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Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the registration of Educate Together as a patron of second level schools; his views on this correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37955/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 476: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the estimated savings that will accrue from the amalgamation of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland, the Higher Education and Training Awards Council and the Further Education and Training Awards Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37956/08]

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 477: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the estimated savings that will accrue from the abolition of the Educational Disadvantage Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37957/08]

Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 478: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the estimated savings that will accrue from the abolition of the National Adult Learning Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37958/08]

Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 479: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the estimated savings that will accrue from the abolition of the Centre for Early Childhood Development and Education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37959/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 480: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 16 October 2008, the number of architects invoices which are outstanding or waiting to be paid by his Department in connection with school building projects; the breakdown of fees outstanding for each individual project. [37960/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 481: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 16 October 2008, the number of correctly completed stage payment certificates which have yet to be paid by his Department's school building section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37961/08]

Written Answers — Accreditation Standards: Accreditation Standards (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 482: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 608 of 21 October 2008, the steps he will take to ensure bogus institutions are closed down; when they will be finalised; when they will be put into action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37962/08]

Fee-paying Schools. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Let them try.

Fee-paying Schools. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.

Fee-paying Schools. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: This issue is much deeper than one of education, although it manifests itself in education for historical reasons with which we are all familiar and on which we will not spend time. The Government's decision is really an attack on the principle of diversity within this Republic.

Fee-paying Schools. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister is undermining a principle that we cherished in the South when, north of the Border, there was bigotry and oppression of a kind that we prized ourselves on condemning. This decision is starting the process that obtained in the North and I urge the Minister to reconsider it. There is a short-term impact in a cash year or current year and there is a long-term impact that will...

Fee-paying Schools. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: What Catholic school will challenge it?

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach should tell that to those affected.

School Staffing. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: It is up for the Man Booker Prize.

Capitation Grants. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the discrepancies between the ability of primary school communities in middle income areas and disadvantaged areas to raise funds voluntarily in order to ensure that the basic running costs of schools are met; his views on whether regardless of the socio-economic profiles of primary schools,...

Capitation Grants. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for his reply. Unfortunately, he did not get to the nub of the issue. Were the Minister to run a course in his Department for curt replies or to provide Deputies with a code for the various paragraphs regurgitated at every Question Time, a rain forest might be spared. However, that is another matter and my time is tight.

Capitation Grants. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: My question is simple. As the Minister knows from his constituency work if not his Department, there are middle income areas in his extensive constituency where raising additional money to cover basic funding is not a problem. There are voluntary contributions at the tax efficient level of €250, which is the norm. They are not mandatory, but one receives contribution rates of up to 80%....

Capitation Grants. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Some 93%.

Capitation Grants. (4 Nov 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister will consolidate social disadvantage if he goes down this road. What is provided in DEIS I and DEIS II does not compensate for a middle income area consolidating its school. From a principal's point of view, there are serious management problems associated with the running of schools in terms of how the Department pays the capitation grant and during what period of the...