Results 4,601-4,620 of 9,823 for speaker:Thomas Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding schools that need new car parking facilities; and the funding is available to them for same. [26699/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new building will be provided for a school (details supplied). [26716/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Excellence Fund (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the objectives and modus operandi of the schools excellence fund as described in the response to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 3 May 2017 appears to be identical to those of the school completion programme which budget has been decimated since 2012 and which the ESRI review report of the programme identified very...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €600 million base funding requirement in higher education institutions by 2021 identified by the Cassells report includes the €124 million that has been set aside from the calculation of the fiscal space for demographic increases in third level in 2018 and 2019. [27229/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the surplus of the national training fund cannot be used for capital expenditure at higher education institutions. [27230/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the expenditure allocation for the national training fund is determined; and if its expenditure envelope can increase with growing revenues. [27231/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the proposed employer-employee contribution mechanism was established within the NTF; and if some of the surplus in the investment account can be utilised for funding higher education institutions. [27749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the surplus or deficit for the year, the surplus brought forward by 1 January and the surplus carried forward at 31 December in relation to the income and expenditure account of the national training fund in each of the years 2000 to 2016, in tabular form. [27750/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request the HEA to undertake a detailed longitudinal survey on graduate career outcomes (details supplied). [27412/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount in the investment account of the national training fund; and the investments which can be made from the fund. [27521/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussion his Department has had with Safefood on the introduction of its media awareness course mediawise in schools. [27812/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is State regulation as to the way in which panels for the employment of teachers in particular church dioceses operate in respect of schools under Catholic patronage. [28039/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding to each ETB or VEC in each of the years from 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [28115/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Expenditure (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding to each ETB or VEC under the VTOS programme in each of the years from 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [28207/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Fees (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the welcome ban on enrolment applications fees in the forthcoming Admissions to School Bill 2016 will consequentially require a significant increase in capitation payments to schools; and if his Department has estimated the amount of funding schools on average and in aggregate will lose out on as a result of this ban....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there is merit in amending the Education Act 1998 to give the Minister powers to designate areas in which centrally operated, State-administered school enrolment system could operate as suggested by a person (details supplied). [28502/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of out of field mathematics and science teachers at junior cycle and senior cycle level. [28580/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of post primary teachers in science or maths subjects that do not hold a graduate qualification; the number that do not hold a graduate qualification in a science or maths subject; the number that hold a graduate qualification in a science or maths subject; and the number that hold a post graduate qualification in a science or maths...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of secondary schools that do not offer physics or chemistry as a subject; and the percentage of secondary schools not offering these subjects according to whether they are mixed, girls and boys schools. [28582/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new primary school mathematics curriculum will be made available to teachers; and the timeframe it is expected to commence being taught. [28583/17]