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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address concerns that the school transport programme is not being run on an efficient basis, especially with regard to route selection criteria and the criteria for providing a service to students wishing to avail of the programme on a concessionary basis. [18280/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of the 195 Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, schools in tabular form, including the year in which the school attained DEIS status, the area in which the school is located and the specific DEIS status of the school, rural, urban band 1 or 2. [18319/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected impact of the proposed Irish National Teachers Organisation industrial action over the Droichead pilot induction programme on newly qualified teachers in special schools, special classes or special education settings; and his plans for both resolving the industrial dispute or for dealing specifically with the problem of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 268. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of defined benefit pension schemes in deficit. [18149/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Community Development Initiatives (28 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 520. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he agrees that Broomfield and District Residents Association do tremendous work in beautifying and litter prevention predominantly in the area of County Meath close to Mellifont Abbey in the context of the Ireland's Ancient East programme; and if funding is available to help such organisations. [18159/16]

Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: Underground.

Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I wish the Minister well in his new role. It is certainly an interesting brief and will attract a lot of political attention, particularly at local level. We are all in favour of green energy but the community needs to be brought along. That has not happened to date. I agree with everything Deputy Cassells said about the North–South interconnector. When this project was first...

Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I was referring to wind farms in particular.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: UK Referendum on EU Membership (30 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has undertaken any contingency planning for the effects of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union; and the areas in which this contingency planning has been undertaken and any key proposals he has formed. [19025/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Data (30 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of British and Northern Irish citizens who are registered as students in higher education institutes here; and the number of Irish students registered as third level students in both Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [19026/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has reviewed proposals in conjunction with An Garda Síochána to reform the training of new entrants to the Garda, including proposals for recruits to undertake training courses in other higher education institutions, such as universities or institutes of technology, and to share some courses, such as courses in forensics, with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding for the Skillnets programme from the national training framework in each year from 2011 to 2016 in tabular form. [19108/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of any recent studies, undertaken or commissioned by his Department, of how Ireland compares internationally on macro indicators of lifelong learning; if he will outline the results and conclusions of these studies; and his views on policies to improve lifelong learning here. [19109/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no borrowing framework in place for institutes of technologies, IoTs, as there is for universities, whereby they can borrow from private sources without explicit permission from the Higher Education Authority or his Department, given that there is no statutory distinction between IoTs and universities; and the plans he or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Data (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any Irish universities have had to place a cap on student numbers due to funding difficulties; his views on student entry caps as a means of dealing with funding shortfalls by universities; and the sanction he or the Higher Education Authority can employ to censure universities who cap student numbers on certain courses due to funding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies Data (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of all unfilled board positions in bodies under his Department's aegis; and if each of these positions is a paid or an unpaid position. [19112/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, when consulting on the technological university model and drafting the Technological University Bill, his Department had ever considered creating a comprehensive national technological university system to encompass institutes of technologies across all regions (details supplied); and the reason the technological university consortium...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Institutes of Technology (5 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 377. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason there is no borrowing framework in place for institutes of technology, as there is for universities (details supplied); if he will outline the barriers that he considers exist to putting in place such a framework to enable institutes of technology to borrow independently. [19106/16]

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: No.

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I raise the issue of public participation in the planning process. In recent years, there have been tiny social housing developments that have been the subject of objections from residents. People Before Profit tried to stop nine houses being built at Balrothery in Dublin.