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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase women's participation in apprenticeship programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42084/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I welcome an tAire, Deputy McHugh to his new role. It is a great honour for him to be appointed Minister for Education and Skills. I will not tackle him on the difficult issues today. He is entitled to get a bit of space to familiarise himself with the issues. I am sure that he got a ministerial brief. I would be grateful if that could be provided to members of the committee, as is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I will not ask priority question No. 1 this afternoon if the Minister is waiting for that one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Just let them teach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I was not aware of that because I had raised that before with the former Minister-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I am worried that at some point the wrong person will be allowed into a school through no one's fault and then there will be a row over why there were no guidelines on this so I am glad that has happened. That is not just for sex education but that is where it famously comes up. There are a whole range of areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: My point was that the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Gabh mo leithscéal. My point was that the schools cannot do everything and that needs to be recognised because sometimes we forget that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, said he will be looking at things afresh in his new Department. It appears the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, is looking at the former education Minister's initiatives afresh too. On Thursday, he announced he will take stock and that he felt teachers were suffering from initiative overload....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: You should.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I am horrified by the Minister's description of the problems this morning. What has been happening in our schools has put a shiver down the whole country's spine. I have a number of questions. Why are these issues arising now, more than one year after the fire safety audit was announced by the Department? Western Building Systems has stated in the media that a substantial completion...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I am sorry but Fianna Fáil does not award contracts and never has.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I asked a series of questions and I would be grateful if the Minister would answer them. I can submit them as parliamentary questions. There is the issue of Western Building Systems, WBS, which is still looking for contracts. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has a role in procurement. He has to show there are deficiencies in its work. I want the Minister for Education and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the increase in home support hours planned for County Meath in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43611/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Supply (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to make it easier for retired teachers to act as substitutes in the short-term but ensure this in no way interferes with the normal teaching labour market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43287/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to reconsider the need for a second year in Professional Masters of Education, PME, programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43288/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to ensure that teachers based in Northern Ireland can register to teach here in an efficient, economic and fair way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43289/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Supply (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to establish a body within his Department working with education partners tasked with co-ordinating policy matters concerning teacher supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43290/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a barrier to a member of a board of a community requesting the attendance records of staff; if so, the nature of the barriers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43330/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (23 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 561. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the Kildare and Edenderry bus routes which are operated by Bus Éireann; and if another service provider is due to take over the operation of these services. [43265/18]