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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.

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 okay.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I appreciate that. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan.

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, Deputy Halligan.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: I am looking for approval for subhead A9, which deals with the addition of €8 million to transport. Is that agreed? Agreed. Subhead A11 deals with grants to primary and post-primary education bodies. Are there any questions on that? If not, I will ask for agreement in regard to the additional €2 million. Agreed. Subhead C4 deals with general grants to universities,...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017)

Fiona O'Loughlin: Before I go back to the Minister of State, I want to comment on the whole issue of prefabs. On Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's point, there should definitely be a better system. A building which is already there could be utilised and supported financially rather than maintaining existing prefabs which have gone way beyond their sell-by date. There is also possibility of new prefabs. I thought we...