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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I want to remind Members and witnesses to please an féidir libh bhur teileafóin a mhúchadh. Turn off your telephones or switch them to flight mode. Any statement you make might not be audible on the television, and we would hate for that to happen. Mobile phones interfere with the sound system and make it difficult for parliamentary reporters, who work so hard to report the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Go raibh maith agat. The TUI's views were very clearly expressed. As we have a busy meeting, I ask all speakers to keep to the allotted time as far as possible. I call Ms Jane Hayes-Nally of the Irish Second-Level Students Union.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am not going to stop Ms Hayes-Nally but I have been more lenient to her than her teacher colleagues so if she could summarise the rest, I would appreciate it as we are under huge time pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Thank you. The full submission will be put on the committee's website and will be taken into account by committee members. I will call on Mr. Paul Rolston to speak next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: We are here as long as it takes but unfortunately a lot of other speakers have to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I ask the witness to sum up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I thank Mr. Boyle. I will now invite members to ask questions. Although I cannot tell members what to say or do, we should remember that the purpose of the meeting is to elicit information and clarify what has been said already. The witnesses have presented very clearly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I gave Deputy Jim Daly some latitude because it is his Bill and it was important for him to make that contribution. However, we are trying to elicit the views of the witnesses. Does anybody else wish to speak?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Thank you, Mr. MacGabhann. On behalf of the committee and the Chairman, who was unfortunately detained elsewhere for the past hour, I thank the witnesses for coming before us today. It was a very informative and productive session and their views were extremely clearly put. I am very grateful to all of them. We all learned a lot from today's insights and observations. It is good at times...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Implications of Brexit for the Irish Educational System: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I thank everybody for their presentations. I apologise for my brief absence at the start of the meeting. The committee will probably debate this matter over the next two years. We will not know what is going to happen in terms of all of the individual issues until negotiations start. Brexit poses opportunities and challenges and there will be wins and losses. More money is needed to...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Recently, in accordance with the confidence and supply agreement, there was a circular issued to schools in regard to guidance counselling. There has been a lot of worry in schools that this circular did not ring-fence guidance counselling. The Taoiseach provided a note to my leader, Deputy Micheál Martin, which made clear that the guidance provision was ex quota but that has not been...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: We should definitely phase it out.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance if diagnosed severe autism will be included on the criteria for a primary medical certificate. [12966/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the rule book of every Revenue Commissioner staff pension scheme commenced in the 1970s and 1980s which would affect staff currently retiring. [13529/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of all forms the Revenue Commissioners used in the 1970s and 1980s providing for opt in and opt out in respect of spouse and child pension provision for staff members. [13554/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of staff members in the Revenue Commissioners that have opted out of spouse and child pension provision. [13555/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an assessment by a child psychologist of the National Educational Psychological Service will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied). [12874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review on Caranua; and the expected date of completion for the report. [12896/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for refusal of a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied). [13051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the position of the DEIS programme in view of recent errors being discovered in the DEIS list. [13897/17]