Results 5,921-5,940 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- School Staffing. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: I thank the Minister. The question merely required a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- School Staffing. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: In my question I asked the Minister how many schools would be affected by this change. He maintains that it will be somewhere between 10% and 15%, which on my reckoning is approximately 340 to 400 schools. Am I right in suggesting that?
- School Staffing. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: Effectively the Minister is saying that 400 schools will lose a teacher from next September. In his reply the Minister referred to the staffing schedule that existed in 2006-07. Would he not accept that since that time an additional 35,000 children have entered primary schools? We will have 500 fewer language support teachers within the system. For 28,000 children English is not their...
- School Staffing. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: I appreciate this useful opportunity, as it is the first time that the Minister has effectively admitted to the House that there will be 1,000 fewer national school teachers from September 2009.
- School Staffing. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: I did not talk over the Minister's reply.
- School Staffing. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: It is clear that the programme for Government's commitment to reducing the staffing schedule from 27:1 to 24:1 in the first three years will not come about, given the increase to 28:1. Will the Minister admit that there is no possibility of the commitment being honoured during the Government's lifetime? Will the Minister publish each school's enrolment figures, which were given to his...
- School Staffing. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: Then the aim will not be reached. The programme for Government's commitment is gone.
- School Staffing. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: The 2040 one.
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the level of capital spending available within his Department in 2009 for the schools building and modernisation programme. [38361/08]
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: The spin from the Minister and his Department since the announcement of the budget is that the capital expenditure in terms of the school building and modernisation programme has dramatically improved in 2009. Will the Minister confirm that the funding allocation for 2009, at â¬581 million, is less than the â¬586 million in 2008?
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: That is something we have not heard to date, despite the spin from the Department.
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: Will the Minister tell the House how many of the announcements made in the latter part of this year relating to school buildings will see funding provided in the 2009 Estimate? The vast majority of the projects recently announced have not yet started construction but how many will be funded by next year's expenditure?
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: I do not want figures off the top of one's head, I would like them from the brief.
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: When will the Minister revert to an initiative taken by a former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Noel Dempsey? He had a very accountable and transparent initiative where schools knew exactly where they stood on the list. That initiative was put to one side by the Minister's immediate predecessor, Deputy Mary Hanafin, and it has not yet been reinstated. When will schools know...
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: With regard to the great new initiative regarding value for money, will the Minister accept that with the 14 schools currently on his tender list â they have planning permission and tenders and are ready to go when the Minister gives the go-ahead â some â¬4.6 million has been spent on design fees? Does the Minister regard that as value for money when â¬4.6 million has been spent by...
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: I am looking for value for money.
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: They were never getting that.
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: I am talking about design teams.
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: I am referring to design. Has the Minister seen the letter?
- Schools Building Projects. (4 Nov 2008)
Brian Hayes: The letter would be on his desk.