Results 7,001-7,020 of 7,574 for speaker:John Brady
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Clearly, in this case, the Department is not working closely enough. I want to move on to another area, namely, the use of prefabs. Again, there has been a failure to put in place the school builds in a timely and efficient manner. I have to hand the figures from 2022. The cost of providing prefabs or temporary modular accommodation for schools was €28.1 million. Do we have the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Do we have a figure for 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: I apologise but did Ms McNally say the figure was €43 million in 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: There has been a significant increase, therefore. Was that for rental?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: What was the figure for the purchasing of modular units?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: In the context of the renting of spaces and other types of properties for temporary provision for educational purposes, do we have figures for 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Do we have a figure for how much it has cost to purchase those modular units?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: €281.9 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Do we have a figure for the renting of land and premises on which to put these modular units in 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: I do not mean to go back to asking about Wicklow all the time, but those modular units are predominantly being put onto land not owned by the Department. Again, therefore, how much is it costing to rent spaces in which to put those modular units? Ms McNally is saying it is permanent but in many cases it is of a temporary nature in terms of the location.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: If I could go back to the Wicklow situation, land is being rented from a rugby club, a GAA club and a tennis club-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: They may be small numbers but in Wicklow, it cost €6 million in one year to provide temporary accommodation by renting land, renting prefabs and so on. That is not value for money, in my book. It is a failure by the Department to forward-plan to provide education for pupils who, as a right, should have it in appropriate settings. I will give Ms McNally an example. One of my...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: To finish, although I might come back in on this, when the Ombudsman for Children has stated there is an unacceptable level of stress, particularly for children with special needs, and when there is a figure of more than €320 million having been spent last year on the provision of temporary and modular accommodation, that speaks volumes about the failure of the Department and the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) John Brady: Fine Gael's policy is anyone over 70 years should not drive any bus. That is chaos.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of the Government’s response to a judgment in respect of the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22510/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the reasons the Department of Education has reduced the cost of the schoolbook scheme from €96 to €80 per pupil; if this will be reviewed by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22440/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the current approach to consulting with communities where accommodation for asylum seekers is to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23006/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 545. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the record of consultation that has taken place with communities where accommodation for asylum seekers was to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23007/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (21 May 2024)
John Brady: 546. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what resources have been allocated towards consultation with communities where accommodation for asylum seekers is to be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23008/24]
- Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)
John Brady: I welcome Ireland's long overdue recognition of the State of Palestine. As we look on that state or what remains of it today, only a fraction is under Palestinian authority. Israel has steadily and illegally annexed huge areas of Palestinian territory, employing a strategy of apartheid, displacement and dispersion. Palestinians remaining in these territories are left a fragmented people...