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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Dundalk Institute of Technology and SOLAS: Chairpersons Designate (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I thank Mr. Aylward for his continuing service to the State. It is welcome that he is getting involved with SOLAS. I will not ask him questions. He is clearly qualified for the job and determining whether that is so is not our role anyway. For what it is worth, I will share some of my views arising from what we have dealt with in recent years. The back-slapping about apprenticeships has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Dundalk Institute of Technology and SOLAS: Chairpersons Designate (17 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: A good bag to carry.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 33. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the Hill of Tara. [51895/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to make the Irish language more viable in County Meath. [51894/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a patronage competition has been completed for each of the 42 schools announced in April 2018; if each school has been established; if so, the date on which each was established; if each school opened in September 2019; and if each school has been provided with a permanent location in tabular form. [52192/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 70 major school building projects in advanced architectural planning; and the expected completion date of each project in tabular form. [52193/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for emergency works being considered. [52295/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for emergency works refused to date in 2019. [52296/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for emergency works approved to date in 2019. [52297/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is in receipt of further correspondence from a school (details supplied); and if the school will be granted additional accommodation in order that it does not have to reduce its intake significantly in 2020. [52360/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of renting and purchasing portakabins for a school (details suppled); the status of the move to a new permanent building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52371/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the delays being experienced by teachers from Northern Ireland registering with the Teaching Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52377/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (12 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding CCTV cameras in Duleek and Donore, County Meath, and the implications of a recent decision by the Data Protection Commissioner. [52366/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Services Staff (11 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: The secretaries did not leave the talks because of what the Minister has outlined. They joined the talks because they took the Minister at his word and believed him when he said that we must develop a comprehensive mechanism that would provide a pathway to a resolution. The Minister said that to me in this House, but that is not what transpired at the WRC this week. It is far from it, and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Services Staff (11 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: They represent the Minister.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Services Staff (11 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister offered 1.5%, nobody else.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Services Staff (11 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister is the Department.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Services Staff (11 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: As the Minister knows well, having spoken on the issue on several occasions while in office and previously, secretaries employed directly by the Department of Education and Skills can earn double or even triple the wages of those employed directly by schools, as well as enjoying far better terms and conditions. Indeed, the Minister previously gave full commitments to a very good campaign on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach did as well.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (11 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the recent large-scale boil water notice that affected over 600,000 residents in counties Meath, Kildare and Dublin; the measures undertaken to prevent such an occurrence again; the steps taken to ensure that residents have a clean, safe and reliable water supply; and if the EPA recommendations have been acted...