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Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I propose the adjournment. I will speak on the substance of the Bill when we resume the debate.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Perhaps the Tánaiste could set out in more detail the Government's proposals for the religious criteria relating to school admissions. While the Minister for Educational and Skills, Deputy Bruton, has set out - in little detail - his preferred solution, he has said that there is a lot of work to do on the proposals with the Attorney General. What is the reality of these proposals if...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: This outrageous legislation and the outrageous unholy alliance that is coming together to pass it deserve the fullest possible debate.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: It is new new politics, where every priority of the ordinary citizens of this country is put to one side. Housing is out the door, the health service is out the door and legislation on the most significant political issue - water - is delayed again. There was no answer from the Tánaiste to a question on that subject earlier. Instead, one Minister, Deputy Shane Ross, with a bee in his...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am trying to get the Minister to his senses. He is a solicitor by profession and has generally carried out his ministerial duties with aplomb. He has been dignified but it is totally undignified for any Government of Ireland, particularly Fine Gael, to line up with Sinn Féin on the whim of one Independent Deputy to change the way our Judiciary is appointed. I urge them to stop, to...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister is laughing because he knows it is true.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: It is undignified for the Chief Justice of Ireland to sit on a committee with someone else chairing it and it is disrespectful of the way our constitutional system of checks and balances works. The Chief Justice oversees the judicial system and has one vote in the Supreme Court, with nominal charge of the system, but the Government will relegate her - it is Chief Justice Denham at the moment...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 33. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts being made to promote and attract more industry and business to the IDA site at Drogheda, County Meath. [30212/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 38. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her priorities and plans regarding jobs and investment in County Meath. [30213/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the awarding of a tender (details supplied). [30554/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has not been granted a full-time SNA when they enter secondary school; and the avenues open to their parents to seek a review of the decision. [30576/17]

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: It is a big area of the country.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The programme for Government promises to look at the whole issue of special needs education. There seems to be significant delay on the part of the Department of Education and Skills and the National Council for Special Education in allocating special needs assistants, SNAs, for next year. Already schools and parents are concerned that they do not know what is happening. I hope some...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Negotiations (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to avoid a hard border as a result of Brexit which would create an obstacle to ease of travel and business to Northern Ireland. [30567/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 20 June 2017, if it is possible to vary the rate employers pay in the national training levy to the proposed employer contribution mechanism according to the assumed benefit they derive from higher education training or alternatively to varying contributions by sector whereby employers in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 20 June 2017, if the National Training Fund Act 2000 was amended appropriately, if it would be possible to use a portion of the accumulated surplus and-or annual surplus of the NTF for capital funding in the further or higher education sectors. [30874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether it is justified to ask employers to contribute more to the NTF via the employers' levy in view of the fact that the fund already has such a large surplus which is not being used. [30876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 20 June 2017, if he will answer the original question which requested information on whether he has sought approval from EUROSTAT on whether it would be permissible under the fiscal rules to use the surplus from the National Training Fund levy for capital expenditure, which was not answered...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that in every year since its establishment except for 2012 and 2014 there was an annual surplus in the National Training Fund, including in years with very significant increases in unemployment and training needs of the population; his further views on whether the size of the accumulated surplus of the fund and the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the proposed Exchequer employer investment mechanism which would enable the NTF to be used to fund higher education institutions will require legislative amendment to the National Training Fund Act 2000. [30911/17]