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Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I thank the Minister for his presentation of the Revised Estimate. It is more than just an engagement between Government and Opposition. It is an important constitutional function of the Minister and the Government to present the Revised Estimate to the Dáil and for the Dáil to consider it, as we are doing. It is very important that we take this role seriously, particularly in a...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: It is €1.2 million in the email the president of a particular university sent. He may have got it wrong, but I am reading directly from a letter. The last time I checked no legislation had been passed by the House on technological universities, but the Minister is spending money on this and the HEA is announcing funding for the project. We have not passed the legislation and the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (21 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 25. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the future of Gormanston Camp in County Meath. [16861/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (21 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with special needs in mainstream classes at primary and post-primary level in the school years 2014/2015 and 2015/2016, in tabular form. [16994/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (21 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications from schools he received for special educational needs posts in 2016 and the number of applications by county. [17019/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (21 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 292. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) was awarded the jobseeker's allowance from December 2015, rather than the date of application, which was September 2015. [16909/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Social Enterprise Sector (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 205. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding options available to an existing social enterprise to expand their business. [17407/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 211. To ask the Minister for Health the current arrangement for the dispatch of ambulances to the coastal area of east Meath, including the part of County Meath that is in Drogheda, in situations of emergency. [17345/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 263. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a proposed wind farm development which has been refused a grant of planning permission can qualify for the REFIT 2 scheme in respect of a new planning application yet to be lodged, if the previous refused application for planning was lodged before the deadline of December 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 279. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a child care provider is entitled to payment from her Department for a child (details supplied). [17366/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the dispute with the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, ASTI, over the Lansdowne Road agreement; and to provide an update on the arrangements for dealing with the data protection issues that may arise if financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation is applied to ASTI members in second level schools....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: Many issues will have to be handled in the Minister's Department this week, in particular the issue of the ASTI and the Lansdowne Road agreement. There are other industrial relations issues in the Department, including other issues with the ASTI. An update to the Dáil is needed on how exactly the Minister proposes to approach what is threatened by the ASTI and what he is doing to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I am surprised that such a meeting has not taken place before now. There are difficulties on both sides and the ASTI leadership must reflect what its members have voted for and represent them but there must be value in talking and trying to resolve this because we face an administrative nightmare for the Minister and the Department. How will the Minister do this? Are we going to use the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: That is disappointing.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: The practicalities.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I agree with the Minister on one point: the ASTI should be in talks. I encourage its members to ask their leadership to go into talks. I also ask the leadership to show leadership. It is not acceptable that children may be put at risk, not simply because of the repudiation but also because of the general atmosphere that would pervade in schools come September. That is what I am mostly...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he intends to deal with the issue of discrimination on religious grounds in school admissions; and his plans to insert a provision into the forthcoming schools admission Bill to deal with this issue. [18465/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: The religious criterion for admission to schools has been a major issue for years. While the most famous example is in Dublin, I have come across it several times in Meath. We would like to know what the Minister intends to do in the Government's schools admission Bill, notwithstanding other Bills that are before us.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: Across the country, there is an increasing mismatch in patronage arrangements for national schools in particular, although it will become a more common issue for secondary schools as the years go on and as the bubble of national school students moves on. The overwhelming focus on patronage divestment during the past five years has distracted from the essential and immediately relevant...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: Does the Minister have a timeframe in mind? If Deputy Joan Burton's proposal were to succeed, or our proposal which is a variation on it, work will have to be done on catchment areas. Does the Department have administrative arrangements in place for this? This issue is rightly a political hot potato. It must be addressed and there is a responsibility on us to do so. We all see injustices...