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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I thank the witnesses. We shall return briefly to the members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Management and Operations of Caranua: Discussion (21 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I thank both witnesses for coming before the meeting and sharing their views on what has been an eventful year, which they probably did not expect to end as it did after they were appointed last year. It has been a useful engagement and the witnesses were able to speak generally without making specific statements. It was very helpful to the committee and other members have said this also....

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: It is on the record.

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “educational policy development”:"— set out how the recommendations of the Comprehensive Review of the Special Needs Assistant Scheme, recently published by the National Council for Special Education, are to be implemented." I welcome the Rural Independent Group's motion, which I support in its entirety. For the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected numbers of students studying physical education at leaving certificate level from September 2018; and his plans to add additional schools to the short list of those schools implementing the subject. [27663/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be provided with a full-time special needs assistant in September 2018. [27764/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the list of schools that will be implementing computer science at leaving certificate level in 2020 will be announced; and if new applications will be accepted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27915/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the list of schools that will begin implementing physical education at leaving certificate level in 2020 will be published. [27916/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the list of schools that will implement politics and society at leaving certificate level in 2020 will be announced; if new applications will be accepted; and if new schools have been admitted to provide the subject since it was first commenced in September 2017. [27917/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria required and the process of application for a stamp 4 immigration permission. [27504/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date upon which the four-year rule with respect to the back-to-work enterprise allowance was reduced to two years; and the instrument used to effect this change. [27597/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a matter (details supplied) regarding the local government boundary review will be clarified. [27485/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Advanced Skills Teachers and Special Classes in Mainstream Schools: Discussion (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: As you know, the meeting on Seanad reform is at 5 p.m. and, as we are both members of that committee, one of us has to go, and that is me today. Please accept my apologies that I have to leave to go to that meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Advanced Skills Teachers and Special Classes in Mainstream Schools: Discussion (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I have listened to Mr. Curtis. There is nobody else here from the second level sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Advanced Skills Teachers and Special Classes in Mainstream Schools: Discussion (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: The interference is not being caused by my mobile phone. Ms Corr is here, but some of this issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Advanced Skills Teachers and Special Classes in Mainstream Schools: Discussion (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: My phone is off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Advanced Skills Teachers and Special Classes in Mainstream Schools: Discussion (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: We have been doing a lot of work to try to make sure there are special classes across a range of subjects and disabilities. I am not simply talking about ASD classes, even though they are important. As Ms Corr mentioned, this is not just about ASD classes. As part of the confidence and supply agreement, Fianna Fáil asked for legislation to ensure classes would be provided. Mr. Curtis...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Advanced Skills Teachers and Special Classes in Mainstream Schools: Discussion (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: It might have been, if it has a phone connection. My iPad does not have such a connection.

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I sincerely thank my colleague, Deputy Jim O'Callaghan, for bringing this Bill forward. It would be the fulfilment of the wishes of the people in a referendum held in the aftermath of the murder of Veronica Guerin. We need to get tough on crime and on criminals. The Department of Justice and Equality and the Government is not doing a sufficient job. It is not remotely interested in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (27 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 185. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a CAMHS appointment. [28149/18]