Results 4,281-4,300 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: Is the Minister of State confirming that the 250 places on continual professional development courses will remain next year?
- Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: Can the Minister of State repeat that?
- Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: Yes, I do.
- Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: The jobs are either there or they are not. The Minister of State told the House there are no redundancies. Now he says they are subject to the allocation for next year. We have the allocation for this year. Are the teachers to be replaced next September?
- Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: Houston, we have a problem here. The argument made by the Minister of State is that, through Project Maths, he will roll out a new scheme. It is, effectively, a curriculum change and does not help teachers who do not have mathematics in their primary degree. Is the Minister of State confirming that there will be no job losses in the continual professional development unit of his...
- Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: That is the problem.
- Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: There is not much evidence of it.
- Teaching Qualifications. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: Now I know why the Minister gave the Minister of State, Deputy Lenihan, this question.
- Student Support Schemes (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: The question was about whether we will have more PLC places next year. It is good that we have managed to effectively increase the number by approximately 8,000 between the 1,500 additional places and the 6,500 places which have come from the sector. The problem is that when unemployment was at 150,000 three years ago, there were 30,000 places. Unemployment is now more than 440,000 and...
- Student Support Schemes (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: The Minister of State and I had the opportunity to attend an Aontas public meeting last week and the key issue brought to our attention was the crisis affecting many older students in terms of the back to education allowance. The Minister of State said he would look into the issue to see if greater flexibility could be shown to those students in the PLC sector. Has he given any...
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: How many special needs assistants have lost their position in the past six months?
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: I asked a straight question. Will the Minister answer it?
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: I do not want to hear waffle.
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: The Minister has stated regularly in the House and elsewhere that in the event of a student with a special needs assistant leaving a school, the SNA post should be removed. I concur with his position on that issue. How many such cases has he encountered?
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: The Minister should give us the figures.
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: I remind the Minister that this is the national Parliament and it, rather than the Minister, established the National Council for Special Education. If this Parliament determines to find out the number of posts lost, it should be given the relevant information. The view abroad is that the NCSE is doing the Minister's dirty work and he is hiding behind a new quango, having instructed it to...
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: Is the Minister satisfied with the manner in which the NCSE has consulted the parents of children from whom it is removing SNA posts? Is he satisfied with the alleged appeals system put in place, which involves a senior special educational needs organiser, SENO, coming to a view of a decision taken by an SENO in another county? I have asked two straight questions.
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: Is the Minister satisfied with the NSCE's consultation with parents?
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: Is the Minister satisfied with the current system?
- Special Educational Needs. (4 Mar 2010)
Brian Hayes: I invite the Minister, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, to visit this school in Balrothery in my constituency, which is also that of the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, to see at first hand that school, those children and the teachers in that school. If those children were not in that school, there would be nowhere else for them because many of them attempted to go to other schools but could...