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Written Answers — Third Level Places: Third Level Places (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who commenced study to date under the programme of part-time postgraduate third-level places for unemployed workers which commenced in September 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26031/10]

Written Answers — Third Level Places: Third Level Places (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who have commenced study to date under the programme of part-time undergraduate places for jobless workers which commenced in September 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26032/10]

Written Answers — Third Level Places: Third Level Places (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of places that will be made available and funded by her Department under the programme of part-time postgraduate third-level places for unemployed workers in the academic year 2010/2011 commencing in September 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26033/10]

Written Answers — Third Level Places: Third Level Places (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of places that will be made available and funded by her Department under the programme of part-time undergraduate places for jobless workers in the academic year 2010/2011 commencing in September 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26034/10]

Written Answers — Corporate Governance: Corporate Governance (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the State agencies under the aegis of her Department to which the 2009 Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies applies; if all these agencies have submitted assurances and reports confirming compliance with the code in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26035/10]

Written Answers — Corporate Governance: Corporate Governance (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if the boards of State agencies under the aegis of her Department which are required to implement the new Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies have formally adapted the code at a board meeting; if they have undertaken training to ensure proper implementation of the code; the monitoring procedures they...

Written Answers — Corporate Governance: Corporate Governance (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has reviewed the compliance by State bodies that come under its remit with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies; the State bodies that have not achieved full compliance; the reason for same: the action taken by her Department; the results of same; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Teaching Council does not recognise two postgraduate courses as suitable qualifications to be a maths teacher here (details supplied); if she will instruct the Teaching Council to recognise these courses in view of the importance of maths teachers having specific...

Written Answers — Third Level Courses: Third Level Courses (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that two separate degrees are available in chemical engineering in two third level institutions (details supplied); the total number of undergraduate students each of these degree courses; her views on whether the current situation represents an optimum use of public funds; if...

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: I ask about the legislation to put on a statutory basis the community national schools. If the text is to be published, when will that happen?

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (16 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of the EU directives for which his Department has responsibility that remain to be implemented; if he will list the directives that are now overdue; if he will give the number of reasoned opinions received from the EU Commission since 2002 regarding delays or the non-implementation of such directives; and if he...

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: He is asking about your constituency, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: When will the Government publish the Bill that will put on a statutory basis the operation of the two existing community national schools in north Dublin and the three new schools that will open in September for the next academic year?

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Do I take it that the Bill will be published, but probably not debated, in this session?

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: It has probably been written already.

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (15 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 481: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if a person with a teaching qualification from a university (details supplied) is unable to register with the Teaching Council here; the reason graduates of this university are unable to register as teachers; and her plans to resolve this difficulty. [25071/10]

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister should know.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: What about Fianna Fáil and the Green Party?

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: This is the second time in my political lifetime in this Chamber that I have seen the Fianna Fáil party bring this country to the verge of bankruptcy. I sat on these benches in 1977 when the triumphant Jack Lynch came in with his manifesto of economic illiteracy that believed we could borrow our way into the future in other people's currencies. That economy collapsed amid its own...

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Ruairi Quinn: That money would transform schools across the country and could be spent in so many different ways. Yet it was a piddling sum according to the Minister, or just petty cash. The Taoiseach has treated taxpayers' money as petty cash and he has the temerity now to seek confidence from us. The Taoiseach spoke earlier about policies he has delivered and said that the Government is now on the...