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Written Answers — Departmental Websites: Departmental Websites (20 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Question 296: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of websites his Department provides; the annual cost of maintaining each site; the number of unique visits each site received for 2009, or for a part of 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2232/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Websites: Departmental Websites (20 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of websites his Department provides; the annual cost of maintaining each site; the number of unique visits each site received for 2009, or for a part of 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2237/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Question 424: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of cases where her Department has been instructed by the courts to deduct part of someone's social welfare payment as a means of paying maintenance following a court order to pay such maintenance; if there is a legal impediment in courts instructing her Department to deduct such payments in view of the fact that such...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Question 623: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to open a new school at a location (details supplied) in County Galway in September 2020; and if the patronage of this school has been determined. [3715/10]

Civil Partnership Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this Bill. Deputy Flynn articulated the position of the great majority of people in respect of this issue and indicated that they want the Bill to be enacted in order that all citizens - irrespective of their sexual orientation or whether theirs is a traditional or non-traditional family - will have the same rights. It is for this...

School Management. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of school days lost due to the recent bad weather; if schools must make up those days between now and the end of the 2009/2010 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4312/10]

School Management. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Would the Minister accept that this, again, highlights the complete shambles of his Department, that he cannot inform Dáil Éireann as to the number of schools that were closed and the requisite number of days that were lost? There is not a centralised database within the system from which information can be given about that. I ask the Minister to be clear about this. Is he saying to...

School Management. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: When parents sought information from the Department as to the number of schools that were closed, the only information they were given was that contained on an RTE website. Would the Minister accept that his Department in the recent inclement weather did not give specific information to parents in schools all over this country, and would he ensure that were such an event to occur again, at...

School Management. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Good.

School Management. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Can I ask-----

Inquiry into Child Abuse. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Not yet.

National University of Ireland. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he will bring forward legislation to abolish the National University of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4313/10]

National University of Ireland. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: This has all the hallmarks of a decision the Minister was bounced into taking. Since he made it, he has been back-tracking all the time. The Minister carried out no consultation whatsoever with the constituent colleges of the NUI before the decision was taken. He freely admits this decision will not save money. The McCarthy report outlined a saving of €3 million but the Minister has put...

National University of Ireland. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: I remember it well.

National University of Ireland. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Perhaps that is so but we have not seen it.

National University of Ireland. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: It is the people's decision.

National University of Ireland. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: One of the reasons the Minister is all over the place on this issue is that he has been caught. He does not understand the nature or detail of the decision he has taken. Quite frankly, hundreds of thousands of graduates of the NUI are laughing at him and at his complete failure to justify the decision. What will happen to the €12 million investment fund which is still within the National...

National University of Ireland. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: Try it.

National University of Ireland. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: A brand name without the NUI. Brilliant.

National University of Ireland. (28 Jan 2010)

Brian Hayes: It is waffle.