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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: Overall, the proposed Supplementary Estimate appears to be benign in that the Minister is proposing to increase the Department's net voted allocation from €8.2 billion to €8.3 billion. The capital budget is being increased by €100 million from €427 million. While I welcome the decision to build more schools, the proposed increase amounts to approximately 25% of...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: Many view it as meaning that construction will start.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: In other words, the phrase "construction will start" does not mean that it will start-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: Tonight I will meet parents to discuss Whitecross national school which has been waiting for construction work to start for ten years. It was due to start-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: The figure the Minister gave looks a bit higher than that.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: Okay.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: First, could I get more clarity on that figure for the IOTs because the Minister did not really answer the question? When I did the sums based on the number of staff the Minister stated were retiring, it came to €189,000 per retiree. That was different from the average figures the Minister gave and it would not be low enough to include their pensions. There is an extra €100...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: It just seems a lot of money. I do not begrudge someone getting a lump sum of that amount but the average figures are substantially in excess of what the lump sums would be.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: Can the Minister give me the figure for this year and for next year, including this Estimate?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: I want the figure for 2016.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: The note said the Department outturned 1,000 more places than expected this year.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: Will the Minister be making a major capital works announcement in the next couple of weeks, as often happens before Christmas, or is it just going to be the programme that is already in place?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: They are already on the list that was published a year ago.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: May I ask one further question on that? In the major capital programme announced a year ago, there was a list of new secondary and primary schools but there was also another list, indicating that other schools may be required from 2018 and thereafter. Has the Department done work in order that it can be stated more definitively that schools will be required in those areas listed? Are there...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: Are there no announcements upcoming on new schools in general?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (30 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide special accommodation, as necessary, for exam students with epilepsy or who otherwise suffer periodic seizures; and if he will engage with representative organisations on this matter. [37843/16]
- Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: I hope a lesson has been learnt here. It is a very expensive lesson. I wonder whether the Department will investigate this matter. At the time, the Fine Gael Party locally was thanked by various people involved in the project for its assistance in this regard. This needs to be looked at more closely. More importantly, this premises needs to be taken over by Údarás na Gaeltachta...
- Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: I did not. I did not know anything about them. They were announced by the Taoiseach.
- Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 29. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the costs incurred by the State in terms of grants, rent abatement and clean-up costs associated with a factory (details supplied) in County Meath. [37410/16]
- Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Is oth liom go gcaithfidh mé an cheist seo a chur ar an Aire Stáit inniu. Nuair a seoladh an monarchan seo i mBaile Ghib bhí ionadaithe ón Roinn agus, measaim, an Taoiseach ann. Bhí a lán daoine á chéiliúradh nuair a bunaíodh an monarchan seo, ach tá sé go léir tar éis titim as a chéile. Cé mhéad airgead...