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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 570: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide a copy of the staffing schedule governing the appointment and retention of mainstream class teachers in all types of secondary schools for the 2009/2010 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27245/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (7 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 585: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 514 of 23 June 2009, the name, address and roll number of each school at each stage of the school building programme in separate tables for primary and post-primary projects in respect of the school years ending June 2008 and June 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27461/09]

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his proposals to create a database or central records office within his Department which will enable officials to access information on every school here in a format that is readily accessible and retrievable so that valuable man hours within his Department will not be misspent on data collection; if he has satisfied himself that he...

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Would the Minister regard his Department as being currently fit for purpose and that it is a 21st century administrative body similar to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the Department of Foreign Affairs or any other Department?

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: What evidence does the Minister have for that?

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Would the Minister be surprised if the ESB, Coillte, Bord na Móna or the Department of Foreign Affairs could not readily and at the press of a button find out where their embassies were located, where their forests were, what the potential acreage was, the capacity of generation, building conditions, who owned the land, whether freehold or leasehold, the regular inventory of stock that a...

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: That is a very good question, as regards the details-----

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: No, I have not. There were 98 recommendations in Cromien in 2000. How many have been implemented? What is the number?

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I rest my case.

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is not. I have asked the question before. The Minister has no clue.

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister is worse than I thought he was. It is like the voting machines - a sum of €1 million.

Schools Database. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister is even more incompetent than I thought.

Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is called kicking the matter to touch.

Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Having regard to current economic circumstances, did the people who made the ultimate decision know some of their colleagues were out the previous week encouraging others to make applications? If that is the case, one side of the Department does not know what the other is doing. Does that not make manifest our assertion that the Department is essentially dysfunctional? If the Minister of...

Higher Education Grants. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Does the Minister of State really believe that?

Higher Education Grants. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: He must think we are eejits.

Higher Education Grants. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes, we are in debt.

Higher Education Grants. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Full marks to the Minister of State for doing his homework.

School Patronage. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Is the Minister familiar with the comments of probably the largest patron in the country, with responsibility for one seventh of all the primary schools in the country? I refer to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who said at a Dublin gathering of the IPPN that the dominance of his patronage was a legacy of the past which no longer reflected the needs either of his church or the community. Is...

School Patronage. (2 Jul 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I suggest the best way to hold further discussions is some form of open dialogue.