Results 81-100 of 504 for speaker:Mary White
- Credit Institution (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2010: Motion (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: I am listening to the Deputy.
- Credit Institution (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2010: Motion (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: People are asking why Deputy Burton is continually moving to the right.
- Credit Institution (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2010: Motion (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: The Deputy should keep moving to the right.
- Credit Institution (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2010: Motion (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: Keep moving to the right.
- School Patronage (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: I am pleased to announce that the Education (Amendment) Bill 2010 was published yesterday. During the drafting process the Title of the Bill was changed to the Education (Amendment) Bill 2010 to reflect the inclusion in the Bill of other provisions which require the amendment of existing education legislation. The Bill is designed to put in place a legislative framework which will facilitate...
- School Patronage (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: The Department of Education and Skills has indicated that, in exceptional circumstances, where there is a need for teachers to be brought into schools, that need will be catered for. I think that was what Deputy Quinn was asking me to explain. He asked me about further schools.
- School Patronage (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: Would Deputy Quinn repeat what he asked me?
- School Patronage (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: It is not a question of a back door. It is a question of where there are exceptional needs that teachers with particular backgrounds would go into those schools. I believe Deputy Quinn is aware of that provision in the Education Act.
- School Patronage (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: In exceptional circumstances, that will be done.
- School Patronage (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: I believe Deputy Quinn will be aware, without being pernickety about the matter, that there is a provision that where there is a necessity for teachers with a special requirement to go into schools who do not have the necessary qualifications, and subject to scrutiny from the Department of Education and Skills, they will be facilitated.
- School Patronage (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: I am fully briefed.
- School Patronage (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: I apologise if Deputy Quinn has trouble with the semantics of what I am saying, but I am fully briefed. I have given him an answer. If he requires a further answer, I will furnish it to him from the Department.
- School Accommodation (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: My Department is acutely aware of the need for additional permanent school accommodation in the general Midleton area. As the Deputy will be aware, Midleton has been identified by the Department's forward planning unit as one of the areas projected to undergo significant increases in educational demand in the coming years. To this end, the Department is currently in the process of acquiring...
- School Accommodation (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: As the planning application relates to ensuring certainty for the purchase of the lands in question, as distinct from the specifics of the building project, it was not considered appropriate to involve the schools in the contract negotiations. That being said, I assure Deputy Stanton that the schools will be consulted in due course on the specifics of the building projects.
- School Accommodation (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: The Department has paid approximately â¬18,000 to the planning authority in submitting the relevant planning application. This was based on the planning authority's implementation of the planning regulations which required payment of this fee where the prospective schools to be housed were not named. Given the uncertainty of the planning application and the need to house both schools in...
- School Accommodation (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: As I indicated, it was the decision of the Department, in fairness to the planning process and to allow for due process, not to name the two schools. It was not considered fair to name either school in the application at this stage.
- School Accommodation (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: I do not have the information the Deputy seeks but I can obtain it for him.
- School Staffing (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: Retirements at primary level since the introduction of the moratorium in March 2009 were 431 principals, 373 deputy principals, 201 assistant principals and 322 teachers with special duties posts of responsibility. The equivalent figures for the post-primary sector were approximately 157 principals, 128 deputy principals, 1,144 assistant principals and 290 teachers with special duties...
- School Staffing (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: I thank the Deputy. I am not sure if he posed a question. However, the thrust of myââ
- School Staffing (29 Sep 2010)
Mary White: ââresponse to him is that this is a public service-wide challenge regarding how to deliver public services in the context of a reduced level of resources. The Deputy is well aware of that. I acknowledge that there is an uneven distribution of the reduction and that, in the context of attempts to alleviate difficulties, some schools have been impacted upon more than others. That is why...