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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: We will allow Ms O'Neill and Mr. Power to come in and if we do not get specific answers, we will come back again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Mr. Power. I believe Mr. Power will deal with the geographical information system, GIS.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Mr. Power said he would refer to south Kildare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: On that point, the GIS system is slightly skewed, particularly in respect of the Newbridge area, because of the fact that a private school is included. We cannot say there is an element of choice if a school place costs €8,000 a year for a child to go there. I definitely think that has a negative impact on the figures that are being used. We cannot say those places are open for any...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I absolutely believe that there is more of a crisis in Newbridge than Mr. Power is indicating. Over the last two or three years, parents have been approaching me on a regular basis who cannot get their children into schools. I accept that it is specific schools that they are trying to get their children into. However, parents are also concerned about the element of choice of education....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Mr. Power for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Will the witness refer to Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: The Deputy will have just one more supplementary question. That is all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I have one point, and I thank the witnesses for their frankness-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: To be fair it is never going to be an easy thing to come to the committee and satisfy all the different questions, and all the hopes and dreams that are represented by members for their constituents and all the children. This committee wants to ensure that every child has a very good educational experience within a modern classroom in a modern school. We accept that this is also the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: We will certainly take up the invitation to visit the Department at Tullamore. Mr. Loftus said that if we looked at all of the bills, we would certainly not choose St. Paul's, which was among the worst-case scenarios with which the Department has had to deal. There were a lot of hiccoughs to get to this point. Hopefully, we are now making progress. Mr. Loftus says the design team will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: That is fair enough. I thank the witnesses. We may agree to disagree on aspects of school delivery. I hope this has been a valuable exercise for the witnesses also in terms of listening to the principals earlier and understanding the huge amount of work they have to do around the learning and informal learning environment to have a positive impact on students' lives. They have to deal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: It was certainly helpful and informative from our point of view. I put Mr. Loftus on notice that I will be in contact with him very soon about south Kildare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I note to Deputy Byrne that we have to revert to private session for a few minutes.