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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: 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...
- 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. We propose that D03 be agreed. Is that agreed? Agreed. I want to note the offsetting savings because they are all under different subheadings. I note and will invite comment on them separately. We do not have to vote on them. I note A04 relates to savings in respect of post-primary teachers' salaries. A07 refers to savings in respect of non-teaching staff...
- 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 any other questions and come back to the Minister. Are there any other queries or questions?
- 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 make a few comments myself. On subhead AO7, I assume non-teaching staff salaries means ancillary staff such as caretakers and secretaries who are in many ways the infrastructure of the school. It is important that we have good people who are well-supported and well-resourced. I note this relates to delays in filling vacancies. In general, we have to recognise those who are in...
- 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 all right if one looks at the percentages.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: We had a special session to address apprenticeships and skills. That background information would be very helpful. I ask for that to be forwarded to the clerk.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: We will circulate it to members then.
- 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 great. I thank the Minister and the Minister of State. I propose that we note the offsetting savings. Is that agreed? Agreed. Does the Minister wish to make some concluding remarks.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) Fiona O'Loughlin: That concludes our consideration of the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 26. I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and their officials for attending. I also thank members for their contributions.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Message to Dáil (5 Dec 2017)
Fiona O'Loughlin: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Education and Skills has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2017: Vote 26 - Education and Skills.