Results 761-780 of 1,981 for speaker:Conor Lenihan
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: I did not call anyone a fascist.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: I said his policies were associated with the British Fascist Party.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: I said the policies were fascist.
- Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: I have nothing to apologise for. I referred to policies.
- Schools Refurbishment. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it provides me with the opportunity to outline to the House the position with regard to the proposed building project for St. Brigid's national school, Palmerstown, Dublin 20. St. Brigid's national school is a fully vertical, all-girls school, which means it caters for pupils from junior infants to sixth class, inclusive. It has a current...
- Departmental Funding. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: I am pleased to be given the opportunity, on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, to clarify the position in relation to the withdrawal of certain grants from Protestant fee-paying schools. The statement by the Minister, Deputy O'Keeffe, on the budget made it clear that the Protestant block grant remains in place. For that reason, the...
- Schools Building Projects. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it provides me with the opportunity to outline to this House the position with regard to the incident which occurred at Hedgestown national school, Lusk, County Dublin, last week and the Department's plans to provide a new building for the school. Hedgestown national school is a fully vertical co-educational facility. This means that it caters...
- Schools Building Projects. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: Due to the extent of the demand on the Department's capital programme, the Minister is not in a position to indicate a timeframe as to when the project will be approved to proceed but a band two rating is the second highest band rating possible and this means that the project is well positioned to advance once the requisite funding is available. The Minister wants to assure the Deputy that...
- Written Answers — Language Programme: Language Programme (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: Language support teachers are appointed to assist schools in providing additional English language support for pupils for whom English is a second language. There are over 2,000 Language Support Teachers in primary and post- primary schools, at a current cost of approximately â¬120 million per annum. The number of full- time teaching posts has been increasing as follows: School Year...
- Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: Notwithstanding the increase of â¬302 million in the Education budget for 2009, which is a real achievement in the current economic climate, a number of tough and difficult decisions had to be taken. These decisions included reducing the level of language support teachers from a maximum of 6 extra teachers per school to a maximum of 2 teachers per school â as was the case pre 2007. This...
- Hospital Services. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: I will be taking this matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney. The Teamwork report, prepared for the Health Service Executive clearly indicated that the service configuration in the north-east region was unsustainable. It recommended a reconfiguration of hospital services across the existing five hospital sites in order to ensure the highest...
- Hospital Services. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: ââis the need to improve safety and achieve better standards of care for patients in the region.
- Hospital Services. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: As part of the reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the north east the HSE has previously indicated that it plans to transfer acute inpatient services from Monaghan to Cavan and to develop additional services at Monaghan.
- Hospital Services. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: The HSE is working to ensure that the changes planned are introduced in a structured manner. This requires that specific measures are put in place and bedded down prior to, or in parallel with, the planned transfer of acute care to Cavan General Hospital. In particular, it is necessary to establish a medical assessment unit at Cavan to help manage an anticipated increase in activity arising...
- Hospital Services. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: For example, the average length of stay for inpatients must be reduced in line with best practice and the discharge planning process must be improved. Alternatives to acute inpatient care are required through the provision of additional packages of care in the Cavan-Monaghan community care area.
- Hospital Services. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: A proposed date for the transfer of acute medical care from Monaghan was 30 November 2008, subject to a number of dependencies being in place, in particular the establishment of the medical assessment unit at Cavanââ
- Hospital Services. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: ââand the development of an enhanced ambulance and pre-hospital thrombolysis service. The HSE now expects that these developments will not be in place until late November or early December 2008. On that basis it is now intended that the changeover will take place two months after the medical assessment unit opens. This will remain under review and the transfer will be announced in due...
- Hospital Services. (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: Options that will be explored with staff over the coming weeks will be the following â redeployment to immediate funded vacancies in the acute hospitals and to primary, continuing and community care in the north east; career support and up-skilling of certain staff where appropriate; transfer to some immediate service vacancies, for example, the medical assessment unit in Cavan General...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: That has more to do with access programmes.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)
Conor Lenihan: On a point of information, statistically the highest incidence of recession in Ireland has been under non-Fianna Fáil Governments. That is an economic fact.