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School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: Will it be done by 2012?

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: Will bonus point for mathematics be in place by 2012?

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: Is that a "Yes"?

Institutes of Technology (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: As the Minister of State is aware, his late father, even in the most difficult of times and much to his credit, managed to push through development projects that were needed in this city and elsewhere. I put it to him that what is required is a Government commitment to allow the strategic development zone plan to proceed. I understand that a very quick form of planning applies in this...

Institutes of Technology (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: It is crucial that the Government should make the decision to which I refer. I understand there is cross-party support for and consensus in respect of such a decision being made.

Institutes of Technology (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: We could probably build then the campus on a piecemeal basis and over a longer period. However, it is crucial that the Government should make its decision as soon as possible.

Departmental Agencies (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: Yes.

Pupil-Teacher Ratios (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: The issue in this regard pertains more to class sizes than to pupil-teacher ratios, as the latter are arrived at by adding up all teachers, principals and everyone else and dividing them by the number of children in the school. That does not tell one much. The real issue pertains to class size and as the Tánaiste is aware, this has worsened considerably in the course of the last two years,...

Pupil-Teacher Ratios (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: Of this year?

Pupil-Teacher Ratios (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: The numbers are increasing. The Department does not have a choice.

Pupil-Teacher Ratios (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: The Government must do so.

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary schools that have dropped a science subject in the 2009-10 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18572/10]

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: On a point of order, I understood the Tánaiste was due to take this question.

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: This question relates to the Tánaiste's brief. With the greatest respect to the Minister of State-----

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: Is this a no-show policy on the Tánaiste's first day or something?

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: Would the Minister of State start again please?

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: Now that the Tánaiste is in the House, I expect she will take the supplementary questions, because this is a matter for her rather than for her junior Minister.

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: It is a matter for record that -----

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: The Tánaiste is here now and I would be interested in hearing her reply to the question I will now pose. On 24 July 2008, the Tánaiste stated, "I am not the Minister for Education, but we must incentivise maths and science. The science agenda and the skills agenda are uppermost in my mind." In her previous position as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, she rightly highlighted...

School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Brian Hayes: The Minister of State is many things, but he is not a ventriloquist. He is defending the policy of the Government on the question of science in our schools, but has admitted to the House, using figures provided by the Department, that close to 10% of secondary schools in the country have dropped a science subject. Therefore, the ASTI is wrong when it states that more than one-third of...