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Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2017)

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Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: On the pupil-teacher ratio, I know from my constituency that our class sizes are among the biggest in the country but this is a country-wide issue. No progress has yet been made on this despite its being subject to a key commitment in the confidence and supply agreement. It is very important, not just to this party but also to the country as a whole. It is also a commitment in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (3 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 385. To ask the Minister for Health when a drug will be available for a person (details supplied) who has been prescribed nivolumab [41552/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 333. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a further podiatrist in County Meath will be made available in budget 2018; and the reason for the sudden increase in the number of persons with diabetes hospitalised for foot ulceration treatment in County Meath. [41415/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for persons that have been approved for counselling under the counselling in primary care, CIPC, in County Meath; and the number of persons on the waiting list in County Meath. [41530/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [41537/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (3 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 495. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for broadband services to be available under the national broadband scheme at Gillstown, Garlow Cross, Navan, County Meath. [41407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (3 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 500. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband services will be available under the national broadband scheme at a person's (details supplied) home. [41717/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (3 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 506. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the townlands in County Meath in which there will be State intervention under the national broadband plan. [41856/17]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Information and Communications Technology (3 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 562. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to ongoing issues with the Tidy Towns website; and if his attention has been further drawn to the annoyance and confusion that this problem has caused Tidy Towns groups across the country in accessing adjudicators reports and the results for the 2017 competition. [41561/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: When is the Government going to get to grips with public transport, particularly in the context of the programme for Government commitments to improve it? There are many people throughout the country who get up early in the morning, as the Government likes to say. They are currently being discommoded by Bus Éireann, which is seemingly unable to provide a predictable and reliable...

Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: As well as being rejected by the teachers’ unions individually. The Minister failed to outline when this process will start. He said there were no deadlines as to its conclusion but he did not say when it will start. In a public press statement, the INTO is under the impression this will start soon. The agreement provides it will start in 12 months. Will the Minister say here...

Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Approximately 11,000 teachers have qualified since 2011 and are on pay scales lower than those of their colleagues who qualified prior to that year. Over the next 12 months, demographic pressures mean that another 5,000 teachers will enter this cohort. If the Government led by the Fine Gael Party sticks to its commitment under the confidence-and-supply agreement to reduce the pupil-teacher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Service Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) can expect to be connected to broadband that will meet the school community's needs. [41055/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 237. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a school (details supplied) can expect to be connected to broadband that will meet the school community's needs. [41054/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (27 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concept of streamlining; if there is such a concept in the provision and allocation of special needs assistants; and the meaning of same in terms of the provision of special needs assistants. [40894/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (27 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have been approved home help or a home support package but that are on a waiting list to receive either due to a lack of available staff in County Meath. [41003/17]

Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Recently, the Taoiseach published a document in a newspaper in which he outlined his vision for Ireland. I was searching through it for his vision for education but it was extremely limited. Blink and you will miss it. One thing the Taoiseach did commit to was technological universities and he suggested they would be coming as a matter or urgency. The Taoiseach will recall that this party...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Breaches of Fire Safety Standards: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: All of this is extremely worrying, but the slowness of the Department in coming clean publicly is particularly worrying. This issue has been coming to the boil since 2008 and has featured in the media at various times in the past few years, but the first detailed statement on it from the Department was only issued on 1 September, on foot of which I requested that this meeting take place. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Breaches of Fire Safety Standards: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: What is going on here is utterly shocking and beggars belief when one looks at it in the round. Essentially, the Minister has confessed that information on the safety of children and staff in schools has been hidden deliberately by the Department for a number of years as a matter of policy. It is only because of the persistence of a number of journalists in making freedom of information...