Results 9,081-9,100 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: A school will only close if it loses its pupils.
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: What age is he now?
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: It is a case of catch-22.
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Deputy
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Was it resolved?
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The intention is to provide for continuous professional development.
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Has the overall population dropped?
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: We must not stigmatise them.
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Small schools.
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: From 1965 to 1970-odd, we closed 2,000 one-teacher and two-teacher schools.
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Yes.
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the 29 Deputies, including myself, who have contributed to this Second Stage debate. If these closing remarks are taken into account, 30 speeches will have been made by the time this debate concludes. That is evidence of the genuine interest in education of a wide range of Deputies across all sections of this House. I cannot recall a previous occasion when a Second Stage debate...
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: An ignored child. That runs across the social spectrum. Perhaps the motivations in regard to delivering education equality in schools was properly constructed but perhaps we must look at the connotation and stigmatisation because there are unintended consequences, to which Deputy Mathews referred, where school X is not seen as a good feeder school for second level and so on. Those...
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Sub-committee (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-committee on Education and Skills pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business.
- Modern Language Teaching (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank Deputy Kitt for raising this issue and I welcome the opportunity to clarify the position of the decision taken in budget 2012. As part of the budget 2012 decisions, the modern languages in primary schools initiative will cease at the end of the 2011-12 school year. The savings from this measure will go towards the cost of implementing the new national literacy and numeracy strategy,...
- Modern Language Teaching (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I understand the concern that has been expressed by many well-intentioned people about this. We have been codding ourselves in this country for some time about the extraordinary quality of our education system. Other countries have been devoting a lot of time to reform and improving their systems. As a consequence, we have dropped much further...
- Modern Language Teaching (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I will.
- Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme to carry out various improvement works to their school building. As the scope of works for which funding is sought is outside the terms of the scheme it cannot be considered for funding. The school authority has been informed of this decision.
- Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The question of enrolment in individual schools is the responsibility of the managerial authority of those schools. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking places. This may result, however, in some pupils not obtaining a place in the school of their first choice. It is the responsibility of the managerial...
- Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (1 Mar 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 81 and 92 together. As the Deputy is aware, the Government's Medium Term Infrastructure and Capital Investment Framework, which was published on 10th November last, sets out the demographic challenge facing the education system. Total enrolment in both primary and post-primary schools is expected to grow by almost 70,000 between now and 2018 - over 45,000 at...