A proposal by Leitrim Fianna Fáil Senator Paschal Mooney to invite Tamboran Resources to appear in front of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has been approved unanimously. Read More
The Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn has displayed a complete lack of respect for students this week by casually announcing annual increases in college registration fees over the next four years, according to Fianna Fáil Education Spokesperson Brendan Smith. Read More
The motion before the house tonight on behalf of the Fianna Fáil party clearly outlines our concerns in relation to the adverse affects the changes proposed to the staffing schedule for small schools will cause, to many communities, throughout the country. Read More
Fianna Fáil has condemned the Government’s covert attempts to force the closure of small schools in communities around the country through sweeping cuts and amalgamations without any consultation. Fianna Fáil will tonight (Tuesday, 31 January) move a Dáil motion exposing and objecting to this discriminatory policy that will result in many communities losing their local school. Read More
As a result of Government cuts in the Budget, Career Guidance and Counselling provision will be managed by second-level schools from within their standard teacher allocation. We in the Fianna Fáil Party believe that this decision will not only lead to the end of the Guidance Counselling profession but its effect will be felt most by vulnerable and disadvantaged students. Read More
Fianna Fáil will today call for a full reversal of the Government’s decision to dismantle the provision of guidance counsellors to schools, resulting in the elimination of 700 teaching posts and the end of a service relied on by the nation's most vulnerable students. Read More
Fianna Fáil has welcomed a series of reports today confirming the success of the previous Government's DEIS programme in tackling educational disadvantage, and further exposing the irrationality of the cuts announced by Fine Gael and the Labour Party in December's Budget. Read More
Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Education Brendan Smith is calling on the government to reverse its decisions in budget 2012 to remove 428 DEIS posts from primary and post primary schools, resulting in a significant increase in the pupil teacher ratio in disadvantages schools. Read More
Cavan Fianna Fáil TD Brendan Smith and Meath Senator Thomas Byrne have pledged their support to workers at the Lagan Brick manufacturing plant in Kingscourt following the news that the plant on the Cavan-Meath border is closing immediately, with loss of 29 jobs. Read More
The Government has singled out disadvantaged schools for significant cuts to teacher numbers next year in another series of callous cuts in Budget 2012, according to Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Education & Skills Brendan Smith. Read More
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