Results 1,381-1,400 of 6,186 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I agree totally, in principle, that high governance standards have to be reached. The Minister requested that review. I am trying to establish whether she made her decision on foot of recommendations contained in that review.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will ask the question again. The Minister requested a governance review.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, that is agreed.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I agree with the Minister entirely.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is important that the governance, whether it is of an organisation or the Department, is coherent and so on. What I am trying to establish is the chain of decisions that led to the Minister taking that decision. Was it recommended to the Minister by the governance review, which, whether the organisation engaged with it or not, did happen? Did the Minister-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: When did the Minister receive the report?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: So, she has not received the report.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Thank you, Chair.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I was just seeking to establish that. I would have thought that any decision that would have been taken, whether there was engagement or not, would have been informed by the review. I understand that some of the reasons for engagement or non-engagement are disputed. I absolutely agree that high standards have to be reached, but I would have imagined that if a review had been undertaken and...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Did the Minister receive this draft report?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I suppose it is clear that the Minister has not seen the report. So the decision was taken exclusively on the basis of-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: -----non-co-operation. Do I have time for a final question?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There have been ongoing discussions and reviews in respect of school transport for some time. The decision that was taken to make school transport free was welcome, albeit it could have been organised in a different way, perhaps by continuing to give preference to those who applied in time. In any event, the time for has passed. The decision to make school transport free for this academic...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Is it because of the recommendations of that review that the Minister took the decision to remove funding?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister will receive the report.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will raise a few other issues, some of which partly follow on from what others have mentioned. I will also briefly take the opportunity to express my party's condolences on the loss of Niamh Bhreathnach, who was a pioneering Minister for Education. I extend my condolences to her family and to the Labour Party. She will be remembered for her decision to end fees and to break the cycle. I...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Two issues arose during other members' questions, one of which related to physical activity and school buildings. We had a debate on this and I also had a debate with the school buildings unit. I take every opportunity to discuss this. The Department needs to have a rethink of how it approaches this. As far as I can see, although it is not nailed down in black and white, the position of...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There are probably two different ways to calculate it, but it is between 5 km and 6 km.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There was no conflict of interest, as far as the Minister is concerned.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Regulations (8 Feb 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when new regulations under Part 18 of the Local Government Act 2001 regarding the holding of plebiscites to change placenames will be resolved; when amendments will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5806/23]