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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: That is probably the answer we were looking for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: Does the Department base its targets on the outcome of previous years for the future?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: I think it is a great idea. It is fantastic to have targets and to try to achieve targets. It is very welcome. In respect of Vote 26, public sector activity and the compilation of an online inventory of school accommodation, in 2013, the Government had a target of 85, but there is no output at all for 2013. In 2014, the Government had a target of 90 and there is an output of 84, but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: I am talking about the online inventory of school accommodation. Why have schools not complied with it at this stage? It has been ongoing for three years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: I appreciate that, but we are now three years down the road. Surely we should have the information back from schools.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: There was an output for 2014. It was 84 compared with a target of 90.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: It is just strange that it has not been completed three years down the road.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: At this stage, three years later, surely the Department should have insisted that all the schools return an inventory list.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: Is there merit in setting targets based not on the schools but on the number of children who have made applications to NEPS or another service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: As many of the questions I would have raised already have been asked, I will not repeat them. The Department of Education and Skills provides no funding towards school meals, by which I mean breakfast clubs or lunch clubs. The Department of Social Protection provides funding for the food to the tune of 60 cent per pupil for breakfast and €1.40 for lunch. However, the problem is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: The point was on school transport and what happens if numbers drop. If ten pupils need transport a bus is provided, but one is not provided if only nine need it. Why are those nine children not as important as the ten children? Why can a small minibus or, if the number drops to four, a taxi not be provided instead of telling the parents that a remote transport grant or whatever is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: The point we made was that when it does get down to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: I am not sure we have, because the Minister of State was not in the room when I spoke, and I want clarification.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: Rural transport. I stated that when the number of passengers drops below ten and suddenly becomes nine, the bus is taken off the road. Why can we not reduce the bus size to a minibus to provide for nine or six? Even if it decreased to two, we could use a taxi. Fare-paying parents would still make a contribution. If one has free school transport and suddenly the bus is taken off the road,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: They are.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: I seek a clarification which should elicit a simple "Yes" or "No" answer. With regard to the provision of prefabs, does that apply to national schools that have a preschool operating out of a prefab on the grounds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: Does that mean the Department will not replace that type of prefab?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Moloney: I thank the Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)
Marie Moloney: I add my voice to Senator Bacik’s welcome for the nomination of Maíria Cahill for the forthcoming Seanad by-election. She will contest a selection convention in the Labour Party, should there be other nominees. If she is successful, or if there is no other nominee, then she will go on to contest the by-election. I welcome Senator Mooney’s announcement that Fianna...