Results 16,201-16,220 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn

Sexual Discrimination. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Ten per cent of teachers.

School Enrolments. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: There is prima facie evidence that they have.

Schools Building Projects. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: That is a "maybe" answer.

Schools Building Projects. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: They will learn the third secret of Fatima before they get that answer.

School Enrolments. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the primary schools in Dublin 2, Dublin 4, Dublin 6 and Dublin 8; the number of places available for the student year 2007-08 in each school; the enrolment for 2007-08 in each school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13197/08]

Third Level Funding. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: A famous commentator whose name escapes me once denounced a response to a question as lies, damn lies and statistics. I do not doubt the Minister's statistics but if I am to believe them I must conclude that the professor presidents of Trinity College and University College Dublin, UCD, were telling lies. Is it a lie that support fell by €11,240 per student, 18% in real terms, between...

Third Level Funding. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: There is a clash between the figures that have gone on the record of the House today and those cited by the university presidents. Is the Minister suggesting that they failed to include core funding for students in the article they jointly signed? Do I understand the Minister correctly? As a consequence their figures, of necessity, must be inaccurate. Is that a correct understanding of...

Third Level Funding. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I cited the article.

Third Level Funding. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The reply was based on it.

School Accommodation. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: It is probably about six to seven weeks since I first asked this question. The Minister is either being economic with the truth, to borrow a phrase from a famous trial in the southern hemisphere, or her Department is being economic with the truth with her. She will have to satisfy herself as to which of those allegations is more accurate. It is beyond belief, after three years plus in the...

School Accommodation. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: May I ask a supplementary question?

School Services Staff. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she proposes to take to regularise the anomalies, including rates of pay, access to pensions and PRSAs, a sick leave scheme, procedures for grievance, disciplinary bullying and harassment, contracts of employment and issuing of pay slips surrounding the terms and conditions of employment of school secretaries and...

School Services Staff. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I find the Minister's response utterly irresponsible considering that the new leader-designate of Fianna Fáil, Deputy Brian Cowen, announced earlier at a press conference that Fianna Fáil would respect social partnership and an inclusive approach to society. In effect the Minister is presiding over a yellow pack form of employment. The Minister has not answered the question properly. She...

School Services Staff. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: That is being phased out.

School Services Staff. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: It is.

School Services Staff. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Will the Minister accept that the approximately 20,000 new members of boards of management, particularly in the primary sector, who have come on board to look after the school in which their children or grandchildren may be students, and in trying to facilitate the best possible support for the principal and staff in the school, are now confronted with a position where the Minister is giving...

School Services Staff. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: That is being phased out. It is irrelevant.

School Services Staff. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: I remember it well.

School Services Staff. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Department has closed down negotiations.

Institutes of Technology. (9 Apr 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy has got to be joking.