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Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: What about corporation tax?

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: The decision to cut the hours of resource teachers should not have been made in the first place, as was decisively shown by the decision to reverse the cut. The country should protect the education system but many people believe it has hit rock bottom and there is very little to give. The pupil-teacher ratio has been increased twice in the past four years and careers guidance counselling...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: 12. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify his statement that pupil teacher ratios in schools may be increased to pay for the reversal of planned cuts to supports for children with special needs. [32053/13]

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: The Minister was not clear whether that would definitely happen, even though he raised it in the recent reports. By doing that, many people are scared the pupil-teacher ratio will be increased. This sounds very much like the last time, with the decision to reverse the cuts to the DEIS schools and the cuts to the grants to schools. The Minister is accepting the constraints of his budgets....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Completion Programme (3 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: 44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the proposals put forward by the SCP co-ordinator of the Dominican Campus School Completion Programme with the support of the three primary schools; if he has considered the proposals and when he will respond to the proposals. [32052/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (2 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of recent revelations about the low level of corporate tax paid by a number of high-profile companies based here, if he intends to change Ireland's corporate tax regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31888/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (2 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether additional measures beyond the recently passed personal insolvency legislation are now necessary in order to deal with the worsening mortgage crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31889/13]

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: I, along with those workers involved in providing resource services for children and disability groups, welcome the U-turn by the Government and the Minister. The point, however, is that these cuts to resource-teaching hours to children with special needs should never have been contemplated, let alone announced.

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: This measure would have meant a 25% cut in support hours for children with special needs over the past three years. These cuts were started by Fianna Fáil and continued on by the present Government with a Labour Minister. It is still the case that a 15% cut has already taken place. There is also the crucial issue of SNAs and those who physically support children with more severe...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: The claim by people with anti-choice, anti-abortion views and the Catholic Church that this legislation will open the floodgates to widespread abortion is a total misrepresentation. There is abortion in this country every day of the year, but it does not happen in the territory of the State. One can obtain information, access the right to travel outside the State and counselling, but the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Conventions (26 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: 196. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will sign the European Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence before the end of Ireland's presidency (details supplied). [30873/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Services Funding (25 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Health Service Executive funding for adult day services in Stewarts Hospital, Palmerstown, County Dublin, particularly in view of the fact that it relates to the next group of 18 year olds that would have expected to transfer to that service from this coming September.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30228/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (20 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: I agree with Deputy Donnelly. It is very hard for me to hold my temper when I hear the calculated response from the Government the Minister of State represents in trying to play a three-card trick and claim there is not a cut. One of today's newspapers highlighted the case of the Sacred Heart senior national school in Killinarden in Tallaght which applied for 90 resource teaching hours for...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (20 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: These are people at the coalface.

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (20 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: I have never heard anything so callous in my life. The Minister should talk and listen to the people on the coalface in secondary and primary schools, and not the NCSE.

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (20 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: I mean no offence to the Minister of State in pointing out that I submitted this matter with a view to having the Minister for Education and Skills come before the House to discuss it. His failure to do so highlights the need for Dáil reform. As Deputy Donnelly pointed out, support hours for children with special educational needs are about to be cut again, this time by 10%. With an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the An Post pension scheme and the fact that certain pension scheme trustees may have a conflict of interest between their role as a trustee and Executive Directors of an Post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29625/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. It is difficult to respond given that the Minister has indicated that the response to the question came from the Minister for Social Protection. A few peculiar things happened to the questions I tabled. I had submitted three questions, one priority and two oral. One priority question went to the Department of Social Protection and I was not told about it in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (20 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: I will table a question to the Minister next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: I welcome the witnesses from SUSI. One of the issues last year was staffing levels. Are there enough staff now to cater for applicants across the system? There were almost 70,000 applications for 2012-13, with 16,500 renewals from last year. Will there be the same number applying for first-time grants this year? Are there enough staff to deal with that? Are there figures for the number...