Results 6,441-6,460 of 9,832 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach should rethink that one.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach's constituency got looked after.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: There is no connection to Blanchardstown. Mine have to connect.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: It is not in my constituency, which needs it.
- Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I acknowledge the amendments which have improved the version that the Minister put forward, on foot of our request that these provisions be inserted in the Bill to ensure that special classes can be formed in schools where there is an identified need. Senator Kelleher, together with my colleague, Senator Gallagher and others made significant amendments to change it slightly and improve it....
- Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le gach páirtí sa Teach agus leis na heagraíochtaí Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta, go háirithe Conradh na Gaeilge agus Cearta Oideachais, a rinne sár-obair le chéile chun próiseas iontrála nua do lucht na Gaeilge, na Gaelscoileanna agus na Gaelcholáistí a chur le chéile. Measaim go bhfuil...
- Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I also pay tribute to all those involved in the passage of this legislation. In fact, my only complaint, to which the Minister did allude, is that it has taken so long to get it through. It has been knocking around for years. It is one year since the leader of my party offered it as one of five Bills that could be progressed quickly. I think we have got two of them through. Both were in...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason parents in Duleek, County Meath are excluded from the patronage competition for a new secondary school in areas (details supplied). [30525/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the townlands and district electoral divisions included in each of the school planning areas in which a second-level school patronage competition is under way. [30526/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position with regard to the completion of two new secondary schools in Maynooth. [30527/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of departmental circulars issued in respect of primary schools, their staff or management in each of the years 2000 to 2017. [30528/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of departmental circulars issued in respect of voluntary post primary schools, their staff or management in total in each of the years 2000 to 2017. [30529/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of departmental circulars issued in respect of post-primary schools, the education and training board, ETB, sector, their staff or management in each of the years 2000 to 2017. [30530/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of departmental circulars issued in respect of community and comprehensive schools, their staff or management in each of the years 2000 to 2017. [30531/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Spent Convictions (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances under which convictions become spent and will not appear in a Garda clearance. [30782/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 540. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [30318/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 811. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason transport coordination units must be tendered for. [30722/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I am okay for the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: That is practically everything.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Any criticism I make is of the Minister, not of the officials. This is a crisis that is not being dealt with at present with any sense of urgency or any sense of purpose by the Minister for Education and Skills. The officials should bring that message back to him. There are a number of easy things that the Minister could do. He could fight to restore pay equality. Young teachers have an...