Results 1-7 of 7 for tenet speaker:Ciarán Cannon

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: ...American journalist called Bill Moyers, who once said that a good idea is like an arrow but an arrow needs a bow “and politics is the bow of idealism”. To this day, that is still the central tenet of why I believe I have become involved in politics and it was the very essence of who John Bruton was. He was an idealist to his core and he believed that in politics you have...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2018)

Ciarán Cannon: ...GPE, which coincidentally is meeting in Dublin next week on my invitation, I know that girls' education, rather than being somehow singled out for special attention, pervades all the work it does. A central tenet of their ambitions worldwide, especially in the countries in which they work, is to ensure that unique focus is placed on getting girls into education, keeping them there and...

Other Questions: Special Education Review (8 Jul 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...is set to increase next year. Within the finite resources available to us, we have, as best we can, protected special needs education within the overall education budget, which has been a central tenet of the work of the Minister, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, in the past three years. To reply to Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett's question, if the INTO has a concern that, without lifting the...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (10 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: ...is in place between my Department and the Office of Public Works which outlines the roles and responsibilities of each of the parties in the delivery of education projects. It is a central tenet of devolution that responsibility for the delivery of projects, within certain agreed timeframes and parameters as laid down in the service level agreement, rests with the Office of Public Works....

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (30 Apr 2013)

Ciarán Cannon: ...level agreement is in place between my Department and the Office of Public Works which outlines the roles and responsibilities of each of the parties in the delivery of education projects. It is a central tenet of devolution that responsibility for the delivery of these projects, within certain agreed parameters as laid down in the service level agreement, rests with the Office of Public...

Seanad: Unemployment: Motion (1 Jul 2009)

Ciarán Cannon: ...signing on in June was almost 90% higher than in the same month last year, the biggest increase since records began in 1965. Of course, every reasonable person would have to agree with the central tenet of the Green Party motion, the urgent need to implement measures aimed at slowing and reversing unemployment. Our economy is in freefall but where is the urgency in the Government's...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (28 May 2008)

Ciarán Cannon: ...tabled in that spirit of concern. The fundamental objective of the health policy of this Government is to achieve the best clinical outcomes for all patients across the country. This is a central tenet of the health service reform programme. The reforms are aimed at helping to deliver a health system that is more responsive and adaptable and that more effectively meets the needs of the...