Results 5,341-5,360 of 9,827 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I accept what the Minister has said about my amendment. Why is the personal public service number required for sharing? Is that absolutely necessary? People are fairly protective of their PPS numbers. Is it really necessary for schools to have that on this type of local admissions process?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: The amendment is about the board providing information to another board or to a patron.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Whatever about the Department needing it, does the other board or patron need the PPS number? If it was not absolutely necessary, I would recommend not doing it. This has been a huge issue in the past.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It is not a question of the Department managing it. When the Department started taking up this, many people were giving out. Now the Minister is proposing that local school boards might share it.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I will support it, but only if it is absolutely necessary. The Minister has not convinced me.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Will the Minister withdraw the amendment and then bring it back on Report Stage? If he can make the case that it is essential, I have no difficulty, but I do not think-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I will put down an amendment to delete that on Report Stage and I will wait to hear what the Minister says then.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I am not pressing my amendment No. 122 but I support the Sinn Féin amendment No. 96.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I have to give out and I do not wish to take this out on Deputy Nolan. This is typical of Sinn Féin to go too far with Irish language requirements and start annoying people about it. We should be trying to stop that. Tá grá agam don Ghaeilge agus is breá liom a bheith á labhairt agus á cur chun cinn. However, in this amendment, Sinn Féin is requiring...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It is the same as the previous amendment that required everyone in the agency to speak Irish at all times and that translation facilities should not be provided. That is going too far. That would damage the language. That is why I have voted against the Irish language amendments. I have huge respect for the language and I try to speak it as often as I can. These amendments go too far and...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: He did not legislate to force people to speak Irish.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Obviously.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Labraim níos mó Gaeilge ná beagnach aon duine sa Teach seo.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Tá an tuairim agam nach ceart-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: Má bhíonn dlí againn sa tír seo ag rá go gcaithfidh daoine obair a dhéanamh trí Ghaeilge, beidh sé mícheart agus déanfaidh sé damáiste don Ghaeilge. Tá sé ag dul ró-fhada sa treo sin agus ní haontaím leis ar chor ar bith. Níor chuir Éamon de Valera aon dualgas ar éinne an Ghaeilge a labhairt,...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: I want to say one thing before I propose the adjournment. How dare Fine Gael line up with Sinn Féin to transform radically our Judiciary?
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: It is an absolute outrage. How dare Sinn Féin-----
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: -----give its unqualified support to the most controversial legislation?
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: At least when we facilitate this Government, we do so on the basis of achieving something for our voters. Sinn Féin has given unqualified support to the Bill, and Fine Gael is disgracefully lining up with Sinn Féin on it. It is absolutely outrageous. They are bringing the whole system of administration of justice into disrepute.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)
Thomas Byrne: That is what this unholy alliance will do.