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Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

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Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I do not need any help, Mattie.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: They attempt to say there is another way and the cuts can be avoided or we do not have to repay the €1 billion. The terms of the deal with the only group in town that will lend us the money is that we cannot burn the bondholders.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on health, Deputy Kelleher is well aware of the background to all of this. He asked numerous questions and I understand he tabled questions to the Minister last week. If the Deputy is unable to table a question and pursue a correct and detailed answer from the Minister directly involved, it is more a reflection on Deputy Kelleher.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Deputy Kelleher is trying to-----

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am quite satisfied, on the information I have received from the Minister, that the location of the site in Balbriggan is in accordance with the selection criteria. The story in today's edition of the Irish Independent is one that the Minister has dealt with satisfactorily. If Deputy Kelleher has detailed questions, which clearly he has, but to which he has failed so far to get a...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Deputy Kelleher has attempted to use the protection of this House to suggest there was some financial impropriety in-----

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: -----conferring a financial advantage on a political supporter.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The site in question was selected by Ms Mary Harney when she was the Minister for Health and Children.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Arts education (visual arts, music and drama) is one of the seven curriculum areas that comprise the primary curriculum, which was revised in 1999. Therefore all primary school children have access to an arts programme.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The information sought was forwarded by letter to the Deputy on 25 September 2012.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to advise the Deputy that the value of sites acquired for use in the public capital programme from private landowners by my Department amounted to just under €5m in 2010, and €10.25m in 2011. Table 1 contains the details. In addition, during 2010, my Department provided just under €9.13m in funding to a number of Vocational Education Committees to facilitate the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The teachers to whom the Deputy refers are employed by County Cork Vocational Education Committee. This information is not held by my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: As announced in March this year, County Dublin VEC will be patron of the new primary school opening in Lucan in September 2013. This school will be a multi-denominational, English medium, co-educational primary school. Officials in my Department are working, in liaison with the patron body, to secure appropriate accommodation for this school to open in September 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The school referred to by the Deputy received funding under my Department's Summer Schemes in 2007 and 2010 for window replacement projects. Funding was issued in 2009 for toilet upgrade works. The school also received funding in 2010 under my Department's Energy Efficiency Scheme for wall insulation and were allocated funding earlier this year to replace equipment in the school's Home...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (3 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The circumstance of this employment have been examined in detail by both my Department and City of Dublin VEC. The person concerned has accessed relevant appeal procedures. There is no further role for my Department in this matter.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Third Level Funding (2 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Senator for raising this important matter. The Senator may recall that the national strategy for higher education to 2030, a 20-year national strategy for the development and delivery of higher education, was launched in January 2011. The strategy recommends a number of system changes that are aimed at supporting the objectives of the report, including a sustainable system of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Health Services (2 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Senator for her question. I very much welcome the opportunity to outline the current position with on Portumna primary health care centre. As the Senator will be aware, the programme for Government sets out the Government's commitment to ensuring a better and more efficient health system; a single-tier health service that will deliver equal access to health care based on need,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Support Services (2 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 141 and 142 together. Springboard, which was first launched in May 2011, is a specific initiative that strategically targets funding of free part time higher education courses for unemployed people in areas where there are identified labour market skills shortages or employment opportunities. A report of the first stage evaluation of Springboard which was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (2 Oct 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I can inform the Deputy that all primary and post primary schools have access to psychological assessments either directly through the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS), or through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), full details of which are on the Department's website. Where a NEPS psychologist is not assigned to a school, authorities therein may...