Results 7,081-7,100 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: The Tánaiste should visit the schools.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: "Lingering animosity".

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: It is the way he asks them.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: There are not many of them on this side. Most of the Chairs are behind the Tánaiste.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: The education (patronage) Bill.

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she is satisfied with the budget allocation she received for her Department for 2008 in terms of meeting the commitments made in the programme for Government in respect of education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6866/08]

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: The Minister is aware that clear commitments were given in the programme for Government in respect of an increase of €350 million per year for educational services. She failed to make this increase available in the context of this year's Estimates. The Minister also alluded to the fact that there will be no reduction in primary class sizes this year. In addition, she failed to admit the...

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: Does the Minister not accept that any independent commentator would come to the conclusion that she has a real problem with the allocation of funding she received from the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance? One need not be the smartest cookie in the class to realise that if one seeks €315 million, the amount referred to in the programme, and one receives less than one third of that amount...

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: What is the position regarding the devolved grant?

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: That is a new cut. This is an extremely important point.

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: There was no mention of this in the press conference which followed the budget. Will the Minister outline, in unequivocal terms, the position in respect of the devolved grant for this year?

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: Will the grant be provided?

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: So it will not be provided.

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: So it is being axed this year.

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: When will the Minister make a statement on that matter?

School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the appropriateness, or otherwise of poetry (details supplied) remaining on the leaving certificate syllabus in view of the controversy surrounding the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6867/08]

School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: In response to the circumstances which arose in this case, the Minister last week said she was shocked and appalled. She speaks on everyone's behalf in that regard. Is the Minister aware the film will be put out on RTE in March and come into the public domain? It is fair to say it could cause a fair degree of controversy in classrooms up and down the country. In her reply, the Minister...

School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: My understanding is the Minister ultimately has power over the curriculum. She takes advice from the NCCA but what is on the curriculum is ultimately a departmental decision. Does the Minister believe it appropriate that this poet's work remains on the curriculum, given the circumstances alluded to in the national press? I put to her a comment made to me by a teacher recently. She stated...

School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: The Minister has ultimate power in this matter and must take advice from the NCCA. Is her position that this poet's work will remain on the curriculum and that there could well be a question about it over the next two years? Does the Minister have any intention of changing that?

School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)

Brian Hayes: The Minister put de Valera's book on the course.