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- Neurological Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I speak on behalf of the approximately 750,000 people who have been diagnosed with a neurological disorder. We must bear in mind that more than 25,000 of those are struggling to get the services that they need to prevent disability and support their recoveries from conditions such as stroke, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. Demand for services is likely to...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: We all knew about it.
- Situation in Syria: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Deputy Brendan Smith for sharing time. We all remember the news bulletins and social media reports last year showing terrified men, women and children in Aleppo. We watched in horror as civilians were killed on the spot in their homes, as bombs rendered hospitals and schools out of service and thousands of people fled in search of safety. The fall of Aleppo demonstrated what...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: First, I offer congratulations on behalf of the committee to our former member, Deputy Josepha Madigan, who has now gone on to higher things. If this is a sign of things to come, I imagine Deputy McLoughlin will be getting the call-up soon. We have had three Fine Gael Deputies in this committee and they are all Ministers now. We are watching Deputy McLoughlin for the next vacancy.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: It is a great sign of the quality of the Deputies that we have in the Select Committee on Education and Skills.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: The meeting has been convened to consider the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 26 – Education and Skills. We will have the opportunity to go through the Supplementary Estimate line by line. Essentially, it deals with salaries, superannuation, school transport and grants. I will make two comments around teachers before we move to the Ministers. One of the major needs we have at...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: Does the Minister of State wish to comment?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: I will take questions from all the members before I revert to the Minister and Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, a former Minister for Education and Skills.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: Does Deputy Funchion wish to make some opening remarks?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: There is the opportunity to do that because we will be going through the Estimates line by line. I propose that we start with primary teachers' salaries with an allocation of €7 million.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: That is fine. I will start with the Minister, Deputy Bruton.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: When we are getting into the particular subheads, there are a few issues in relation to them that we would all like to offer thoughts on. Now I will move to subhead A03, primary teachers' salaries of €7 million, which is the first one. Is that agreed? Agreed. Is subhead A05, ETB teachers' salaries, the extra allocation of €3 million, agreed? Agreed. SNA salaries, subhead...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: Are there any other queries in that regard?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: I fully support that.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: Strictly speaking, it should have been raised under the previous subhead, A06, but I will allow it at this point.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: I thank the Minister, Deputy Bruton, for that. I am moving on to subhead A9 on school transport. I refer to school transport for children with special needs to bring them to the place that best suits them. I am dealing with a situation which I suggest is probably not atypical. A child with an intellectual disability has been assigned to a particular school but has not been given...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: I would be delighted to do so. I appreciate it. That is why I am choosing to raise it here.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: It should not.