Results 11,201-11,220 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The information sought by the Deputy is provided in the table attached. As the Deputy is aware, the Public Service Agreement 2010 – 2014 (Croke Park Agreement) provides that there will be no reductions in the pay rates of existing public servants. A public service-wide review of allowances is taking place and allowances paid to teachers form only a part of the overall remit of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy will be aware that under the provisions of the Education Act, 1998, the Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of a school and it is the Board of Management that employs the teachers at the school. Accordingly, whereas I provide funding and policy direction for schools, neither I nor the Department have legal powers to instruct schools to follow a...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Staff (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table: MINISTER – Private and Constituency Offices 2010 GROSS ANNUAL SALARY COST PRIVATE OFFICE €485,308 CONSTITUENCY OFFICE €238,465 2009 ANNUAL SALARY COST PRIVATE OFFICE €437,936 CONSTITUENCY OFFICE €256,031 MINISTER OF STATE – Private and Constituency Offices 2010...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the joint committee for giving me an opportunity to engage in this discussion. I acknowledge the presence of the new Fianna Fáil spokesperson on education, Deputy Charlie McConalogue. I look forward to working with him and Deputy Jonathan O'Brien of Sinn Féin. If they would like to receive a briefing or any information from the Department of Education and Skills in their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Deputies for their questions and comments. With regard to third level fees, the so-called student charge, which has been rebranded for what it is, was €2,000 when the Government came into office. It was increased by €250 last year and will increase again by the same amount, to a maximum of €3,000. The revenue from increasing it by €250 this year...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I will have to get a full briefing on that across the country. It is not unreasonable that people who are seeking support from the taxpayer pay their contribution to the tax. This would not have arisen had a campaign not been launched not to pay the charge. It is a condition of the memorandum of understanding with the troika, upon whom we depend to get the money to run the education...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: One could have a household next door where the person, in terms of income, is in the same situation yet has paid the tax.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I am addressing the issue but members can ask me additional questions in their own time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Let me respond. Yesterday morning was the first time that I heard about the matter. The members have heard the answer that I gave and I am not resiling from that response today. There is a new system called the Student Universal Support System, SUSI. The legislation to facilitate it was introduced by my predecessor and the City of Dublin VEC won the contract to administer it. I am happy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I shall return to the points raised by Deputy Jonathan O'Brien. The sum of €77 million is additional moneys that I must find. Any changes that we make in the education budget in December will have an impact in September 2013 and for the following academic year. If a reduction is made by savings, we can only collect one third of it in 2013. Any changes I make in December will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: If it is not working then I ask the Senator to bring the instance to my attention and we can contact the publishers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Should we be talking about a book lending scheme or getting the intellectual copyright of a lot of the stuff to download it for free to whatever device a student uses?We are in a Gutenberg moment where devices will change. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked me other questions about fee-paying schools. The free voluntary scheme is what it says on the tin. All second level schools charged fees...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Yes. Please tell me to shut up when I speak too much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I will try to go through this as quickly as possible and give factual responses. Basic pay for primary schools, as distinct from increments, is 72% of expenditure, and it is the same for school teachers. Where we will go with this is set in the context of a new pay agreement, the second Croke Park agreement. In the Civil Service, one comes in at a recruitment grade of executive officer...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Including increments, basic pay amounts to 72% of what primary school teachers are paid. Qualifications allowances amount to 7%, post of responsibility allowances amount to 5%, supervision substitution allowances amount to 3% and substitution for things like maternity leave amounts to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: Sorry; this is the breakdown of the overall spend. I can make these figures available to members. They make more sense on paper and we will only take up valuable time now going through them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: On the subject of special needs assistants, we are undertaking a major review of the whole area of special needs education for the first time since 1993. We are looking at the breakdown in the allocation of time for resource teachers and special needs teachers, as well as the role of the SNA. It is time to review it and the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, and the section...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I am more constrained at second level because of the subject impact. With primary school teachers, the impact is the same in real terms because they teach the whole spectrum of the age classes and all of the subjects. Secondary school teachers, by definition, may have a speciality in two subjects. We do not know adequately what the impact would be in some schools if we were to disimprove...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: I am conscious of the time but I will come back and discuss this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Ruairi Quinn: In fairness, we are looking for €77 million. If we have an impact analysis with regard to pushing up the student fee by another €250, we will have some idea of what the impact will be and we can assimilate it to a certain extent. With other changes, we have to drill into the consequences of the saving to see whether there is a disproportionate negative impact and whether it...