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- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have.
- Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A number of parents of children with special needs are in the Gallery today. Can the Minister give them any hope? Some of their children have very severe special needs requirements. One child, Aisling McEniff's five year old son, is unique in the world. He has been in intensive care eight times and has had two heart operations. He has Down's syndrome and-----
- Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He has been approved for a special education place but because there is no sanction for another SNA, her child cannot get into school. Can the Minister offer them any hope or is he telling them there is no hope because we have to pay off the IMF?
- Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are needed.
- Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children, that have been recommended by the National Educational Psychological Services, that are being denied access to resource hours due to the current review being carried out under the Employment Control Framework for Education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9893/11]
- Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister wrote to schools in March and instructed them to stop allocating resource hours to pupils on foot of the review of the numbers employed in the area of education which was demanded by the IMF. This means that children who have been lucky enough to receive assessments from NEPS and who are obliged to wait months for such assessments will not now get what they are due. The stress...
- Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it not make more sense to give these children the resources they require?
- Order of Business (4 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Following publication of the McCarthy report, the Taoiseach indicated in response to questions put to him in this House that he would be open to a debate on it. Those of us who believe it is a plan to asset strip the country to pay back the IMF and the bankers would like to know when a debate will take place on the McCarthy report.
- Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is outrageous.
- Written Answers — Banking Sector: Banking Sector (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will name the bondholders of the Irish banks who were repaid between 29 September 2008 and to date in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9713/11]
- Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 90: To ask the Taoiseach the areas of policy on which he will answer questions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9682/11]
- Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 91: To ask the Taoiseach the areas of social and economic policy on which he will answer questions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9683/11]
- Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 92: To ask the Taoiseach the areas of European affairs on which he will answer questions and if these include discussions, agreements and pacts with our EU partners and EU institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9684/11]
- Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 93: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of all his forthcoming foreign engagements, meetings with foreign political leaders and meetings with EU representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9685/11]
- Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 94: To ask the Taoiseach if he will be meeting with representatives of industry, business, trade unions and representatives of civil society to specifically discuss job creation and economic recovery; the persons he is scheduled to meet and the dates of the meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9686/11]
- Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of all his meetings with International Monetary Fund representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9685/11]
- Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any responsibility [i]vis-Ã-vis [/i]State and State sponsored bodies to ensure their accountability to both Government and the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9687/11]
- Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance the process under which the Central Bank contracted the Boston Consulting Group, Barclay's Capital and BlackRock Solutions to conduct the stress tests on the Irish banking system; if he will address, in particular, the reasons BlackRock Solutions was hired; the amount it was paid and the tendering process it undertook. [6900/11]
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Finance if BlackRock Solutions or, any of its subsidiaries, manages any assets for the National Asset Management Agency in view of the conflict of interest between its current role and its position as the world's largest assets management agency; and if it has given the State a guarantee not to become a client of NAMA in the future [6901/11]
- Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (3 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the crisis in Irish Life and Permanent and his response to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6902/11]