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Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I acknowledge that school building is taking place. I suppose it is a long time since the Department was not building schools in some part of the country. My children's school is the subject of major capital works and we are very pleased about that. However, building has stalled in the case of some schools for reasons that are unfathomable in many cases and this is wrong. What happens is...

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Is the rising cost in the building sector in general a concern to the Minister? Does he need to alert his Government colleagues about that in terms of funding? Will it impact on the number of schools to be built? Will schools that are on the list not get built because other projects have cost too much? One school in particular was advised by officials that the money had run out on another...

Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I welcome what the Minister of State has just said. There are also cases like this in Deputy Bobby Aylward's constituency. As the Minister of State said himself, the pass in question may be impassable for considerable periods of time. The Minister of State makes the rules and I hope he can change them following engagement with Deputy McConalogue and others. If a pass is impassable for...

Other Questions: School Transport Data (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school bus routes in operation in each of the years from 2011 to 2016; and if his Department's policy objective is to reduce the number of children availing of school transport on a concessionary basis. [1895/17]

Other Questions: School Transport Data (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The question is very simple. A number of us are trying to get to the bottom of school transport policy. It appears there has been a reduction in the number of routes and I would like the Minister of State to set out the number of bus routes operating in each of the years from 2011 to 2016.

Other Questions: School Transport Data (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Does the Minister of State have the figures without special educational needs transport provision? Has there been a reduction if special educational needs transport is not included?

Other Questions: School Transport Data (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: That is fine.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the disparity between primary and secondary level education in the number of school places for children with autism; and the measures his Department is taking to improve access to appropriate places in mainstream secondary schools for children with autism. [1896/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the length of time it takes for children to be publicly assessed by the National Educational Psychological Service; his further views on whether these waiting times are acceptable; and the measures his Department is taking to improve access to psychological assessment for school children. [1897/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for developing apprenticeship opportunities for persons with disabilities. [1898/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Fund for Strategic Infrastructure (24 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the potential investment projects his Department put forward to the Department of Finance task force report for the European Fund for Strategic Investment. [2676/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (24 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 433. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients of the neurology department in Beaumont Hospital have had appointments cancelled without advance notice, resulting in patients presenting for appointments and being sent home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2672/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [3302/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (25 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 215. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of needs will be carried out on a person (details supplied). [3358/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: What impact, if any, will the discussions today and over recent weeks have on the school transport programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Separate to industrial action, would the financial problems in Bus Éireann have an impact on the school bus transport service or would the company seek to renegotiate the contract with the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: There might be an effect on school services.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: What about the fund-raisers?

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Trump went to the Sinn Féin fund-raiser.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Sinn Féin should send it back to Trump.