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- Remuneration in Universities (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: That job of work is being done in exceptionally good measure by many of the same universities which are in the top 100 by international standards and more power to them. What is happening here is that people in these universities, who are in the public sector, are getting away with murder and the Government is letting them away with it. This goes back to 1997; the Department and the Higher...
- Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the nature of the audit findings into FÃS funding to date; when the latest audit by the European Commission into the use of funds by FÃS will be finalised; the public funds that have been returned to the European Commission to date; when it will be known whether any further public funds will need to be refunded;...
- Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: The question was to ask the Minister of State about the nature of the audit findings. What were the findings of the FÃS audit in December?
- Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Did the audit not find that no proper paper trail existed? At a meeting in December 2009, was it not agreed that the omission of a proper paper trail following the first audit meant that it would be necessary to examine all funds going back to 2000? Is it not the case that there is no paper trail and that while estimates were given, the Department must now revert and get a paper trail that...
- Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is FÃS not a festering sore and did the question that the Minister of State stated was raised by the European Union not relate to the tendering process for FÃS courses? Is it not a fact that a significant number of course providers in Ireland have corrupted examination results and that the Q-Mark they provide constitutes a question mark over the results they produce? While the vast...
- Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: The issues arise today.
- Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: It was.
- Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: It was fixing the results. It gave the result before the day. What the Minister of State is saying is rubbish.
- Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: With respect, that is not true.
- Higher Education Grants (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: In Irish.
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister of State's reply. While it is an awful thing to say to him, there are 219 graves of children in Bethany Home. They cannot speak because they died before their time, which clearly needs significant investigation and analysis. There is evidence that it was not as previous Ministers held that this was a home for mothers and babies. It was a place of detention and the...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Justice must be done even though the heavens fall, as they say. If the issue is money, let us remember we are spending â¬30 billion on the banks. The surviving people who lived in Bethany Home had their entire lives ruined by the experience. I have heard what the Minister of State said about the Department of Justice and Law Reform, but I do not hear him saying anything about the...
- Schools Patronage (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yet it will make people do time.
- Teaching Qualifications (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Does the Minister of State agree that for proper induction of new teachers, much more in-class monitoring of teachers is needed? There should be someone in the classroom to advise and help new teachers. Many of the courses being provided take place outside of school hours instead of monitoring the teachers in school in real time. I have received a significant number of complaints about...
- Teaching Qualifications (29 Sep 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: I understood there was to be more invigilation in real time in the classroom. That was one of the points brought to my attention; a new teacher should have more supervision. Has there been a reduction in the hours that were originally proposed for supervision of a new teacher under this scheme?
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 666: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the amount of her capital budget for schools that has been spent to date in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31177/10]
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (8 Jul 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 667: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the details of arrangements for schools designed to alleviate the impact of the moratorium on posts for the coming school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31178/10]
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (8 Jul 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 669: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of assistant principals and special duty teachers who have retired from primary teaching since the embargo on filling middle management posts was introduced in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31180/10]
- Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 668: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received a report from the Higher Education Authority into a review of student service charges; when she will publish this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31179/10]
- Written Answers — School Evaluations: School Evaluations (8 Jul 2010)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 670: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have had a whole-school evaluation inspection since the commencement of the whole-school evaluation process; the number of times each school has had a WSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31181/10]