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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Nowhere in the Minister of State's reply, nor anywhere in the public commentary of the Minister for Health has the reason for not providing the vaccine been given. Rather, the Government is standing over what it says is the advice given to it and providing no further comment or answers. Approximately ten years ago, there was a review of patient safety in Navan hospital. Other Deputies...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I agree with the comments of my party colleague, Deputy Brassil, who is a pharmacist and a qualified health professional. Indeed, I am very grateful to him for the advice he has given to me on this issue. The State should be glad that parents are very concerned about a vaccine programme and want it to be made available to more children, given that have been several controversies around...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when permanent buildings will be provided for schools (details supplied). [54173/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of new accommodation for a school (details supplied). [54174/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, special classes in County Meath. [54535/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a town (details supplied) in County Meath does not have an ASD unit. [54536/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to deliver special classes and ASD units in the schools to be newly opened in September 2019. [54537/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Service Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary schools that do not have access to high speed broadband. [1513/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 562. To ask the Minister for Health the timescale for the results of repeat cervical smears; and the reason for delays in relation to the matter. [54153/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance Fraud (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 887. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the practice of some drivers obtaining a motor insurance disc by paying a small deposit and then not paying the balance but keeping the insurance disc; and his plans to deal with the issue. [54151/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I am certainly not late to this issue. On one day in recent months my office handled 17 separate complaints, including one from an individual from an estate within walking distance of the Minister's office who was not able to get any satisfaction from that office. Another case the Minister describes as a party is that of a lady with breast cancer who initially came to me through a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: My colleague, Deputy O'Dea, tells me that it is not correct that all GPs have signed up. In fact more than 70% of GPs have confirmed that they are still using the old form. As recently as yesterday we were on to the Department about a constituent who religiously and routinely sends in her certificates weekly but who has been deprived of payment. We do not want apologies. We have heard the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the burden imposed on those who were denied rightful entitlement to illness benefit at various points during 2018; and the way in which she plans to address same. [53255/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I raise this question in relation to the scandalous recent and ongoing delays in illness benefit payments. The introduction of the new IT system platform launched in the summer was very poorly handled. Constituents cannot understand how the most vulnerable citizens, those who are working and have had to leave employment because of serious illness, are left in a completely penurious state....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: It is an outrageous statement that I am late to the party.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: This is no party for my constituents. I have been in touch with the Minister's office over this. It is not a party.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: We are talking about people who have cancer.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a new primary school in Ashbourne, County Meath. [53526/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy Staff (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of speech therapists appointed by his Department in 2018 as part of its demonstration project. [53780/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Data (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new and renewed SUSI applications received, respectively; the number granted in part and granted in full, respectively; the number of appeals made to unsuccessful applications; and the number of appeals granted for the academic year 2018-19 to the end of November 2018, by county in tabular form. [54016/18]