.

Seanad: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: At 10.30 tomorrow morning.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: Listening to Senator Leyden - I am sorry he is gone----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I will only say that a long time ago a well-respected Vincentian priest said to me that we all have to have our illusions in this life. I will leave it at that.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I note the prominent role the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, is taking in the discussions in Europe, and how highly respected he is and how people value his guidance in these matters. In relation to Greece, it appears what will probably happen is that people from all sides of the political spectrum who act with good authority will effectively work as a national government to bring...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

Jim D'Arcy: I understand that. I would love to, but Senator Darragh O'Brien will be aware that at the time when negotiations are going on about anything,-----