Results 4,721-4,740 of 9,824 for speaker:Thomas Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (17 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 812. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for an occupational therapist for a person (details supplied). [41053/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (17 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a psychologist for a person (details supplied). [41054/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sex Offenders Treatment Programme (17 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 823. To ask the Minister for Health if a residential care home or any of its community-based facilities (details supplied) are being used as rehabilitation centres or long-term accommodation for sex offenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41099/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (17 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 826. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for speech therapy for a person (details supplied). [41106/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (17 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 961. To ask the Minister for Health when home support hours will be reinstated to families in County Meath following industrial action by a care service (details supplied). [41396/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (17 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 964. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for a consultation in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan will take place for a person (details supplied). [41409/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (17 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1284. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacant position of home support provider to the County Meath disability home support service will be filled following a company (details supplied) ceasing the service in this area. [1549/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (17 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1391. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for a Scottish derogation for a person (details supplied). [41616/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Deputy certainly looked after Wexford.

Priority Questions: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, programme; if he will put in place the measures suggested by the ESRI review of the programme, namely to taper funding and enhance supports for urban DEIS schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2011/17]

Priority Questions: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The question relates to the DEIS programme. The issue with the programme is that it has not really been expanded at all since it was established by the Fianna Fáil Government in 2006, with no new schools admitted to it since 2009. The Minister has been telling us there is a review of the programme under way. We had expected an announcement before Christmas on the programme's...

Priority Questions: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I welcome the Minister's commitment to putting a new or expanded scheme in place in September but all the while he is perpetuating socio-economic gaps in educational outcomes by maintaining the cap. In recent years, there have been schools that simply could not participate in the programme. Students are losing out as a consequence. It is a deliberate policy. How long does it take to put a...

Priority Questions: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I said that.

Priority Questions: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Can the Minister outline to the House the number of schools the funding is expected to cover? Can he guarantee that schools that have the resources at present will not lose them as part of the review?

Priority Questions: School Curriculum (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the implementation of the new coding curriculum in schools; the reason for the delayed roll-out of the new coding courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2012/17]

Priority Questions: School Curriculum (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: This relates to the short coding courses at primary and secondary levels. What is the Minister's vision for putting coding on the school curriculum? It has become a buzzword in some circles. What does the Minister mean by it, what impact will it have on the curriculum and what will children actually learn?

Priority Questions: School Curriculum (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: There does not seem to be a vision for this. Computer science will be rolled out at leaving certificate level in approximately three years' time, but the short courses at junior certificate level are almost non-existent. Twenty-two schools will run them next year. To my knowledge, they will not be ASTI schools, given the industrial action. For this reason and because the Department will...

Priority Questions: School Curriculum (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The difficulty, not just with the educational agenda, but also with the skills agenda, is that each country appears to be pulling down the shutters. Consider Brexit and Trump. Everyone is looking after himself or herself and we are falling behind. The situation requires urgency and I encourage the Minister strongly. We should not interfere in the NCCA process, which must be non-political,...

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the schools major capital works plan. [1899/17]

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am looking for a general update on the schools capital programme. A schools capital programme was announced in 2015 with huge fanfare. That fanfare was not the Minister's fault but it only returns capital spending to pre-2011 levels by 2019 so we have a good bit to go. What also concerns me is the cost of projects. While this had gone down during the recession, it seems that it is going...