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  • PJ Coleman: Exactly! And yet you want student to stay pigeon-holed based on their CAO points. (23 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: So instead at the moment you have people who are stuck into courses they don't want and who have been selected on their ability to quote Shakespeare rather than their ability in Chemistry. (23 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Generic entries into large 1st years, where lectures are indeed taking place in large theatres but supplemented with many small tutorials and practicals is what is done on 90% the continent. ... (23 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: "the academic community will actually be at the heart of any bottom-up process around the design and implementation of technological university" what is the time scale for this? It has not... (21 January 2016)
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  • Mary Caffrey: The Department of Education fund and are therefor responsible for School Transport. It is not acceptable to secure savings at the cost of safety standards on School Transport. How can it be... (19 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Who on earth would want to merge public institutions without the consent of staff? Can you imagine the mess if staff withdrew their goodwill? (16 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Well they are forced mergers: merge or otherwise... is coercion. (16 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Please don't give up on this one. Anybody should be able to criticise the government and its policies full stop. (16 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Well yes, except that the main competency in a higher level institution comes from academics: it is they who teach, research and administrate. (16 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Extensive consultation? Certainly none with actual academics. (16 January 2016)
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  • Asylum Seeker: Number of adult asylum seekers in direct provision approximately 2990 Number of child asylum seekers in direct provision Approximately 1100 Weekly allowance €19.10 per adult for 52... (12 December 2015)
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  • Asylum Seeker: Have the weekly allowances increased for asylum seekers? If so, would like to know when exactly it has been increased? If not, why the Government spent €3.5 million on direct provision... (12 December 2015)
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  • Mary Phelan: Did the population go down due to people moving away or something ? (6 December 2015)
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  • TONY ROCHFORD: NSAI who set the standards and guidelines have admitted that there is no one qualified to understand the issue ie. micro biologists sitting on building committee . There are also huge problems... (5 December 2015)
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  • TONY ROCHFORD: The petition Petition No. 40/14, disease rates linked to central heating systems is from Mr. Tony Rochford. Since 2000, a large percentage of plumbers started to use single check non-return... (4 December 2015)
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  • Mike O'Meara: Minister Donohoe confirms that the Department of Transport have a clear anti-rail policy in place. Only in Ireland would we not consider the Wider Economic Benefits of passenger rail services as... (2 December 2015)
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  • Mike O'Meara: Minister Donohoe clearly does not understand the extent of the rail network as Kilcock and Enfield are already on the rail network and have stations! What Deputy Durkan was asking for was the... (2 December 2015)
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  • PJ Coleman: It is easy to imagine: lecturers have no time to keep up with technology especially in fast changing areas such as computing. Quality of teaching is going down. Stop the box ticking check... (2 December 2015)
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  • TJ McIntyre: This answer fails to address the fact that there is very little information on the prevalence of cybercrime in Ireland. Because Irish law generally treats cybercrime as a variant of "ordinary"... (1 December 2015)
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  • Barbara K: http://theenchantingvalley.ning.com/prof iles/blogs/quite-startling-31m-of-church -property-for-redress-fund-yet-to-be Please take a look at the above link and see what is happing to... (27 November 2015)
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  • Owen Boyden: For Public Dissemination I, Owen Boyden, an Irish citizen and director of The West Cork Fluoride Free Campaign and The National Fluoride Free Towns Project wish to provide a refutation for... (22 November 2015)
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  • evelyne phelan: I totally agree with you Jennifer, only HSE could purport to have a VR Scheme that achieves nothing re staff reductions. This is yet another scheme that does not work within HSE, NOT UNUSUAL. ... (18 November 2015)
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  • Anne Frawley: Why has the Minister not stopped all granting of planning for Wind Farms until these guidelines have been published? (12 November 2015)
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  • Margaret english: I can assure you that the families of Dundalk Bombing got no support, my father Hugh Watters was murdered in this bombing, we werent even informed by the Gardai my dad was dead , his three... (11 November 2015)
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  • Tanya Felloni: since the fire in Carrickmines the most sensible thing to do would be assess every site for fire and safety. Has S.D.C.C assessed Any of the sites in the area?? They certainly haven't even... (10 November 2015)
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