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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Not necessarily the people involved in them. We cannot prioritise certain aspects of education. All of the issues are priorities, from the buses to the literacy programme. I would like to have a look at the percentage achieved overall, so perhaps somebody would do the maths for us. The Minister does not know the what has actually been achieved in regard to the targets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is important, because there appear to be clusters that are more successful than others.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is an excellent exercise on output and outcome. While it is very good to have a target and are working towards it, would it be of value to have a page on some of the clusters that are working very well and in respect of which a target has been reached or partly reached, and those that are proving problematic, for whatever reason, be it associated with money, change or another factor? It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: This is very comprehensive and could be pushed a little further.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Has the Senator specifics on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a joke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is a kind of wonderful generalisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: What are they and in what university?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It depends on the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The statistics do not support that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: May I make a point here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to see statistics on the correlation between guidance teachers and levels of attrition in third level colleges. When there were throngs of guidance counsellors in every school, the attrition rates were equally high. If I were to generalise, taking up on Senator Craughwell's generalisation, I would say mammies and daddies have more to do with the choice of university subject...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am a tiny bit confused. In the form I have to hand on expenditure by the Department of Education and Skills on higher education, it states we are spending €15,457,000 under subhead C12, research activities. However, under capital expenditure, it is stated we are spending €37.6 million in research. Can someone explain that to me? Which is which and what is what because I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes, I just need to know. It probably is a simple answer that I simply do not get. In that regard, do the universities have parallel target output and outcome programmes in respect of this great research? I do not refer to medical or pharmaceutical research but to liberal arts research. Are there programmes or targets? For what are we paying through the expenditure of €37.6...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It does not matter whether it is up to the end of whatever; I wish to know for what it is being paid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: In addition, how much is the Grangegorman project costing because I appear to have one figure on one page and then another figure on a different page? Where does the Minister consider the expenditure of these billions of euro to be best spent? From where do we get the greatest return? I understand we get a great return for money from education but where does the Minister consistently see...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I refer to both. I am asking where is it a delight to spend the money because the Minister constantly sees work being well done in the area or sees a result. I am aware there is a result because I understand education is a result of itself but I mean specifically, through all these areas, where does the Minister see the greatest return? Does she see it in the DEIS schools, in languages or...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Health to the House because I would like us to have a debate on our ageing population? The demographic of our population is quite outstanding. It is alarming that 65% of us will be over 65 in the next 15 years and we need to plan for it. The reason we fail in Ireland is that we do not plan. Homelessness is a very complex problem. One of the reasons...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I also wish Senator Jimmy Harte the very best. He was an outstanding Senator who had one quality which some of us, myself included, lacked, namely fearlessness. He was the one Senator who, when I first came here with him, was able to stand up to Sinn Féin and never let them away with a thing. I admired him for that. He never let them away with anything because he experienced it on...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The clue is in the verb "may". The inference from Standing Orders is that if the Attorney General decides that she or the Minister of State would like to come in and-----