Results 4,001-4,020 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Jonathan O'Brien: We have to get to a stage at some point where we are not in a position of having to front-load it. Are we saying that the Cassells report is going to address some of the reasons there are cashflow issues within the institutes?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Jonathan O'Brien: What is the cause of the pressure?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Jonathan O'Brien: Obviously, it is not just cashflow and as Deputy Ryan has observed, it cannot simply be a cashflow issue. There must be some reason behind it and there are some pressures on the system. Will the introduction of technological universities address some of the pressures the higher education institutions, HEIs, are experiencing? I am aware there is a proposal to bring through that legislation...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Jonathan O'Brien: If I might make an observation as a new first-term Deputy, I believe all the Departments work in silos. All Departments are fighting their own corner and there is no overarching examination of how the Government works. If one examines those countries that have some of the best education systems, such as Finland, they prioritise education. It is a joint decision by the Government, everyone...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Expenditure (8 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: 317. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 1 December 2015, if she keeps a readily available breakdown of the amounts paid to companies contracted to run State-owned direct provision centres; the parliamentary and public oversight mechanisms in place to monitor these multi-million euro contracts; and her plans to remedy this situation. [44104/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Expenditure (8 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: 318. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts paid to the operators of Knockalisheen direct provision centre, by operator and by individual contract, from its first use as a direct provision centre to the present. [44105/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (8 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools with delivering equality of opportunity in schools status that have merged with other schools since this status was introduced, and the number of the newly merged schools that maintained or received this status in tabular form. [43525/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (8 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: 468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances surrounding the loss of delivering equality of opportunity in schools status when Scoil Damhnait and McHale College merged to become Coláiste Pobail Acla in County Mayo, given that the larger McHale College previously had this status and took on the extra students when Scoil Damhnait closed, given that parents were...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the State Examinations Commission will complete its review of its procedures for allocating resources to assist leaving certificate students under the reasonable accommodations in the certificate examinations scheme. [43555/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (8 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish a food forum to address the issue of hunger in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43556/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (8 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will fund a scheme to deliver nutrition, cookery and healthy eating courses for parents within schools. [43557/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (8 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will develop an Educate Together school in County Galway, given that an independent demographic study commissioned by GET2LS, the Educate Together secondary level start-up group, clearly demonstrated a demographic need for a new school, and there are now five Educate Together primary schools in County Galway which between them accept...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Eligibility (8 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: 643. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide grant support through the sports capital grant programme or, following the closure of the local authority swimming pool programme, if he will relocate those funds to allow for the immediate upgrade of the University of Limerick arena facility in County Limerick, therefore ensuring the future of the sport of swimming...
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: It is not agreed.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: Yes.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: Surely the Whip has other legislation that can be introduced today. It is not acceptable that the business for today will be collapsed because we finished it yesterday. Is there no other pressing legislation that the Government can introduce today?
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: The House is sitting late next week and additional days have been added to schedule, yet the business for today will be collapsed at 2 p.m. because the Whip could not be bothered finding a Minister to come into the Chamber to discuss some pressing legislation. We have had guillotine after guillotine imposed and now today we have no business.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: There must be something be legislation on the priority list that the Government can bring in today.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: On a point of order, the fact that the legislation went through goes to prove that there was no need to guillotine the debate on the legislation yesterday.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)
Jonathan O'Brien: That was a proposal.