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Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: To save money.

Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Sinn Féin invited the troika to Ireland.

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I was recently impressed by comments from the deputy leader of Fianna Fáil at a public meeting in Ballinalsoe on the issue of rural schools. I now appreciate that the comments he made that night were well informed, based on his contribution to a Green Paper when he was first elected in 1992. Entitled "Education in a Changing World", it proposed Fianna Fáil's objective to ensure that the...

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I now recognise the informed contribution that has been made in that respect.

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: It can also be said with some justification that the current Minister for Finance and the Irish people face a greater challenge in many respects than that faced by the first Minister for Finance in this country. I am sure that the thinking and listening Minister for Education and Skills would have wished for better times. His vision for education could have been realised in full, but none...

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: That puts into context the intention of the Minister for Education and Skills to protect the most vulnerable people in our society in difficult times. Savings cannot be made without the pain the Opposition has imposed on this country but we will do it by consultation with all key stakeholders, including patrons, parents, local communities and teachers.

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Front line workers in education will not suffer a 15% pay reduction as Fianna Fáil inflicted on communities.

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: This Government is committed to protecting the Croke Park agreement today and the protection of teachers' pay tomorrow. However, pay makes up 80% of the total spend in education so cuts have to be found somewhere. The INTO is in danger of playing into the hands of Fianna Fáil, which cut 15% of their members' pay in the past, by seeming to refuse to engage constructively in a discussion on...

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Even after the changes in threshold for small primary schools are implemented, the average pupil teacher ratio in a two-teacher school will be 7:1, or 17:1 in a three-teacher school. As a father of three school-going children, and as someone from a rural area, I am sensitive to the decisions that are taken with regard to small schools. A calm, rational debate is needed, examining all...

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: The idea of looking at clusters of schools that will work together and serve the needs of the area by providing a choice for parents and maximising the opportunity for efficiencies. This will ensure that the quality of education will be at the forefront of the Government thoughts.

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I conclude by commending the Government amendment to the House.

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Deputy Ó Cuív was born in Dublin 4.

Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Hear, hear. Progress.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Is the Deputy referring to the newspaper from which he read earlier?

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Would you say that outside?

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Were you ever in the Galway tent?

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Apologise to the children of this country for what you did.

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Your fingerprints are all over the destruction of the country. Apologise to the people.

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: This is the man who wanted to go to jail.

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (17 Jan 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the requisite criteria to be met for students sitting the junior and leaving certificate State examinations to become eligible for special centre support while sitting their examinations. [2475/12]