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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126 and 127 together. The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools is published annually on my Department's website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing schedules for...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Can the Deputy repeat that?

Pupil-Teacher Ratio (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes. That is correct.

Pupil-Teacher Ratio (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I have an official reply with me, but I do not propose to put it on the record as I want to give a genuine response to both Deputies. I have no agenda to close any school, nor does the Department have a central plan or model that will be applied willy nilly across the country. That might have been the way in the past. Our system is 181 years old this year. As I said last night, at one...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Department, which has always responded to Ministers and will continue to do so after I am gone, will do what the Minister has directed as authorised by this assembly. I am up for anything that will improve rural Ireland and that will have parents' endorsement. For example, an extended parish or a combination of parishes might want one board of management with a single point of contact...

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: That is because we ran the economy smartly. We planned the service and delivered it.

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy and her party would know all about that.

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am told it is due in the coming weeks.

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Did the Deputy feel the need to read it himself such that he could talk about it?

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: It is the responsibility of the principal to ensure this does not happen.

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: No. It is the responsibility of the principal.

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: It is being implemented.

Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: Deputies are familiar with the background to this issue. It has nothing to do with the troika or the bailout, but has everything to do with our treaty and legal obligations regarding clean water and ensuring our neighbour's water, whether in urban or rural Ireland is clean. It also has everything to do with the fact that this Republic was cited as being in breach of the obligations and...

Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: ----- and because we have been in breach of undertakings that were given by representatives of this Chamber in the European Commission that if we do not have this legislation enacted by 3 February, we will be subject to a fine of €26,000 a day. I share and understand the concerns being expressed.

Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: There are three issues involved. There is the necessity to deal with this or otherwise we will be fined substantial amounts. We are agreed on that point. Is the Deputy agreed that we must have the legislation in place by 3 February. It seems he is not in agreement.

Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am new to this role.

Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: I am bound by the Chair. This is a matter on which there has been extensive discussion at committee. I listened to Deputy McGrath over Christmas also. We can deal with concerns about how this will function after the legislation is enacted. We no longer have the time to deal with it now, because on 3 February we will face a fine of €26,000 a day.

Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: The House shares the Deputy's concern on this matter. However, we do not yet have all the information necessary for an informed debate. We must let the facts emerge in the discussions that are ongoing between Ulster Bank and the IBOA. I suggest Deputy Catherine Murphy who is sitting beside the Deputy is well equipped to request that this matter be raised at the next Whips' meeting and that...

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: They are not being lost but are going into the mainstream teacher cohort. Deployment is at the discretion of the principal.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2012)

Ruairi Quinn: We all extend our sympathy to those directly affected by this morning's announcement. On this island Ulster Bank employs approximately 6,000 people, 900 of whom are affected by this announcement. Of those affected, we understand 650 are in the Republic of Ireland. The announcement has come at the end of much speculation and there is now a degree of certainty, although none of us might like...