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Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: With regard to the establishment day, when is it envisaged that the boards will be established?

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome what the Minister has outlined because, as I pointed out on Second Stage, it is important to get these issues right rather than arrive at an establishment day and have a debacle such as SUSI. By way of clarification can the Minister say if he hopes that all amalgamations would be in place by a particular date? Has he envisaged a particular date?

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I support my colleague, Senator Power, on amendment No. 5. The amalgamation of the two counties of Cavan and Monaghan requires that the parents whose children are attending the education and training board schools within that area should be given ownership of who represents them on the education and training board. It is not acceptable that a national body should decide parents X and Y...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I very much welcome the Minister?s invitation to us to make proposals. I am not sure I agree with having 12 councillors plus two members of staff deciding on the parents' representatives based on the nominations or expressions of interest that come forward. Is it not possible to consider a mechanism similar to any other election where people are nominated to stand for election whose names...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: By way of compromise, perhaps the Minister would consider the possibility of including an adult education officer on the board. Such officers deal with a very large population of learners who do not have a voice, including adult learners and over 3,500 YouthReach trainees. The possibility for parents of the latter group getting onto the education and training boards is very limited because...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: That is why they want to abolish it.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: Before agreeing the Title, I have a query on section 53(7), relating to the disposal of land or property by an education and training board. I ask the Minister to clarify the following: All moneys received by an education and training board on the sale or other disposal of land or any interest in land may be recovered by the Minister and where not recovered by the Minister shall be applied...

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: We could leave it over until Report Stage. I simply with to put the Minister on notice. The money should be ring-fenced for an appropriate purpose.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I merely ask the Minister to clarify this matter before Report Stage..

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: Accusations to the effect that a great deal of hot air emanates from this Chamber are sometimes made. There is certainly no hot air coming from the radiators this morning. I join colleagues in paying tribute to Jimmy Walsh. I have come to know Jimmy during the past 11 years and he is exactly as a number of previous speakers have noted, namely, very accurate, balanced and courteous. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I am disappointed that the Labour Party has chosen to engage in a personal attack on the Taoiseach - the chairman of the Cabinet - in order to prevent its candidate from coming fourth in the by-election in Meath East. Will the Leader invite the Minister for Justice and Equality to come before the House in order that we might discuss, openly and frankly, the difficulties which continue to...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: -----democratically representing, in the only way possible, the members of their organisation. The individuals in question were mandated by the Carlow-Kilkenny district of An Garda Síochána to do what they did. It is sad if they are to be disciplined for taking democratic action in the only way open to them.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I have seen the leaflet. It is outrageous.

Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: Certainly.

Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: The Senator would be well aware of what we thought.

Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: It is St. Jude the Government needs.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: Will Senator Coghlan make himself available as a mediator?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I second Senator Barrett's amendment to the Order of Business. I join the leader of my party in calling on the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, to come to the House. I ask the Deputy Leader to set aside quite a few hours for a debate as there are many issues to be discussed. Those issues include: the low morale in the Garda Síochána; the depletion in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.

Seanad: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (23 Apr 2013)

Diarmuid Wilson: I support Senator Mooney 100% in what he has put forward. I ask the Minister to accept amendment No. 4 regarding parental representation on the education and training board. We outlined our argument on Second and Committee Stages. I appreciate the costs involved in the current electoral system to VECs. It is very costly, but all we are asking is that the Minister accept this amendment...