Results 16,361-16,380 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- School Staffing. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for her reply. The preamble was perhaps unnecessary, particularly in view of the time constraints. I put it to the Minister that the tone of her reply is in complete contrast to that of the eulogistic address she delivered at the IPPN conference in Killarney, which I attended, when she stated that principals are the leaders of the schools. The Minister is now saying...
- School Staffing. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: If the INTO represents the teachers and the boards of management represent the patrons, who represents the children and parents? All I am asking is whether the Minister will either formally or informally consult with the IPPN before signing off the new and welcome procedures. I use the word "informally" to get around the structure inherited by the Minister which she did not design. She may...
- School Staffing. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: How?
- School Staffing. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister did not answer the question. How can she say, when nobody is representing the children, that the best way to get representation for children is to get agreement by the players around the table, none of whom ostensibly represents the children?
- School Staffing. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Will the Minister just answer the question?
- School Staffing. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Does the Minister not accept the first role of the INTO is to defend those teachers' interests rather than that of the children?
- School Staffing. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: I know.
- School Staffing. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Will the Minister speak to the IPPN?
- School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister circulated de Valera's book.
- School Curriculum. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister did not have to accept that.
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools using prefab class rooms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6075/08]
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: If the Minister does not mind, I do not need to hear the rest of the answer.
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister is also taking up time.
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: The Minister's reply is a total and utter disgrace and an insult to this House. Her insistence on reading it into the Official Report and taking up my scarce time to block any significant supplementary question is the kind of abuse that I brought to the attention of the Ceann Chomhairle when the Minister was in the House yesterday. I asked the Minister a simple question â if any of the...
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: This is incredible. If the Minister was running any kind of management organisation, she would be in serious trouble at this stage. To say that the information is not readily available is unbelievable, having regard to the fact that she established a building unit specifically to study this issue. If I put this question down for a written reply, over which I have no control, in a...
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: I ask the Minister please not to abuse her position by blaming the boards of management in individual schools.
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: We and the Minister's backbench are inundated by schools who cannot get any kind of answer on whether to go ahead with a proposal. Her Department has the information and she refuses to make it readily available. She will not even give me a commitment to go through the 3,200 odd files in two weeks. If the Minister could say four weeks, I could live with that, but she refuses to give the...
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: This is a diversion.
- Schools Building Projects. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: That reply is worthy of the Kremlin.
- Public Private Partnerships. (20 Feb 2008)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for her reply, and I know it is a complex area. Do I understand that she will not be able to answer the questions, specifically Question No. 104, as to the effective rate of interest until the third quarter of this year?