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Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: This is ridiculous. The Minister is obsessed with me.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: He spends all his time reading our press releases.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: No more football. Sport is gone.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: They will be singing in the streets with that one.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: Exactly.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: How many extra psychologists is the Department appointing?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle should give the Minister more time.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: The net effect of yesterday's statement by the Minister for Finance to the House, in terms of the education budget, is that children will pay the price for Fianna Fáil's incompetence over the past five years. The children in primary and post-primary schools must pay the price for the Government's incompetence, waste and wanton disregard for financial stability. The Taoiseach lectured the...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: ——to recall those meetings and remind them of the blatant lies told by the Members opposite during the course of the election campaign. Let us revisit that campaign because we need to expose those who spoofed the Irish people and parents on this issue. In 2002, the then Minister, Deputy Mary Hanafin, promised that by 2007 no nine year old or younger would be in a class of 20 or more. As...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: I am in the hands of the Ceann Comhairle.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: In terms of the untruth then, in 2007 the Members opposite promised the staffing schedule would go from 27:1 to 24:1 in the first three years of this Government. What has happened? From 1 September next year we will have 400 fewer teachers in our schools. Class size is the second worst in the EU and we are behind a range of eastern European country which went through the communist era. It...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: Will the Government reconsider its proposal to slash the number of teachers in schools? Otherwise, it will feel the wrath of parents between now and 1 September. There is historical precedent for doing a U-turn on this. The then Minister, Deputy Mary O'Rourke, did it in the late 1980s and the Government should do it today.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: We also need clarity from the Government on the question of car parking charges. Will every teacher in the country who brings a car to a school car park have to pay the levy?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: Is this the Government's position? That is some selling point to the INTO, the ASTI and the TUI. The Government will have a lot of breakfast with that.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: One of the most cynical cutbacks is with regard to English language support. In the run-up to the 2007 election, following pressure from Deputy Enda Kenny, the leader of Fine Gael, the Government stated it would change the rules on the numbers of English language support teachers in schools with a substantial number of non-English speaking pupils. We are returning to pre-2007 levels....

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: His budget is now €6 million. There would be more taken over the meat counter in Tesco in Tallaght over six months than he has to spend in 12 months. Where is the Minister of State with responsibility for integration, Deputy Conor Lenihan?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: That was the best news I heard all day. On the issue of higher education, the new registration fees are effectively fees by the back door. This is the most inequitable unfair stealth tax ever imposed on the PAYE sector. I make no apology for my party's support with the Labour Party for abolishing fees in 1996. We did it for one reason. Whatever about arguments on access, and there is...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: This is the worst stealth tax and more importantly where is the Green Party? Has it signed up to it? It would be a most extraordinary U-turn if it has.

Budget Statement 2009 (14 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: We will have bigger classes. Class sizes are increasing.

Budget Statement 2009 (14 Oct 2008)

Brian Hayes: Give us the details now.