Results 5,861-5,880 of 9,832 for speaker:Thomas Byrne

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Tusla staff believe they are not listened to in the Department.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the levels of access to broadband in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5090/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: This is a very important question concerning the issue of access to broadband in schools. There is a real technological divide between schools happening at the moment. In many cases it is an urban-rural divide, and in some cases it is putting the future of rural schools at risk because they do not have access to broadband. Ludicrous situations are arising, as is also the case for many...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: There is much talk about plans but it worries me that the planning appears to be centred on Eir and Eir's strategy for the next year. Eir has a strategy for its own rural network and, before yesterday, apparently had a strategy for the rest of the rural network. I posted on Facebook yesterday, for my constituents, that Eir had pulled out of the national broadband plan. I view that as a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: The lack of broadband in rural schools is as big a threat to those schools as depopulation in some parts of the country and the cut to the pupil-teacher ratio for small schools that was introduced by the former Minister, Ruairí Quinn. That is the truth. Parents will look askance at schools that cannot provide the full educational experience to their students. As I said previously, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Availability (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to improve the regional distribution of PLC, post-leaving certificate, courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4685/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that schools infrastructure planning is keeping pace with demographic changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4686/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the State Examinations Commission annual deficit tripling during 2017 to more than €2.2 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4689/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the transparency of the school selection process for the DEIS scheme will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4688/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to bring forward new proposals to ensure greater access to broadband in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4687/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 331. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting time to process a carer's benefit application; and if she is satisfied with the level of staffing in the carer's benefit department. [5119/18]

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: He has nothing to do.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: That Department has no function.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Yes, they are just thriving.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Very small.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Is the Taoiseach joking?

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: That is a few years back.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: It has not had any effect in those few years.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: This is unprecedented.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Give answers.