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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (11 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children with Down's syndrome will be allocated resource teaching hours in the new academic year as a matter of right; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6335/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Postgraduate Enrolments (11 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a diploma in special education (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6334/15]

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: I strongly support the amendment tabled by Deputy Collins. Families in those situations have enough financial problems and this is the issue I am concerned about in regard to fees. Is there any way of assisting people with fees? This refers specifically to fees paid to personal insolvency practitioners.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Deputy Lyons should remember he is in power now.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: It is full of Labour Party members.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Like Greece, the Government will bring in the Army next.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Stop it.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Determined.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Deputy Durkan never protests.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Mr. Jack Lynch.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Yes. Poor people do not matter.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: You guys would never break the law.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: On a point of order, the Tánaiste is not answering the question she was asked.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Deputy Durkan should tell us-----

Order of Business (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Is the Tánaiste aware that a group of families and parents of children with Down's syndrome are threatening to bring a legal case against the State regarding the lack of resources available to their children in national primary schools? I ask this question in the context of the Down's Syndrome (Equality of Access) Bill 2013, which I brought forward and which was agreed to by the...

Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Put some smoking areas up there.

Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: Then you guys drive them underground.

Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2015)

Finian McGrath: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill. I, like many of my colleagues, welcome the debate. We all need to deal with valuation in the context of a modern and changing economic worry. Land and property must be managed in such a way that broader society does not suffer and people with small business who want to hire a few extra staff are not...