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Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (4 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent of data sharing between Irish Rail and her Department on the free travel scheme and public services card. [50357/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the recent ruling of the Data Protection Commissioner on the public services card. [50358/19]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: We forced Fine Gael to change its housing policy.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Deputy Heydon did.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Not again.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Unbelievable.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Flexible Work Practices (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 93. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to promote and encourage new and developing work practices in County Meath such as working from home initiatives and working from tech hubs and hot desks. [49963/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA Ireland visits to County Meath in 2019; and the number of IDA Ireland units which are occupied and vacant in County Meath. [49964/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special classroom will open in a school (details supplied) for September 2020. [49889/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Direct Provision Data (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children who are in direct provision and emergency accommodation have access to the home tuition grant; if this could be used to provide education to children who cannot access school or education in the normal manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50224/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Direct Provision Data (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism by which children in direct provision that are also in emergency accommodation who cannot access school in the normal manner are identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50225/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Direct Provision Data (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children between 6 and 16 years of age in direct provision that are not in school or being provided an education; the number between 5 and 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50226/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Eligibility (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 318. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable that a person (details supplied) is prevented from availing of 7.5 approved hours of home help per week despite the identification of a carer available and willing to do the hours due to the June 2019 instruction to the support team that the home help cannot commence unless it is end of life situation; the reason for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (3 Dec 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an instruction issued in June 2019 to the home support team in County Meath that no home helps can be agreed unless it is an end of life circumstance; the position regarding the 450 persons on the waiting list in the county that have been fully assessed and have had their hours approved but that are not end of life cases; when the instruction...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Thomas Byrne: This morning, we learned that another development close to my constituency has been bought by a cuckoo fund. If this continues, as it has been continuing, it will mean that first-time buyers from my constituency and other areas will not be able to buy a home. Will the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government confirm to the Dáil his support for Deputy Darragh O'Brien's...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Thomas Byrne: It does not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (28 Nov 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I am trying to work out where are the four fast chargers. There is one between Ashbourne and Ratoath and there is one in Navan. I do not know whether the Minister is including the two on the M4, which are just over the border in County Kildare. Maybe the Minister could list them. I have an electric car.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (28 Nov 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Are the other two fast chargers at the Applegreen facility?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (28 Nov 2019)

Thomas Byrne: If the Minister can do so, it would be appreciated. I drive around the county. I know where they are. I use them. They are simply absent in many of the towns in my constituency of Meath East. This is a big problem. There are simple things that we could do. The Minister must do what is needed to fund them. Local authorities should not be allowing service stations to be developed...