Results 14,181-14,200 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- School Utility Services (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: We will await the results.
- School Curriculum (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: I am fascinated by the reply. Why did the Tánaiste raise this hare if she cannot do it? The common understanding, certainly mine, was to the effect that, if someone got 55 points in honours maths, there would be a bonus of 50% or 100%. The person would have 110 points as far as the CAO was concerned. Is the Tánaiste saying this is not possible or was it not what she meant when she made...
- School Curriculum (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: And points are an incentive they understand.
- School Curriculum (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: Every maths student would move up.
- School Curriculum (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: The Tánaiste was hardly a wet week in her current job and she had plenty of ministerial experience when she endorsed a recommendation by the innovation committee that was supported by myself and many others. Surely she knew what she was saying when she said it. Since then, has her Department told her that she cannot do it in a particular way, but that there is another way to do the same...
- Institutes of Technology (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: Absolutely.
- Institutes of Technology (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: There would be no need to provide money up front in respect of that decision.
- Departmental Agencies (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Tánaiste for her reply. Do I take it that the Secretary General in her Department is the responsible Accounting Officer?
- Departmental Agencies (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: The Tánaiste will be haunted by FÃS for longer than she thought.
- Pupil-Teacher Ratios (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: The Department gets the figures for pupils in October and gets the figure for the number of teachers the following June. That is some system.
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish, without prejudice, a national forum on patronage in primary schools, as suggested by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Catholic Church is the patron of 92% of all existing 3,175 ordinary primary schools in this State; when she will act upon her...
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: It did not take them long to house-train the Tánaiste. That is the most disappointing response I have heard from someone with the Tánaiste's experience and maturity. I would have thought that as a mother of relatively young children she would have a more open view. I take it the answer is that she is not going to establish a forum. Is that the correct interpretation of her reply?
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: The Catholic Church does not do democracy. It does not consult with its community; it informs its community. There is no procedure to which one can refer where the Catholic members of a parish are invited to vote or express their opinions in any structured way. If there is I am not aware of it. How will this process work? Who wrote the reply for the Tánaiste because it does not match...
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: So the people who live in built-up areas do not have a choice.
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: As the question stated.
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: That is my question.
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: Hence the forum.
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: With all the stakeholders.
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: Never on this issue.
- School Patronage (6 May 2010)
Ruairi Quinn: In the Minister's second reply, she stated the Archbishop of Dublin is the biggest individual patron of schools in the country. Each bishop is a patron in his own right and is able to give a different response, which will reflect the diversity of the country. Dr. Diarmuid Martin said he felt he had too many schools for the Catholic community he serves and he came to the Department to...