Results 7,421-7,440 of 7,556 for speaker:Catherine Martin
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: No.
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: I am taking four and a half minutes and Deputy Healy is taking three minutes.
- Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: For the past six years the education system in this country has been slowly strangled. It has been called a managed decline by some of those presiding over it. Education is fundamental to the progress of any country. It allows us to innovate, will attract businesses, encourage job creation and enhance our reputation globally. As the Labour Party motion has rightly identified, budget 2017...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: In putting the question to the Minister, I was not asking him to defend the reform but to help the students and guarantee that they will not lose out on 10% of their marks in English. I hope the Minister can lead, prioritise, instil and inject a real sense of pressing urgency into the ongoing negotiations and that all involved will redouble their efforts to resolve the dispute but the...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: I am advocating for children.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: The Minister needs a plan B.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: Say that to the students, Minister.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: I have just left the meeting of the Joint Committee on Education and Skills where we had quite the discussion on an issue relevant to the Minister and to many junior cycle students and their parents as we near the end of the first term of the school year, which is the worry and uncertainty about the distinct possibility that because of the Government's ongoing dispute with the ASTI, thousands...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Grants: Wake Up SUSI (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: That is not a problem. I welcome the witnesses, a few of whom I have met already. It is appalling that they are being left in limbo. I think it was John F. Kennedy who said that education should be the greatest equaliser of all. There is no level playing field in this situation at all, and I am a firm believer in equal access. I was particularly struck by Mr. Byrne's contribution when he...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Grants: Wake Up SUSI (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: Ms Houlihan mentioned in her presentation that she met the Minister, Deputy Bruton, and she seems to be aware of the Cassells report. Did the Minister indicate any opinion on this or will he leave it to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority: Chairperson Designate (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: I welcome Mr. Horgan and thank him for his presentation. The previous chief executive, Mr. Tom Boland, retired in July. I believe his replacement announced that she would only be staying on for a few months. It is a key position. Is Mr. Horgan aware of plans to fill it? The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Richard Bruton, appeared before the committee a few weeks ago to brief us...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority: Chairperson Designate (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: Has Mr. Horgan a contingency plan in place in case there is a holding period?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority: Chairperson Designate (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: I might pursue that with Mr. Horgan at a later stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority: Chairperson Designate (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: Institutions flagged as borderline and their future are of concern to me, particularly if they are underwater.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority: Chairperson Designate (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: Institutional and sectoral progress.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority: Chairperson Designate (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: Good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: State Examinations: Motions (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: I move:That the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Skills asks the Minister for Education and Skills to move quickly to put in place a plan B to protect those students who might lose out on 10% of their grade in English due to the ongoing dispute between the ASTI and the Government. Recently, the Minister for Education and Skills appeared before the committee and said that he could...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: State Examinations: Motions (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: I have moved my motion. I will not be supporting the amendment because it seeks to remove the action which I believe is needed to protect the children and to signal to the Minister that he needs to ensure they do not lose the 10%. I am aware that the talks are ongoing but I believe the Minister needs to put a contingency plan in place. On the point regarding the undermining the integrity...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: State Examinations: Motions (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: In terms of procedure, when does one withdraw an amendment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: State Examinations: Motions (13 Oct 2016)
Catherine Martin: I do not want the motion, as amended, being sent to the Dáil.