Results 4,821-4,840 of 9,930 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: It has been reported in the newspapers that the Minister has agreed to buy the greyhound track at Harold's Cross for approximately €23 million, or perhaps up to €28 million. I do not expect the Minister to talk about individual transactions, although if he can, all the better, because it is a lot of money. I want to make clear that we support the provision of schools and we...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: The Minister said the cost is one twentieth of the budget. Is that for this transaction on its own?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: That transaction is more than €20 million, according to newspaper reports.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Is that transaction on its own going to double the land costs within the Department?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: One twentieth is about €25 million.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: This relates to the need for schools in Dublin city.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: I want to ask generally about the capital programme. When the Department provides a new school for an existing national or voluntary school that is in the ownership of a patron, what happens the ownership of the old school building or old school site if the original school has moved on? Is that something the Department takes an interest in or is it just left to the patron body to do what it...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: What about the deal done to take over the old property of the school?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: I heard of a case - I will not name the school because it is just talk - where one school is getting a new building on a new site. The rumour is that a hotel is moving in, although I cannot verify that. There should be some programme in the Department to examine this matter, because they all have a value. It would seem to me that if the Minister is providing a new school and a new site, as...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Is it the case that a patron could profit from the Department of Education and Skills providing a new school building on a new site, if the Department is buying the site?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: The new site and building go to the patron eventually, is that right?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Does the old site stay with the patron?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: That would represent a windfall for the patron.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: I can see that point if the patron provided the site originally or if a community group provided it on behalf of a patron, which can happen too. Should there not be some arrangement, however, simply to help replenish the coffers? If the State is going to provide a new school site and replace a school building, we should be asking the patron to sign over the existing building when all that...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: Are there examples of that?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Resumed)
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (16 May 2017) Thomas Byrne: I was sceptical, but I actually think it was good.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding provided by his Department in 2017 for funding apprenticeships; and the number of apprenticeships that are currently being funded. [22748/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Stay Safe Programme (16 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been allocated to schools to implement the child abuse prevention programme; and his views on whether this is adequate. [22750/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (16 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department caps per-pupil primary school funding at 500 pupils; and the rationale and justification for this. [22751/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (16 May 2017)
Thomas Byrne: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017 to primary schools and post-primary schools for additional Traveller support, in tabular form. [22752/17]