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- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (3 Mar 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department is planning to build a gaelscoil secondary school in Ashbourne, County Meath; his views on whether Ashbourne has the highest youth population here but has only one secondary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8787/09]
- Written Answers — School Patronage: School Patronage (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on whether a person (details supplied) is fit to remain as patron of the primary schools in their diocese in view of their failure to adequately report clerical child sexual abuse which occurred in their diocese; if he is satisfied that there are adequate measures of protection for children attending the schools of which...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will enter into talks with an organisation (details supplied), some of whose members, as teaching orders, are the legal owners of many of the primary schools here, with a view to seeking to have their legal ownership of those properties transferred to his Department while ensuring that they continue to operate as schools under...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for the clarity of his reply. He must have a new answer writer in the Department. This is in no way an attempt by the Labour Party or I to further punish the religious orders. On the contrary, we are all indebted to them because of the contribution they have made to education. However, my fear is that the congregations will be obliged to provide 24 hour seven day...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: That is nobody's fault. There is no fault either on the part of the Minister or on the part of the religious orders.
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: The situation goes back more than 100 years.
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: I respect the Chair and I will be very brief. There is no problem with the modern arrangements or the modern leaseholds. However, the bulk of the schools in built up areas to which I am referring predate those leasing arrangements. In my constituency schools were unilaterally closed down and the Department told us at the time it had no lean or control over that. The Minister does not know...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: I am not requesting the Minister to spend money buying them. The orders should hand them over.
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: That is where I would start.
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: It is.
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: Of course the Minister is aware that with ownership comes an obligation for maintenance and care.
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: He could ask it 30 times.
- Adult Education. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister of State. I am not so sure that the reply would be different if we were in the middle of a boom. There was a good article by Professor Tom Collins in the education supplement of The Irish Times recently about the existing spare capacity within the institutes of technology, IT, and vocational education committee, VEC, sectors. While the Minister of State has given me a...
- Adult Education. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: Could the spend be co-ordinated between the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to ensure that the substantial resources that are going to FÃS are not outsourced to third party private contractors? There can be plenty of flexibility in the spending of the money but there should be an assurance that the money that is within the FÃS...
- School Patrons. (26 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: So that is a no.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extent to which the announcement of 3 February 2009 of expenditure savings of â¬2.1 billion will have an impact on Garda recruitment and Garda overtime in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7602/09]
- Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (25 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the strength of An Garda SÃochána at the latest date for which figures are available broken down by full members, those who have attested but not yet concluded their training, those in training, the expected number that will be recruited in 2009, the anticipated numbers at each above category at the end of 2009 and the...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: There are 50,000 primary school pupils who attend classes in prefabs. There are people whose children sit in the very prefabs in which they sat 25 or 30 years ago. In our experience, temporary measures tend to have a certain degree of longevity that creates certain doubts in people's minds with regard to the nature of such measures. I ask the Minister to consider what, in most people's...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: A variation in the levy is required.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)
Ruairi Quinn: May I make an observation?