Results 4,041-4,060 of 9,929 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: That should be the subtitle to this Government, "it takes time".
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I wish to speak on the same issue.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Yes, No. 6.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: That cannot be done.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: It is no laughing matter for my constituents, particularly in the context of public transport. When they read the newspapers this morning, they will have seen a lot of good news about proposals to electrify the line to Maynooth, Dunboyne and Drogheda, but what my constituents really want to know is what is the Government doing here and now. What is happening today? What is it delivering on...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach should stop lying.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Is the Taoiseach joking?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: That is a few years back.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: It has not had any effect in those few years.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: This is unprecedented.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Give answers.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: He has nothing to do.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: That Department has no function.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Yes, they are just thriving.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Very small.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of the Examinations Commission in rounding up percentage results, for example, if a student gets 29.83%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5340/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a pass mark in the leaving certificate maths exam is expressed in percentage terms. [5341/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when commencement of a new building for a school (details supplied) will take place. [5519/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: There is much talk about plans but it worries me that the planning appears to be centred on Eir and Eir's strategy for the next year. Eir has a strategy for its own rural network and, before yesterday, apparently had a strategy for the rest of the rural network. I posted on Facebook yesterday, for my constituents, that Eir had pulled out of the national broadband plan. I view that as a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The lack of broadband in rural schools is as big a threat to those schools as depopulation in some parts of the country and the cut to the pupil-teacher ratio for small schools that was introduced by the former Minister, Ruairí Quinn. That is the truth. Parents will look askance at schools that cannot provide the full educational experience to their students. As I said previously, the...