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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: If the officials want to reschedule, it is very late for them. I am free after this meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: We will do that at the location we agreed.

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I am sharing my time with my colleagues, Deputies Fiona O'Loughlin and Declan Breathnach. We in Fianna Fáil acknowledge and support the call from the Citizens' Assembly and the Oireachtas committee on the eighth amendment for improvements in sexual health and relationship education in schools, youth clubs and other settings. Similarly, we acknowledge and support the calls from the...

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: We acknowledge there is an issue. We want to see fact-based and respect-based relationships and sexuality education in schools-----

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: -----but one cannot just up-end the entire system on which our education system is based without consulting the partners involved. I certainly hope many of them will appear before the education committee. I am sure members of Solidarity who are not members of the education committee will be able to attend its hearings and ask questions in the most thorough fashion. It is the case that...

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: There must be.

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: We can stand on our own feet and had proposed it long before the Deputies jumped on it.

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: We are approaching it in a proper way.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (18 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce the Leap card on Irish Rail in County Meath. [16843/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 15. To ask the Minister for Health the number of counselling and educational psychologists required to complete extensive in-service training in order to maintain eligibility for their own jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17031/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sites have been identified and secured and permission granted for proposed new primary schools in areas (details supplied) in tabular form. [17186/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sites have been identified and secured and permission granted for proposed new post primary schools in areas (details supplied). [17193/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of the recently announced new primary school for Dunshaughlin, County Meath; if a preferred site has been selected; and when the tendering process is likely to commence. [17344/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he plans to proceed with the patronage of the recently announced new primary school for Dunshaughlin, County Meath; and if a local survey of prospective parents will be undertaken by his Department. [17345/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (19 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location the new regional secondary school between Drogheda and Laytown school catchment areas is to be located in the context of the recent new school announcements. [17346/18]

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: It was secret information.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: It is not the issue I intend to raise but reference was made to Sherkin Island. I note that constituents in the middle of my constituency have been without a phone service since the last storm as well. I am raising the commitment in the programme for Government to make Ireland have the best education service in the world by 2026. The issue that has reared its head this week is the...

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Where is the Minister with responsibility for this matter?

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: There is not a single Fine Gael Deputy in the House.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (24 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will meet with representatives of community employment supervisors. [17867/18]