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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (4 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Officials in my Department have confirmed with SUSI, the new centralised grant awarding authority, that further supporting documentation was received from the student referred to by the Deputy on the 24th November 2012 and that her application will be reviewed shortly. SUSI will contact the student directly in relation to the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equality Tribunal Cases (4 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand from FÁS that a case was settled in advance of an Employment Appeals Tribunal hearing and that a payment was made by the employer (Board of the Community Training Centre). The details of the settlement are subject to a confidential legally binding agreement signed by both parties. The funding for the settlement was found from within the existing resources of the Community...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (4 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Government's Public Service Reform Plan recognises the key strategic importance of public procurement and provides for the development of a new policy framework for procurement. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has recently notified Departments and public bodies of the mandatory requirement to use central contracts, put in place by the National Procurement Service (NPS),...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (4 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I understand that in the case of the student referred to by the Deputy, his student grant application was unsuccessful and that he appealed the decision to the appeals officer in SUSI on 30th November 2012. SUSI aims to issue determinations as promptly as possible and within the specified timeframes defined in the Student Support Act, 2011. Where an individual applicant has had an appeal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (4 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 226 and 228 together. I have accepted the recommendations set out in a report commissioned by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) on the structures of initial teacher education. The purpose of the report was to identify possible new structures to improve initial teacher education in Ireland so that it is comparable with the best in the world. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Guidance Counsellors (4 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department's standard approach for helping to deal with particularly acute incidents in schools such as those highlighted by the school referred to by the Deputy is to provide some short-term support.In this regard I wish to confirm that my Department has approved some short term additional support for the school and the school management has been notified accordingly.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (4 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: My Department is currently considering an application for capital funding for an additional Mainstream Classroom from the school referred to by the Deputy. In this regard, my Department has been liaising with the school concerned and it will be in further contact with the school when a decision has been made.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Not so.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Not so.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy wrote the speech too early.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I move the following Financial Resolutions:

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I apologise to Members. Was I expected to move all four together?

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Does the Deputy want me to speak to them all now?

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I have moved all four together but will speak seriatim on them.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: It was the beginning of a disastrous slide to a zero tax base.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: In ghost estates.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Could we have that in writing, preferably engraved in stone?

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Was that a reply to a parliamentary question?

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: He never has before. Why would he start now?

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: So, Jim Gibbons was never beaten up by Fianna Fáil activists in the corridor.