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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal status of diocesan panels in respect of teacher employment; if reviews of same have taken place; and his plans for reform. [33535/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children whose parents have been forced to decline an early intervention class due to the distance from home involved. [33536/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Districts (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each district in the Meath Garda Division. [33534/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 265. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied) [33137/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 271. To ask the Minister for Health when a psychological and needs assessment will be carried out on a person (details supplied). [33151/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 362. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when broadband services will be available under national broadband scheme at Sarsfieldstown, Julianstown, County Meath. [33177/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Management Regulations (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 377. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the regulation in place to allow a waste company impose a fine for waste incorrectly placed in the wrong coloured bin. [33532/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Management Regulations (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 376. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the waste which can lawfully be disposed of in a black bin, a green bin and a brown bin, respectively. [33531/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 401. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for a discount on the toll for multiple or frequent commuter toll use on the M3; and if motorway tolls can be incorporated into the Leap card system. [33533/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Funding (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 70. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether the lack of a multi-annual commitment to the PRTLI by her Department retards its ability to attract matching funding from private sector or EU sources. [34335/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Planning Issues (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether amendments are required to the planning legislation to enable schools, in conjunction with local planning authorities, to introduce no fry zones or healthy eating zones in the vicinity of their schools; and his views on no fry zones around schools. [34326/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Healthy Living Strategies (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether food high in fat, sugar and salt should be removed from vending machines in schools; if his attention has been drawn to the percentage of schools that have vending machines in their schools; and his further views on whether schools are using these machines to make up for shortfalls in their budgets as a result of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Healthy Living Strategies (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to put in place a national catering standard for secondary schools to provide healthy eating in school cafeterias. [34328/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is not acceptable that in 40% of schools there is no access to free drinking water; his further views on whether there should be access to free drinking water in all schools; and the estimated amount of investment required to ensure access to free drinking water in all schools. [34329/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Digital Strategy for Schools (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's expenditure on ICT in schools in each of the years 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [34330/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully restoring the ex-quota guidance counsellor provision in budget 2018. [34331/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of its total allocation under the Capital Investment Plan 2016 to 2021 his Department has spent to date; and the projects on which the capital investment has been made. [34332/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Funding (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount of routine or steady State capital investment that is estimated to be required at each institute of technology from 2018 to 2021. [34333/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated from his Department to the programme for research in third level institutions in 2016-2017 and 2017-2018; the estimated amount of matching funding from either private sector sources or other State or EU sources the funding has attracted since 2012 and specifically, in 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. [34334/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio at primary level by one point in budget 2018. [34492/17]