Results 5,221-5,240 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the future of special needs school services provided by an association (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27004/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (24 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism to ensure the best expertise will be available to the teacher education section, junior cycle for teachers and national induction programme for teachers considering that his Department is imposing a limit to the number of years a teacher can spend on secondment. [27174/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Children's Strategy (24 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: 698. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of administrative overheads for the compilation and development of the Better Outcomes: Brighter Futures national policy framework for children and young persons 2014-2020. [26616/14]
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: There is no transfer list in some counties.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: There is no transfer list.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister of State should wake up.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: She is not. There is no transfer list in some county councils.
- Order of Business (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: Could I ask the Minister about the terms of reference for the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes? The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Flanagan, said it is his intention to have the terms of reference set before the Dáil rises for the summer recess, with the investigation due to start before the end of the year. Is that still the case? Could the...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: I can assure the Minister a bevy of advisers did not get a hold of me. It is quite clear that a bevy of Fine Gaelers got a hold of the Minister, along with his colleagues in Cabinet who represent the Labour Party, and stripped them of every principle and moral they had.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: At a recent committee meeting, officials from the Department stated that people would be removed from council housing lists and would be put on a transfer list. Some councils do not even operate a transfer list. In the case of some of the councils which operate a transfer list, one is only entitled to a transfer on medical grounds, so it is not true to say-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: It is true.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: Many of us have sat on councils which-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: -----have transfer lists. There is no doubt that this is the most profound change in housing policy.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: It is not a positive change, as Deputy Stagg might like to spin it. This will condemn people-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: -----who have no choice but to accept a housing assistance payment. They will be taken off a council housing list and will be left at the mercy of private landlords and the private market. It is an absolute disgrace. I still encourage the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, and her Labour Party colleagues, to finally stand up-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: We are in the midst of a housing crisis, as the Minister is well aware. Tens of thousands of householders are in mortgage distress, almost 100,000 people are on social housing lists, 78,000 are in receipt of rent supplement and 5,000 are designated as homeless. As part of this Government's solution to that housing crisis, we will today conclude the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: Can I just ask about conflicts of interest-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: Thanks. Do the witnesses not think that the situation is strange? The bishop is patron of one primary school and a trustee of a neighbouring primary school. A proposal is made to close the school of which he is patron and to move the school of which he is a trustee into it. Do the witnesses not see the conflict of interest that could arise by having one individual as a patron of one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: Where the confusion arises is that initially, there was a proposal to enrol junior and senior infants. The next thing parents and teachers knew was that there was a proposal, which was presented as a proposal from ERST, to close the school and amalgamate it with St. Vincent's. Now when that hit the airwaves, there was pandemonium. We are talking about a school on a campus, which has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Edmund Rice Schools Trust (18 Jun 2014)
Jonathan O'Brien: What was the rationale for the proposal to close the school, which has all of the sports facilities and has the capacity to expand in the future, if needs be, and to amalgamate it with a school which has a school yard the size of this room? Nobody has answered those questions. What Mr. Bennett has told me is that what happened was that there was a proposal to address the falling enrolment...