Application for Patronage of Carrigaline, Secondary Gael School Welcome- Clune. January 23rd 2012. Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune today has welcomed the application made by Cork VEC and An Foras Pátrúnachta to the Department of Education to become patrons of the new Irish secondary school in Carrigaline. This follows on form Minister’s Ruairi Quinn’s announcement [...]

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Funding Allocated for Cork School’s Projects Welcome –Clune Monday 19th December. Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune has today welcomed the news form the Minister of Education and Skills Ruari Quinn that four Cork schools are to receive funding for building works. The Minister announced today details of the schools that are planned to advance into [...]

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Senator Deirdre Clune has welcomed the fact that the Minister for Education & Skills Ruairi Quinn’s proposals to radically overhaul the Junior Cert will include renaming the exam. The Minister stated “this radically different examination needs a new name. I have asked the people directly concerned to give suggestions for a new name”.  A radical [...]

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Fine Gael Innovation Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has called on Education Minister Mary Coughlan TD to address Ireland’s underperforming standards in maths education. In the last few weeks Ireland’s underperformance in the maths education has been highlighted by two reports, one international and one from the Department of Education. The findings of the international PISA [...]

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Cork Fine Gael TD Deirdre Clune has highlighted that more than two months into the college year of 5,926 applications in Cork for Higher Education Grants only 713 have been awarded. A further 1,837 of these applications have yet to be even processed. This information was released to Fine Gael this week from the Department [...]

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Click here for my view of the Government’s record on providing ICT & High Speed Broadband to schools. Click here to view the full video clip of my Question to the Minister for Education regarding the Broadband & ICT in schools and the reply from Minister of State Mary White TD. My Priority Parliamentary Question [...]

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With Science Week currently underway, Fine Gael Innovation & Research Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD has raised the Government’s failure to invest in information and communication technology (ICT) and provide high speed broadband to Irish schools. The Government’s record on improving the quality of ICT and broadband to schools has been nothing short of abysmal. Just [...]

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Click here to view the video clip of my questions to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Innovation Batt O’Keeffe TD about the Government’s lack of action on Graduate Unemployment. I took the opportunity to outline to the Minister to crisis in Graduate Unemployment which has been estimated by the Union of Student’s in Ireland [...]

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