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- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (2 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Transport the remuneration and entitlements for board members of an authority (details supplied) including company car, health insurance, pension add-ons where applicable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45029/09]
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (2 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Transport if an authority (details supplied) covered the cost of any ministerial travel, entertainment or functions during 2007 and 2008; if so, the Ministers involved and the costs incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45034/09]
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (2 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Transport the way the decision to create three boards for the airports under the control of an authority (details supplied) was reached; the cost to run these three boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45038/09]
- Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (2 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Transport if it is justified to proceed with the construction of terminal 2 at Dublin Airport in view of the fact that passenger numbers are falling at the airport, particularly with the expected increase in airport charges to follow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45039/09]
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (2 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Transport if an authority (details supplied) has ever been the subject of an external audit; if so, if he will furnish this Deputy with a copy; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45040/09]
- Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (2 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the efforts that have been made by the Irish Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to respond to an incident involving an Irish person (details supplied); the progress of the investigation on this case; if a progress report was ever communicated to the person concerned who is now residing here; if the matter was raised between his...
- Third Level Charges. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the fact that funds generated from third level college registration fees are used to supplement core funding for higher level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44461/09]
- Third Level Charges. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: If a college charges â¬1,500 for student services but only provides â¬500 for those services, would the Minister describe it as a scam? Would he advise those colleges to repay those students concerned who have been overcharged?
- Third Level Charges. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: From information we have from the accounts of two universities, University College Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin, we can take it that two thirds of what they charge students is diverted to supplementing their core grants. Does the Minister agree they should pay back the students concerned? Is it not the case the Minister is misleading students - or at worse defrauding them - because he...
- Third Level Charges. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Will he agree there is no accountability and transparency in this method? Will he also agree the documents put into the public domain by two universities and their students unions show that two thirds of what students are charged for actually supplements the core grant the Minister and the Government have already taken from the universities?
- Third Level Charges. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Should those universities repay those students? That is a straight question and does not need a Second Stage speech. Can we have a straight answer to a straight question?
- Third Level Charges. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: It is not.
- Grant Payments. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the discussions between his Department and the voluntary Protestant secondary schools regarding cutbacks announced in budget 2009. [44462/09]
- Grant Payments. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: The words of Mandy Rice-Davies come to mind. She famously said "Well, he would, wouldn't he?" The same applies to the Minister and his Department. We have been through this previously. Angry words have been expressed on all sides of this House. I am only concerned with one thing, namely, sorting out this issue and resolving it. I wish to make a proposal to the Minister for his...
- Grant Payments. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: The Minister is not ruling out the possibility of an increase in the block grant. This is the means through which the State currently allows children from poorer Protestant backgrounds to go to these schools on a geographical basis. As the Minister is aware, many counties in the Twenty-Six Counties do not have post-primary ethos-led education for those children. Perhaps the Minister will...
- Grant Payments. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: There are reasons for that.
- Grant Payments. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Is it the Minister's intention to bring forward proposals to resolve this issue in the context of the forthcoming budget or by the end of the year, or is the Minister waiting to hear from some elements of the Protestant community before this issue is resolved? We all have a responsibility to resolve the mess that has been created. I will not outline the history of it but it was created for...
- Schools Building Projects. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- School Discipline. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: This is sending out a very bad message to schools. The Minister has just told the House that over the past three years, one has had a one in two chance of having one's suspension overturned by making an appeal to the Department of Education and Science. In the case of an expulsion, one's chance is better than one in four. That says two things. It tells me that the local decisions of...
- School Discipline. (1 Dec 2009)
Brian Hayes: They would not go.