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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I will let Mr. John Irwin come back in and then Dr. Rowland very briefly at the end. Charges were made against the latter, so I will have to get his response to them as well as to queries.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I will let Dr. Rowland in to respond to questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Go raibh maith agat, Dr. Rowland. Ba mhaith liomsa mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le gach duine a tháinig anseo inniu. Beidh an coiste ag scríobh tuarascáil maidir le gach rud a bhí le rá sa choiste agus na moltaí atá curtha os ár gcomhair inniu agus ag na cruinnithe eile. Beimid ag plé leo go príobháideach agus ag scríobh na...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: It was secret information.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will meet with representatives of community employment supervisors. [17867/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school sites which have been agreed in principle and-or announced as having been agreed which have not been fully conveyed, transferred or leased to his Department by the date the agreement was reached or announced as having been reached. [17919/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme Eligibility (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 466. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person who is in receipt of a disability allowance and the fuel allowance is eligible for the SEAI warmer homes scheme. [17674/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme Eligibility (24 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to extend the eligibility criteria of the SEAI warmer homes scheme. [17675/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (19 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 15. To ask the Minister for Health the number of counselling and educational psychologists required to complete extensive in-service training in order to maintain eligibility for their own jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17031/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (19 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sites have been identified and secured and permission granted for proposed new primary schools in areas (details supplied) in tabular form. [17186/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (19 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sites have been identified and secured and permission granted for proposed new post primary schools in areas (details supplied). [17193/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of the recently announced new primary school for Dunshaughlin, County Meath; if a preferred site has been selected; and when the tendering process is likely to commence. [17344/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (19 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he plans to proceed with the patronage of the recently announced new primary school for Dunshaughlin, County Meath; and if a local survey of prospective parents will be undertaken by his Department. [17345/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (19 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location the new regional secondary school between Drogheda and Laytown school catchment areas is to be located in the context of the recent new school announcements. [17346/18]
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We can stand on our own feet and had proposed it long before the Deputies jumped on it.
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We are approaching it in a proper way.
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: There must be.
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I am sharing my time with my colleagues, Deputies Fiona O'Loughlin and Declan Breathnach. We in Fianna Fáil acknowledge and support the call from the Citizens' Assembly and the Oireachtas committee on the eighth amendment for improvements in sexual health and relationship education in schools, youth clubs and other settings. Similarly, we acknowledge and support the calls from the...
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We acknowledge there is an issue. We want to see fact-based and respect-based relationships and sexuality education in schools-----
- Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: -----but one cannot just up-end the entire system on which our education system is based without consulting the partners involved. I certainly hope many of them will appear before the education committee. I am sure members of Solidarity who are not members of the education committee will be able to attend its hearings and ask questions in the most thorough fashion. It is the case that...