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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (23 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of children with additional care needs in each of the years 2020 to 2025 who will require the support of a special needs assistant in tabular form. [43716/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Any high-vis jackets left?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Congratulations.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I do not know; I do not know.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 81. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to assist in the planning for provision of further childcare places in County Meath. [43217/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 83. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to improve funding for youth services in County Meath. [43216/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special needs in receipt of home tuition due to the fact that a suitable school place cannot be found; the number in June 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42945/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the educational services provided at a centre (details supplied); if planning is under way to provide a location for services to be provided in another location; if the location has been identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43135/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants required to complete the roll-out of the new school inclusion model; if the posts have been provided for in budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43544/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide alternative accommodation to the pupils of a school (details supplied). [43545/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeships: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: She will be back in three or four minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeships: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Someone, I cannot remember who it was, stated in one of the newspapers that nobody should recommend an apprenticeship until the middle and professional classes and the politicians start deciding their children should pursue them. That is a good point. I am aware that the Institute of Guidance Counsellors is working very closely with the organisations. That is important and in fairness to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeships: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I saw a reference to FET on Twitter but there is a FET college in my constituency, namely, Dunboyne college, which works closely with SOLAS and Louth and Meath Education and Training Board, LMETB. It is currently leasing 14 premises and bussing kids to Navan. The LMETB was looking for a site but the Department has stopped it, meaning they have cancelled the project to build a new place....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeships: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: The problem I have is that the Government will tell us the money is available but then, when we want to go and build it, the Department tells us we cannot do so. That is a political point in which I do not expect Mr. Brownlee to engage.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I thank Deputy Burton for raising this matter. I have a question further down the list of questions about the matter because I do not know if this also applies to other colleges around the country. The roadblock to which the Minister referred is not in LMETB. The roadblock is a letter that his Department issued on 3 October baldly stating that the Department is not prepared to consider...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I am asking the Minister to consider the matter further when his Department has said it will not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I acknowledge what the Minister says about Dublin 15. I ask him to confirm that all of those classes and schools are open. He and his Department seem to be under a misapprehension regarding the purpose of the legislation, which gives the power to force classes to open. That is not a tool to plan school places. It is there for a small number of recalcitrant schools that refuse to do their...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: If it was 17 August, it might be appropriate to state that training is being done, that everything is being made ready and that the parents want everything to be right. The latter is something I do not doubt. However, it is 17 October, weeks into the school year, and the Minister is happy to keep telling us about all of this work being done in, I remind the House, the Taoiseach's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure each child with a special need has a school place in the 2019-20 school year; and if he will report on the planning under way for special education places in September 2020. [42700/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Some of my constituents have contacted me since I asked the first question. I am pleased they are watching proceedings here, but they are also very concerned about the issues raised this morning with regard to the Government's plans for capital spending. My question is to ask the Minister his plans to ensure that each child with special educational needs has a place in school next...