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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 499: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department estimates will be saved by the abolition of the physics and chemistry grant in the 2009-10 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36990/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 500: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department estimates will be saved by the abolition of the special subjects grant in the 2009-10 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36991/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 501: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department estimates will be saved by the abolition of the home economics ingredients grant in the 2009-10 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36992/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 502: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department estimates will be saved by the abolition of the choirs and orchestras grant in the 2009-10 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36993/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 503: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department estimates will be saved by the abolition of the junior certificate schools programme grant in the 2009-10 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36994/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 504: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department estimates will be saved by the abolition of the book grant for schools not in the DEIS scheme in the 2009-10 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36995/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 530: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Question No. 1766 of 24 September 2008, when his Department's review of overall economic and budgetary positions and competing priorities for available resources will take place; when it will conclude; when schools will be informed of the conclusions of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37088/08]

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: That was a different time.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: No one said that. It is the number of children in the class that is the problem.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: It is called population growth.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: They have all gone home.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: That was because supervision was provided.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: No, it has not.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: This is their new home.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I move: That Dáil Éireann deplores the series of educational cuts announced in the budget and subsequently by the Minister for Education and Science; expresses its serious concern at the damage these cuts will cause to the education system and to the future prospects of our children; and calls on the Government, in particular, to reverse the decision to increase class sizes at first and...

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: It is an attack upon our children, the most vulnerable in our society. It is an attack on our future because our children will be the generation who will guide us into old age and they will care for us as we have done for our parents. It is an attack on our young generation. Think of it. It pushes many shy, insecure young four year old children into classes with more than 30 other...

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister, Ministers of State, members of Fianna Fáil and, God love them, the Green Party——

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Labour is not trying to score political points, nor are we trying to bring down the Government in this motion. We simply want to change that element of the budget that affects education. We share the views expressed by the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Education and Science, Deputy Paul Gogarty of the Green Party, who said recently, and which might have been in the letter received by...

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: It is the Minister who is being outrageous.

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Government is spending less percentage-wise.