Results 16,841-16,860 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: I have just been informed by a colleague that the Department is actually telephoning schools but if the Deputy knows of specific schools which are having difficulties-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: That is right.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: The idea of co-ordinated procurement, which no previous Government really did in the manner being undertaken by the Department of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, is to use the purchasing power of 3,200 primary schools, turn them into one customer for electricity and exercise that bulk buying volume to reduce unit prices in terms of cost. Prior to that, there...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: The new national anti-bullying procedures, which have been adopted and will be implemented in 4,000 primary and post-primary schools, were launched September of last year. Funding of €60,000 was made available for anti-bullying training for parents which is being provided jointly by the National Parents Councils, primary and post-primary. There were some 105 parent anti-bullying...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: Programme D.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: If we were to try to work from a single programme next year, that would help us all. It might also save a forest in the process.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: It is confusing for all of us, me included. At what page should I look?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: I brought it to Cabinet yesterday. It has now gone out for a response. A specialist group has been set up and is headed up by Mr. Kevin Duffy, the chairman of the Labour Court, who started his career as an apprentice bricklayer and has an intimate knowledge of apprenticeships through time since he was on the council of AnCO and then FÁS. The subject is now out for consultation. The...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: If Deputy Ryan would copy the Department of Education and Skills with the specific information, and I do not wish to intrude on the privacy of the individual who came to his clinic. The whole thinking around Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, which brought FETAC and HETAC together into one qualifications framework is around ten qualifications. A qualification is a qualification and it...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: Through the Chair, I wish to ask members to highlight any such incidents of what I can only describe as academic snobbery and bring it to our attention. The qualifications framework was designed to eliminate that.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: I believe it has been raised with us. If the committee has written to the Department, we will examine the correspondence and respond once we have done so.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: It costs money to certify courses and ensure certification is sufficiently robust to allow a course take its rightful place in the qualification ladder. Certification of a course by Quality and Qualifications Ireland to the educational provider is one thing, while the way in which the provider charges course participants to recoup the money is another matter. If the committee communicates...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: As the Deputy will note from the briefing documentation, the reduction of approximately 70% is attributed to the impact of the Haddington Road agreement on salary costs and related savings, the €250 increase in the student contribution and the ongoing 1% cut in core pay and non-pay allocations to third level institutions announced in budget 2012. The reduced allocation also reflects...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: The first question was on the position on capital assets. There is no agreement between the two parties in coalition on broadening the base of the assessment from household income to reserves, savings or capital assets. It is not part of the programme for Government and, as I have said previously in public, that is the position at the moment. There may be some movement on broadening the...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: I will ask my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Ciarán Cannon, to deal with that because he has taken a strong personal interest and he is knowledgeable about the area.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: I agree with everything Deputy Cannon has said. That is why we are trying to change the Junior Certificate. The only area of collaboration at junior cycle is on a team of 15 or 11 to win a match, or in a musical or dramatic production, none of which is measured in the examination. In every other activity one is a sole trader and hides one’s essay as it is being written to prevent...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: Two schools stand out in the exhibition which has been running for 50 years. It started in Albuquerque in New Mexico where two lecturers from UCD saw a high school science fair and brought the idea back here. Synge Street, a famous school in Dublin’s inner city is in the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, space and has a cohort of students from new immigrant groups...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: I suggest that the Chairman invite Colm O’Neill, the CEO of BT Ireland to meet the committee. The Department has funded this and it is part of the corporate social responsibility activity for many BT personnel. It is not confined to the week of the exhibition. The personnel are involved in administering it in their own time for which they do not get paid. There is no Young...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: It is the follow-through of a budgetary measure adopted in 2012.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Ruairi Quinn: I will tell the Deputy where my head is at the moment. It is the same for people who decide to become secondary school teachers and the education colleges which are clustered around six centres. There is no distinction made in our funding for certain types of teacher. Three years ago the Independent News and Media group ran a campaign to find out how many qualified mathematics teachers...