Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Trainee Teachers.
- Carysfort teacher-training intake 9 speeches
Higgins asks about Carysfort’s trainee intake and seeks assurances on future training and staff redeployment. O’Rourke says no trainees were admitted because the previous Government stopped intake in 1986, and defends that decision.
Jim Higgins, Mary O'Rourke, Gemma Hussey
- Availability for work and literacy courses 3 speeches
Higgins seeks an Adjournment debate on unemployment assistance being withdrawn from people taking literacy courses, including an investigation in Connemara; the Ceann Comhairle says he will communicate with him.
Seán Treacy, Michael D. Higgins
- DIT students’ EC maintenance grants 2 speeches
Hussey seeks a debate on Dublin Institute of Technology students who have not received EC maintenance grants this year; the Ceann Comhairle says he will communicate with her.
Gemma Hussey, Seán Treacy
- Subject matter of Question No. 17 2 speeches
Deasy seeks an Adjournment debate on the subject of Question No. 17. The Ceann Comhairle will communicate with him and urges Deputies to raise such matters on the Order of Business to preserve priority-question time.
Austin Deasy, Seán Treacy
asked the Minister for Education, the number of first year trainee teachers admitted to Carysfort training college, County Dublin, this year.
Comment on this
I have just one supplementary. In view of the remarkable U-turn or S-bend by the Minister in relation to her commitments when in Opposition to the retention of Carysfort as a training college, is she prepared to guarantee that whatever rearrangement emerges there will be a high element of teacher training and that the existing staff will not be made redundant but will be redeployed within the existing structure?
Comment on this
To answer the question which Deputy Higgins posed earlier and now again, the intake of primary school teacher trainees into Carysfort was stopped by a Minister in the Deputy's Government following a decision of February 1986. There was no intake following that last year or this year. Perhaps Deputy Higgins wants to escape from that now and then but it is a fact.
Comment on this
The Deputy asked why there was no intake. The question was to ask the Minister for Education the number of first year trainee teachers admitted to Carysfort training college, County Dublin, this year. I have pointed out that the previous Government in the previous year made a decision and they carried it through in their Estimate of that year and again in January of this year.
Comment on this
I give notice that I wish to raise on the Adjournment the interpretation of the term "availability for work" since it is causing hardship to those taking literacy courses who have had their unemployment assistance removed from them and also because of an investigation which is currently taking place in the Lettermore-Lettermullan area of Connemara.
Comment on this
I wish to raise on the Adjournment the crisis facing third level students at the Dublin Institute of Technology who are not receiving any EC grants for maintenance and have not received any this year.
Comment on this
I wish to raise on the Adjournment the subject matter of Question No. 17 on today's Order Paper.