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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the effect of his decision to allow schools to manage guidance provision from within their existing pupil teacher ratio; and the effect of this on schools in Cork city and county. [39992/11]

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach serious?

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: That is a very misleading statement to the House. The Taoiseach should correct it.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: People will be aghast at what he has said. Guidance counsellors throughout the country will be aghast.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is beyond belief the Taoiseach could say that. It is incredible stuff, and the Minister for Education and Skills is silent.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Circulars will have to be issued on this.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is disgraceful.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: It should be more substantial than previous briefings.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Talk to the Labour Party backbenchers.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach would need to be careful with language and restrain himself. There has been no revolution in social protection.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The only revolution is that people are being savaged-----

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Labour activation measures have been a feature of the social welfare system for the past two decades. It has never been the case that people just sign on. That has not been the case for many years. What has happened in this budget highlights the flaw in the economic management council. We were told it went through things line by line. The Taoiseach said it had 14 meetings. We know from...

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----that the Taoiseach and the members of the council were aware of all these cuts as far back as 9 September, yet no one seemed to see the unfairness of them-----

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----and the impact they would have. Given that the Ministers for Finance, Transport, Tourism and Sport, and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and others-----

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, I am trying to ask a question. I have never come across this interference-----

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----and I have been in this House a long time.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: But the Ceann Comhairle tends to have an awful tendency to interrupt people when they are legitimately asking a question.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is not on, with the greatest of respect.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: I am not making a statement. I am trying to come a question-----

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----but the Ceann Comhairle has a habit of interfering when he does not like maybe some of what has been said.