Results 21,661-21,680 of 23,989 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: I wish to ask a general question on third level funding. Over the lifetime of this Government and the Minister's period in the Department of Education and Skills, in what direction is funding going? Does he envisage putting forward proposals to address the issue of third level funding? The funding of third level institutions has been decreased by the guts of 20% at a time when student...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: We seem to be discussing an assessment of savings and cash rather than working capital, that being fixtures and fittings, machinery, land and business premises.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: I accept the Minister's point that the schools are the employers, but the Department is the payer. If the Department was to take a tough line with a school that had notified it of employing a retired teacher and require the school to provide an explanation of what effort it had made to find a new teacher in search of work, more could be done. I accept that a circular has been issued, but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: Yes. It relates to the two points that have been discussed. The Minister indicated that the cost to the Department of resource teachers this autumn would be €7 million. Does that amount cover them being employed from 1 September or later in the term?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: The amount does not relate to resource teachers starting on 1 September or in October or November, but to the additional demand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: It is not clear. Given the fact that the 500 posts have been moved forward, the cap will be reached as of 1 September.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: The €7 million refers to teaching posts in excess of the cap, be that 300, 400 or 500 teachers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: I wish to clarify the issue of working capital under the capital assets test. The test is still on the table, in that it is still being discussed and has not been ruled out. I was trying to assess whether the Minister believed that working capital included, for example, business premises or land. He has indicated that it is cash flow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister has in mind cash rather than fixed assets like land or premises. I have no issue with that. If someone has €200,000 or €300,000 in the bank, grand. Whether one is PAYE or-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister is considering cash assets. If a notional value was put on land or business premises, a person could only access that value for the purpose of sending someone to college by selling the asset.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister does not believe that should be the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: Land and farming assets would be excluded from the capital assets test.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: We seem to be discussing savings. When a farming enterprise's accounts are done at the end of a year, its working cash is regarded as profit. The farm assist scheme, which is essentially the farmer's dole, is based on a previous year's income and may only amount to a small payment. The farmer is expected to make enough income over the course of that year to bring him or her up to the level...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: Have savings been accrued since the agreement was signed? What needs to happen before savings are accrued?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: Can I ask about the Minister's last comments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister indicated that €22.5 million could be the cost in regard to the resource teachers. Will he break down how that cost will come about? Does it apply to 2013 or 2014? Those 500 teachers who were held back for the autumn period will now be employed from September, so there will obviously be a cost from September to December. What is that cost? What is the current...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: That is to bring the 500 forward to September.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: There will be a demand for teachers to be provided in the autumn. I presume they will start when they are allocated so where are we at-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: At the same time last year, some 500 would have been held back. At the start of this year, the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, held 500 back for expected demand in the autumn. What the Minister has done is to bring those 500 forward to meet existing demand, as such, when the NCSE had held those 500 back for a demand it expected in the autumn. It would be fair to assume that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: 2014 Pre-Budget Submission: Department of Education and Skills (17 Jul 2013)
Charlie McConalogue: That is the 500 the Minister has brought forward.