Results 1-20 of 413 for speaker:Dominic Bradley

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Rural Schools (17 Nov 2009)

Dominic Bradley: I beg to move That this Assembly notes that many of our smaller schools are under the viability quota proposed in the Department of Education sustainable schools policy; and calls on the Minister of Education to enact suitable pilot projects to develop ways of maintaining the viability of our smaller schools. Tá an-áthas orm an rún seo a mholadh. I am delighted to move the...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: British-Irish Council Summit Meeting (17 Nov 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Go raibh maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as a ráiteas. Tugaim faoi deara óna ráiteas go bhfuil fo-ghrúpa le bunú i mí na Nollag leis an Chairt Eorpach ar Theangacha Réigiúnacha agus Mionlaigh a iniúchadh agus a phlé. Arbh fhéidir leis an Aire a dhearbhú go bhfoilseoidh a Roinn an tuairisc...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: Together Towards Entitlement (16 Nov 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Má fheictear don Aire go bhfuil gá le scoileanna áirithe an deis a thapú, an ionann sin is a rá go bhfuil siad ag tarraingt na gcos ina ndiaidh? An féidir leis an Aire an drogall sin a mhíniú? An féidir léi a rá cad iad na háiseanna breise a bheas ar fáil do scoileanna leis an...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (10 Nov 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Will the Member give way?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (10 Nov 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Will the Member confirm explicitly what he has said implicitly: the cross-community mechanism has been chosen by the two main parties and his own party in particular to exclude a nationalist from the position of Minister of justice? In fact, the Member has said what the SDLP has said all along, and the message is that no nationalists need apply.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Education: Pupil Emotional Health and Well-being Programme (2 Nov 2009)

Dominic Bradley: An bhféadfainn a fhiafraí den Aire an raibh aon chomhoibriú idir a Roinn féin agus an Roinn Sláinte nuair a bhí an plean gníomhaíochta ar an uathachas á phleanáil? An mbeidh aon pháirt ag a Roinn i gcur i gcrích an phlean sin? What level of co-operation took place between the Minister’s Department and the Department of Health,...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Office Of The First Minister And Deputy First Minister: OFMDFM: Joint Working (19 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Go raibh maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. Does the First Minister agree that greater integration and cohesion in OFMDFM would send out a much more positive message to the general public and help to realise the full potential of devolution?

Northern Ireland Assembly: OFFICE OF THE First Minister  and deputy First Minister: Fair Employment and Treatment  Order 1998: Teachers’ Exemption (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Is it not the case that those exemptions were made largely at the behest of the Protestant Churches, which sought to ensure that the ethos of Protestant schools that transferred, and succeeding schools, would be protected?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Will the Member give way?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Go raibh míle maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. It is well known that the SDLP sees academic selection as educationally unsound and socially unacceptable. However, we realise that movement from one system to another cannot be done overnight and requires a planned and structured transition so that parents, teachers, pupils and schools know the various steps involved.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Of course I value the contribution to education made by all the schools in my constituency, both selective and non-selective. However, many selective schools now realise that their position is untenable in the future and are beginning to make arrangements to admit a wider range of ability. That will happen not overnight but gradually, and I welcome that very much. As I was saying before Mr...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: — on the basis of all-party talks to break the deadlock. We ask the Alliance Party to clarify its amendment.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Will it mean that all schools use a transfer test? Will any school be allowed to select its full intake by testing?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: If we receive answers to those questions —

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: — we will consider supporting the amendment.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Will the Member give way?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Will the Member give way?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: I notice the growing warmth in the relationship between the Member’s party and the Tory Party. Consequently, does the Member agree with the Tory skills spokesperson, David Willetts, who said: “academic selection entrenches advantage, it does not spread it”?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Dominic Bradley: So you do not agree with him.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Education: Preschool Provision: South Belfast (28 Sep 2009)

Dominic Bradley: Go raibh míle maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as an méid eolais a thug sí dúinn go dtí seo. Tá ceist agam uirthi maidir le ról na Gaelscolaíochta ag an leibhéal réamhscolaíochta. Will the Minister assure the House that the pre-school education expansion programme provides a level playing field for...