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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address concerns of school principals that they have not been provided with enough information on the way the allocations of resource and learning support teaching will be allocated for the 2017-18 school term; and if he will further address concerns that schools that experience a rise in identified special needs in 2017 and 2018...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (1 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 252. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package will be put in place for a person (details supplied). [10552/17]

Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Teenagers face tremendous pressures as they grow up, in the form of the traditional pressures we all faced adapting to adulthood and exams and the modern day pressure of social media. One of the resources children traditionally had at school was guidance counselling. Mental health issues, self-harm and suicide attempts have all increased in recent years. Guidance counselling was introduced...

Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Unfortunately, as both the Minister and I know, the issue here is the provision of guidance counselling on an ex-quota basis. The Minister's circulars avoid that issue and say the contrary. We both know about the pressures from certain bodies within the educational sector which are opposed to the provision of guidance counselling on an ex-quota basis. They have got to the Department....

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The programme for Government and the confidence and supply arrangement include provision for the Government to take action on spiralling costs for families, including in respect of energy, child care, housing and insurance. The consumer price index suggests prices have not changed much. Indeed, if one did not dig deeper into the basic inflation rate figure, it would be very welcome. The...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “That” and substitute the following:“Dáil Éireann resolves that the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016 be deemed to be read a second time this day eight months, to allow for scrutiny between now and then by the Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills and for the Committee to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Bodies (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department entered into discussions with the EU with regard to the relocation of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11092/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Secondment (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondments which have exceeded five years in the period July 2009 to October 2014, inclusive; the length of time for which the five years was exceeded; and the number of secondments refused or terminated in this period on the grounds that the secondment exceeded five years. [11122/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research Funding (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 356. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to put in place another five year cycle of the PRTLI for the period 2018 to 2022; her views on whether the €10 million allocation to the PRTLI in 2017 is sufficient to support research in universities and institutes of technology under the programme, in view of the fact that this amounts to just 17% of the 2011...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Registration (7 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for land registry by a person (details supplied). [11348/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (7 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the funding available for special units in terms of sensory needs and occupational therapist needs, including soft padding and soft toys for special needs children. [11584/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (7 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the specific training teachers in special needs units are required to have to teach. [11585/17]

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I move:That Dáil Éireann:recognises that:— the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) is drastically understaffed, with 95,543 primary and post-primary pupils across 397 schools without access to an assigned NEPS psychologist; — even for schools that do officially have an assigned NEPS psychologist, access to a psychological assessment for a developmental...

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leis na Teachtaí Dála go léir a thug tacaíocht don rún seo. Tá súil agam go lonraíonn sé seo solas ar an bhfadhb an-ghéar atá againn maidir leis an tseirbhís shíceolaíoch atá againn agus na tacaíochtaí atá ar fáil do pháistí sna scoileanna....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a shortage in the availability of the trade of shuttering carpenters here at present. [12285/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are exemptions for persons employed on community employment schemes to remain on these schemes after their term has ended. [12261/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of an application for an employment permit by a person (details supplied). [12312/17]

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: We should definitely phase it out.

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Recently, in accordance with the confidence and supply agreement, there was a circular issued to schools in regard to guidance counselling. There has been a lot of worry in schools that this circular did not ring-fence guidance counselling. The Taoiseach provided a note to my leader, Deputy Micheál Martin, which made clear that the guidance provision was ex quota but that has not been...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance if diagnosed severe autism will be included on the criteria for a primary medical certificate. [12966/17]