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Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: The Minister's party was in charge then.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: It is a pity that the Minister did not tell that to the Minister of the time.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Ten years later. Why did the Minister not do it ten years ago?

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: That is correct.

Order of Business (27 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Not before the election.

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (22 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools which had been granted permission to tender for new school buildings or extensions to existing buildings that have recently been informed that they may not proceed to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30344/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Circulars: Departmental Circulars (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in respect of her answer to the Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 13 November 2007, she will set out exactly where in the past the High Court, specifically the cases involved, have found that items such as Department of Education circulars have legal effect where the circulars have not been transposed into Irish law by way of...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Question 280: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will put the 1999 Revised Curriculum 1999 into regulatory form as stated by her in comments she made to Dáil Éireann on 13 November 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30051/07]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Question 295: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason an application for a school extension from a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary, which was formally granted an extension in the summer of 2002, has some five years later, failed to move to the planning and tendering stage within her Department; when she anticipates that the school will be given approval by her...

Written Answers — Censorship of Publications: Censorship of Publications (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the considerable number of shops, petrol stations and book stores which display magazines with pornographic images on them, which are freely available to children without having a sealed cover bearing the name of the magazine on it before it is sold; his views on legislation to ensure...

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Is there an embargo on recruitment?

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: I thank all my colleagues who have contributed to the debate which has proved very useful. I asserted in the House last night that there would be a 6% reduction in the budget for the NEPS next year and expected the Minister or the Minister of State to tell me I was wrong. We have established, both last night and tonight, as Deputy O'Donnell rightly pointed out, that next year there will be...

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: I apologise, the figure is €26,000. The Minister has not delivered on her promises. Before the last general election, when it came to her attention that 29 schools had been chucked out of the NEPS scheme, she reinstated them, rightly so. Many were in her constituency. I want her to give me advice for the schools in my constituency. I thought Deputy O'Connor would mention it when he saw...

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: The reason we want to give the Minister responsibility for speech and language services is that there is an embargo on the recruitment of additional speech and language therapists because they come from the Department of Health and Children. Not only is the Minister failing to deliver on her specific commitments to the House, she has also failed to put in place a proper system to adequately...

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: I will make this final point. The Minister is aware of a report which she has had on her desk for the past year and a half, namely, the implementation report from the National Council for Special Education. I asked the Minister a straight question in the House today and received a reply. A total of 42 actions are to be implemented in this area by her Department and related agencies for...

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: The simple point is accepted.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: Correct.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Brian Hayes: After all that, the Deputy will still not get a job out of it.