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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the rule book of every Revenue Commissioner staff pension scheme commenced in the 1970s and 1980s which would affect staff currently retiring. [13529/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of all forms the Revenue Commissioners used in the 1970s and 1980s providing for opt in and opt out in respect of spouse and child pension provision for staff members. [13554/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of staff members in the Revenue Commissioners that have opted out of spouse and child pension provision. [13555/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an assessment by a child psychologist of the National Educational Psychological Service will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied). [12874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review on Caranua; and the expected date of completion for the report. [12896/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for refusal of a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied). [13051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the position of the DEIS programme in view of recent errors being discovered in the DEIS list. [13897/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the recently-discovered error with the DEIS list was first discovered. [13898/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to make further revisions to the DEIS list. [13899/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the revised methodology he is using to assess schools to enter the DEIS scheme; and the way it differs from the original methodology. [13900/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 642. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is standard practice for a private consultant to be used to recruit for non-commercial State employment vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14261/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been approved home help or a home support package but who are currently on a waiting list to receive either due to a lack of available staff, by county. [12948/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if it is standard practice for a private consultant to be used to recruit for non-commercial State employment vacancies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14262/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I want to remind Members and witnesses to please an féidir libh bhur teileafóin a mhúchadh. Turn off your telephones or switch them to flight mode. Any statement you make might not be audible on the television, and we would hate for that to happen. Mobile phones interfere with the sound system and make it difficult for parliamentary reporters, who work so hard to report the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Go raibh maith agat. The TUI's views were very clearly expressed. As we have a busy meeting, I ask all speakers to keep to the allotted time as far as possible. I call Ms Jane Hayes-Nally of the Irish Second-Level Students Union.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am not going to stop Ms Hayes-Nally but I have been more lenient to her than her teacher colleagues so if she could summarise the rest, I would appreciate it as we are under huge time pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Thank you. The full submission will be put on the committee's website and will be taken into account by committee members. I will call on Mr. Paul Rolston to speak next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: We are here as long as it takes but unfortunately a lot of other speakers have to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I ask the witness to sum up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I thank Mr. Boyle. I will now invite members to ask questions. Although I cannot tell members what to say or do, we should remember that the purpose of the meeting is to elicit information and clarify what has been said already. The witnesses have presented very clearly.