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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: 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?

Topical Issues Debate: Public Parks Provision (6 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this important issue. It is one I raised previously when I was a Member of the Seanad and, indeed, it has been raised by many members of the local authority in County Meath, including by my colleague, Councillor Seán Smith. It is an issue related to the continuation of the good relations the community has with the Department of Education and...

Topical Issues Debate: Public Parks Provision (6 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for what he has said and the positive and constructive approach the Department has taken which I noted in my initial contribution. He believes the matter will be sorted out and has said the Department is examining various mechanisms to ensure we can have a linear park. I also understand the Department's concerns about ensuring value for money from its point of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding schemes that are available to schools and preschools that need to acquire agility and sensory play equipment for students with special education needs. [38793/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (6 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 377. To ask the Minister for Health when it is proposed to add new PKU-suitable foods to the various reimbursement schemes in view of the acute difficulties being experienced currently by those in need of them. [38784/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: My colleague Deputy Anne Rabbitte who was to take the question for my party leader has said she thinks the Pope should visit Galway. The Taoiseach might bear this in mind. Given the considerable controversy caused when the last Government shut the embassy in Vatican City, it is good that relations with the church and, in particular, the Holy See now seem to be on a better footing. We...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant Applications (7 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a payment of the water grant was not awarded to a person (details supplied). [39054/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: Bhí áthas orm éisteacht leis an mBreitheamh Mac Aonghusa agus í ag taispeáint dúinn tábhacht na Gaeilge i nGaillimh. Bhí scéalta difriúla sna meáin an tseachtain seo caite. Tá áthas orm é sin a chloisteáil. Much of what has been said speaks for itself. I wanted to ask Dr. Day something. I thank her for being here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: The witnesses have a wider perspective on Brexit than simply education, but we are the education committee. I have spoken to a number of academics privately since the referendum on Brexit and since the beginning of the current Dáil. Some of them seem to believe a land of milk and honey awaits with Brexit in that Irish universities could access research funding that otherwise would go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: If we are to maintain excellence, we need a better funded system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I thank everybody for coming here today on the case that they are making, not only today but on an ongoing basis. I agree with the comments of the other committee members that they are a credit to society, in fact, to the education system that we have at present, and of course to their families who have served them well. If, for example, we were to take as a given what Mrs. Justice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I will make some observations. A decision will not be made by this committee. Some of the previous speakers wished us well in making our decision. We will not be making the decision. We will possibly be giving recommendations but it will be for the Oireachtas as a whole and the Government to make a decision. On farmers, there is always a debate about capital assets but the truth is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: I do not have any questions but some of the comments made have raised questions with me, which I have sent on to the committee, in regard to the other experts we need to hear from arising from this discussion. For example, we probably need to hear from someone who knows the German system, and we have heard about the Australian system but we probably need to hear from someone with direct...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (13 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact distribution of increased third level funding announced in the recent budget. [40039/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Earcaíocht agus Soláthar Foirne Tríú Leibhéal (13 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil dualgas sa dlí ar Bhord Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, uachtarán a bhfuil Gaeilge líofa aici nó aige a fhostú; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [40074/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Exchange Scheme (13 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to initiate a teacher job exchange programme for permanent exchange as opposed to temporary exchange. [40114/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (13 Dec 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the pyrite remediation scheme to deal with the issue of category one homeowners and others that find themselves in limbo due to the fact they live in a pyrite estate. [40106/16]