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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on plans for a new school at Harcourt Terrace in Dublin 2; the size of the school that will be located there; when a patron will be appointed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29246/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects work to commence on the new primary school on Haddington Road in Dublin 4; if she will provide an update on the project; the number of classrooms that will be accommodated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29247/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects work to commence on the new primary school at Griffith Barracks in Dublin 8; if she will provide an update on the project; the number of classrooms that will be accommodated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29248/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the amount invested in each school in the Dublin 2, 4, 6, 6W, and 8 areas since 2011, for new or refurbished classrooms, extensions, new buildings or other building works; her plans for further investment in schools in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29249/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Regeneration (15 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 299. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding provided to Dublin City Council for the refurbishment of empty social housing units, known as voids, in each year from 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; if he will provide a breakdown for each of those years as to the number of those units that were in Dublin 2, 4, 6, and 8, and the general address of each;...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the plans of the National Association of Building Co-Operatives to develop social housing in the former tenement building at the junction of Moss Street and Gloucester Street in Dublin 2; the funding that has been committed; the reason for the delay in the roll-out of this project since it...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 301. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to build new social housing in the Dublin 2, 4, 6, and 8 areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29257/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (14 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 585. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 6; if it remains in use by the Health Service Executive; and if not, his plans for this location [28553/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: The Chairman has a difficult task so I will confine my remarks to one question for the Minister, whose presence is very welcome. It is 67 years since the United Nations recognised, by a substantial majority, the right of the State of Israel to exist. There are still countries, many of which are neighbours of the European Union or close neighbours in the Middle East, that deny to this very...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (7 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 165. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the property owned and managed by the Office of Public Works on Harcourt Terrace in Dublin 2; the groups that are currently using the former Garda Síochána station site; his plans for the property at 17 Harcourt Terrace; if it is currently occupied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27515/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Deaths of Irish Citizens in Tunisia: Expressions of Sympathy. (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Chairman. Like everyone else in this room the horror of what happened in Tunisia brings home to us in a very graphic way the horror that is happening every day in that part of the world. Some lessons have to be learned from the triumphalism of the West, which thought it could rush in with a ballot paper and a 300-year history of democracy, with all its faults, and impose it on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: Mr. O'Gorman said that "the world's politicians have miserably failed to protect those in greatest need". Is that all politicians - unelected politicians, elected politicians, independent politicians, those who have the audacity to form political parties or, even worse, to aspire to get into government and implement difficult programmes that try to reconcile the problem of refugees with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: I disagree with what Mr. O'Gorman has just said. The very tone of Mr. O'Gorman's entire reference to politicians is denigratory and makes no distinction between elected politicians in a democratic society, either in opposition or independent, and those who are self-appointed. I believe Mr. O'Gorman has a problem with his language.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: Not in the paper.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: Why not have a bit of positivity? This country is immeasurably better for a bit of political action in the last year in relation to one thing. Why not put it in a positive context; all politicians and all governments must do more to achieve the objectives of Amnesty International?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: This is not a Star Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: It would be helpful if we worked on the basis of the rules which govern this committee. Senator Daly did not come down with the last shower of rain. He knows exactly what those rules are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Amnesty International Annual Report 2014 (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: I accept the document that Mr. O'Gorman has delivered is not one of which he is the author and not one he has the authority to change in any particular way. I would, however, ask him and Amnesty International to reflect on a number of comments. Its origins were in the Cold War. I recall the article in the Sunday Observerthat precipitated it. Since that time and the collapse in Soviet...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the works carried out on the Poddle River to alleviate the risk of flooding, the level of risk to which residents are currently protected; when the proposed works are carried out at Tymon Park in Dublin 12, the level of risk to which residents will be protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26578/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (1 Jul 2015)

Ruairi Quinn: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the flood protection work carried out so far along the Poddle River; when the proposed works will be finished, so that homeowners along the river may access flood insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26579/15]