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Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (1 Apr 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the projects or meetings he has engaged in with an organisation (details supplied); the nature of these projects or meetings; the cost involved in joint projects his Department is involved in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13564/09]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (1 Apr 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the procedure for hiring examiners who conduct oral exams on behalf of the State Examinations Commission; if examiners will continue to be remunerated in respect of their ordinary teaching posts, in addition to receiving their expenses for conducting the oral examinations; if teachers have resigned their positions as examiners...

Media Mergers. (1 Apr 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 31: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is intended to implement the recommendations contained in the report of the advisory group on media mergers published on 2 January 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13366/09]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (31 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress being made in designating and implementing modern hygiene practices in hospitals in order to reduce and eradicate MRSA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13082/09]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (31 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the stage the roll-out of the BreastCheck screening programme is at nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13083/09]

Written Answers — Pension Levy: Pension Levy (31 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will exercise his powers under section 8 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009, to exempt research staff at third level institutions from deductions under section 2 of that Act, having regard to the particular aspects and conditions of their employment that materially distinguish them from other employees in...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (31 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 4 February 2009, the number of children under the age of 18 with autism in the Dublin north catchment area (details supplied) who have been discharged from their school or service; the location where, be it in another institution, service or into their own family's care, they were placed...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (31 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 4 February 2009, the number of people with autism aged 18 and over who have been discharged from their service placement in the Dublin north catchment area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12814/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (31 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 370: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department is acting as the ultimate guarantor of payment on behalf of Dublin City Council with respect to its contract to build the Poolbeg incinerator in Dublin 4; if his Department has considered or will consider acting in any circumstances for the financing or part financing of the project, if...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (31 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 438: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason there has been a delay in issuing the details of the higher education grant scheme by his Department; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that local councils tend to break for the summer and that if the details are not issued soon, the grants may be not be properly administered by autumn 2009; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Economic Forecasts: Economic Forecasts (26 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on recent economic forecasts (details supplied) to the effect that unemployment could reach 16% by end of 2010, that house prices could undergo a 40% peat-to-trough decline and that national income is expected to decline by some 8% in 2009 and a further 3.5% in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12314/09]

Written Answers — Price Inflation: Price Inflation (26 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will table proposals to mitigate the potentially significant negative effects of deflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12313/09]

School Accommodation. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he proposes to recommend to the boards of management of primary schools, who have contracts with prefab building suppliers, the rent of which is paid by his Department, that they seek to have the terms of the contract reviewed in order to reduce the rental cost to his Department and so release resources for other sectors of his...

School Accommodation. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: This has been the subject of extensive discussion at our committee and I will not repeat what was said. In the real marketplace that is modern Ireland today, in every shopping mall and office block, tenants are demanding that landlords renegotiate their contracts or they will leave. That type of initiative should not be excluded from the public sphere either. The boards of management are...

School Accommodation. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Is that for new contracts?

School Accommodation. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.

School Accommodation. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Time is tight and we can pursue this later but I get the impression there are two players now. The formal client is the board of management which signs the contract and with whom the relationship with the supplier exists. I suggest the Minister should forget about the consultants. Can we have no more government by consultancy? Can we simply have political decisions saying to boards of...

School Accommodation. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: In new contracts.

School Accommodation. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Empower them now.

FÁS Training Programmes. (25 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will offer first refusal to the further education sector, including the vocational education committees and the institutes of technology, to provide the 51,000 training places for the unemployed announced recently by the Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12335/09]