Results 15,601-15,620 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the Residential Institutions Redress Board will extend its remit to those who were abused in institutions up to 21 years of age in view of the recent High Court ruling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42016/08]
- Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will allocate additional funds to the Residential Institutions Redress Board in view of the expected increased numbers of claims, due to the recent High Court ruling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42017/08]
- Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has plans to renegotiate the deal whereby the State would pay the costs of the claims incurred by the Residential Institutions Redress Board in return for a once-off â¬128 million payment by the Church in view of the recent High Court ruling and the possibility of new claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (20 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the transfer of 64 church properties to the State, as agreed in the 2001 deal signed by the Government in return for meeting the costs of the Residential Institutions Redress Board, has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42019/08]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (20 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it costs more for a child to use the LUAS to travel to school than using the DART because the school transport scheme does not apply to the LUAS; if this practice is unfair at best and discriminatory at worst; when his Department will rectify this issue; if all public transport, be it LUAS, DART or bus should be available to all...
- Job Creation. (20 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy might ask them again.
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (19 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Finance the yield to the Exchequer of the introduction of a new tax rate of 45% on incomes above â¬52,000 for a single person, above â¬61,000 for married couples with one income, and above â¬104,000 for a married couple with two incomes on the basis of applying maximum transferability of â¬45,000 between spouses as proposed in budget 2009. [41786/08]
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The Dáil passed the Second Stage of the Student Support Bill in May or June this year. The taking of Committee Stage has been delayed somewhere between here and Marlborough Street and we cannot seem to find out when it is likely to be taken. Given that the Government is considering the reintroduction of fees for third level students, is it not going to proceed with this Bill, but is to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on the Estimate for his Department in 2009. [40949/08]
- Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 535: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his Department's expenditure on adult education in 2009; if he will provide this figure as a percentage of GDP and GNP; if he will provide the 2009 figure in a table that outlines the spending on adult education as a percentage of GDP and GNP for the years 2000 to 2008; if he will provide the figure as a percentage of the total...
- Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 536: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his Department's expenditure on the adult literacy and community education scheme and the special initiatives for disadvantaged adults scheme in 2009; the breakdown of the expenditure under the headings adult literacy and community education; if he will provide the 2009 figure for ALCES with the breakdown for adult literacy and...
- Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 537: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department spent paying the salaries of teachers in private, fee-paying secondary schools in the past three years; the sum his Department expects to spend on these salaries in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40740/08]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the opinion that the suspension of the early retirement scheme for teachers may leave his Department open to legal challenges, in view of the fact that teachers who may have deferred their early retirement by a year did so in the expectation that the scheme would still operate by the time they...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 539: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the school transport scheme contract is due for renewal; the value of the school transport scheme contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40754/08]
- Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: What did the banks say?
- Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Time to go, Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: She cannot stand the heat.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: It is relevant.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: On a number of occasions I have raised the Bill in my name, No. 41 on the Order Paper, the Vocational Education (Primary Education) Bill 2008. It is a two-section Bill. The Parliamentary Counsel clearly has much more important things to do. In order to put the primary school that is now in operation in north County Dublin on a legal footing, I am asking for Government time to be provided....
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: It is the Vocational Education (Primary Education) Bill 2008. To help the Tánaiste, I should say that when I raised this matter before the Taoiseach said he would bring it to the attention of the Department of Education and Science.