News & Statements
Education and Skills – School Bullying 21st January 2014
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which his Department has monitored incidents of bullying amongst children or teenagers...
Education and Skills – Adequacy of Resources for Children with Special Needs 21st January 2014
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which children with special needs continue to receive an adequate degree of services...
Education and Skills – School Bullying 21st January 2014
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which his Department has monitored incidents of bullying amongst children or teenagers...
Education and Skills – School Patronage Maynooth 21st January 2014
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of meeting the requirements as set out by the school authorities at Maynooth Post Primary School, County Kildare...
Announcement of €12bn in agricultural sector a positive investment – Durkan 16th January 2014
Fine Gael Kildare North TD, Bernard Durkan, has today (Thursday) welcomed this week's announcement by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, of an investment of over €12 billion in agriculture sector between now and 2020.
Announcement of €12bn in agricultural sector a positive investment – Durkan 16th January 2014
Fine Gael Kildare North TD, Bernard Durkan, has today (Thursday) welcomed this week's announcement by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, of an investment of over €12 billion in agriculture sector between now and 2020.
Education and Skills – School Patronage Maynooth 21st January 2014
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of meeting the requirements as set out by the school authorities at Maynooth Post Primary School, County Kildare...
Public Expenditure and Reform: Stabilisation of National Pay Bill 10th October 2013
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the national pay bill has been stabilised or reduced since he took up office...
Public Expenditure and Reform: Savings achieved through insurance cost reductions and public procurement 10th October 2013
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which his Department has succeeded in making savings through insurance cost reductions and public procurement in each of the past two years to date...
Speech: Freedom of Information Bill 2013
I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak on this particularly important and sensitive piece of legislation. I can reminisce on all the times that some of us spent on the other side of the House, which happens to be vacant, and to remember the number of occasions on which we were excluded from access to information which was urgent, relevant and relative to the running of the country...