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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I am certainly not late to this issue. On one day in recent months my office handled 17 separate complaints, including one from an individual from an estate within walking distance of the Minister's office who was not able to get any satisfaction from that office. Another case the Minister describes as a party is that of a lady with breast cancer who initially came to me through a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: My colleague, Deputy O'Dea, tells me that it is not correct that all GPs have signed up. In fact more than 70% of GPs have confirmed that they are still using the old form. As recently as yesterday we were on to the Department about a constituent who religiously and routinely sends in her certificates weekly but who has been deprived of payment. We do not want apologies. We have heard the...

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

Thomas Byrne: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a new primary school in Ashbourne, County Meath. [53526/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy Staff (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of speech therapists appointed by his Department in 2018 as part of its demonstration project. [53780/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Data (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new and renewed SUSI applications received, respectively; the number granted in part and granted in full, respectively; the number of appeals made to unsuccessful applications; and the number of appeals granted for the academic year 2018-19 to the end of November 2018, by county in tabular form. [54016/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in which the need for refurbishment works has been reported or identified by his Department; the number for which refurbishment works have taken place or are planned by county to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54017/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools established in temporary accommodation and that have remained in temporary accommodation for five years or more and for which a permanent site has not been identified. [54018/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who have been assigned a school place as a result of not having secured a place in primary school before six years of age between 2011 and November 2018, by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54019/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Retirements (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to date to address errors in the estimated number of teachers retiring or leaving the system per year; the subsequent cost incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54023/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme Data (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 296. To ask the Minister for Health the number of schools in which vaccines (details supplied) have been administered to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54020/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 497. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons under 18 years of age who took part in the school completion programme by county in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54021/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the oversight provided over the administration of the urban schools meal programme and the school meals local projects scheme since 2016; the number of audits which have taken place; the number of audits in which irregularities were identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54022/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (19 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a legal query from a local authority (details supplied) leading to a delay in the operation of an affordable housing scheme in a town in conjunction with the LIHAF scheme; and the status of same. [53977/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I agree with the comments of my party colleague, Deputy Brassil, who is a pharmacist and a qualified health professional. Indeed, I am very grateful to him for the advice he has given to me on this issue. The State should be glad that parents are very concerned about a vaccine programme and want it to be made available to more children, given that have been several controversies around...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Nowhere in the Minister of State's reply, nor anywhere in the public commentary of the Minister for Health has the reason for not providing the vaccine been given. Rather, the Government is standing over what it says is the advice given to it and providing no further comment or answers. Approximately ten years ago, there was a review of patient safety in Navan hospital. Other Deputies...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when permanent buildings will be provided for schools (details supplied). [54173/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of new accommodation for a school (details supplied). [54174/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, special classes in County Meath. [54535/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a town (details supplied) in County Meath does not have an ASD unit. [54536/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jan 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to deliver special classes and ASD units in the schools to be newly opened in September 2019. [54537/18]