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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: It is a cut.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: It is a cut of €15.5 million.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: It is €15.5 million less that the Department is paying to third level colleges because the National Training Fund has been increased. In fact, the purpose of that fund was to provide extra funding, not replace departmental funding.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: Is the Minister finished on that?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: I will go back to the NTF and third level funding. The Minister has taken the opportunity to cut third level funding from the Exchequer, which is unprecedented in the past number of years since the economy started to turn. It has been replaced with a NTF levy. One of the recommendations of the Cassells report is to try to get additional funding into the third level sector and training. It...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: All I know is €1.007 billion was put into third level institutions from the Department in 2018 but, for 2019, it is proposed to put in €991.926 million. A cut is a cut. Funding has been received from employers and the Department thinks it does not have to pay that amount. It is breaching the trust that employers have placed in the Department. Let us be fair as they did not...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: Indecon did not recommend that the Department should take this opportunity to cut its share of funding to third level.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: If there are no other questions on third level education, I might move to the NTF estimate of income and expenditure. I also want to ask about the national children's hospital. This will be the only Department for which a Supplementary Estimate is not required so it is only fair to ask the Minister about that transaction at this meeting. Employers were asked to contribute to the NTF at an...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: Does the Minister think that commitment will be increased or that the Department of Health or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will look for an increased commitment from the Department in the next few years?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (26 Feb 2019) Thomas Byrne: That concludes our consideration of the Revised Estimates for Public Services, Vote 26 - education and skills. I thank the Minister and his officials for their constructive and lengthy engagement at this meeting and for answering all the questions members put.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Message to Dáil (26 Feb 2019)
Thomas Byrne: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Education and Skills has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2019: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills. The select committee went into private session at 5.35 p.m. and adjourned at 5.40...
- Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)
Thomas Byrne: I wish to share time with Deputy O'Keeffe.
- Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)
Thomas Byrne: We are debating a Bill that will be crucial in the event of a no-deal Brexit. It is crucial that we deal with the issues involved. We received the Bill just last Friday, although there had been some briefings by Ministers to committees before that. In the case of education, the Bill raises more questions than it provides answers. Part 5, which deals with education, simply deals with the...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bituminous Fuel Ban (27 Feb 2019)
Thomas Byrne: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the ban on smoky coal will come into effect nationwide. [9807/19]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Thomas Byrne: A non-practising believer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach is hoping for an election.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Thomas Byrne: All the Government is good for is high vis jackets and hard hats. That is all.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)
Thomas Byrne: Hear, hear.
- Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2019)
Thomas Byrne: Tá mise agus mo pháirtí tar éis na leasuithe seo a leagan síos ionas go mbeidh cinnteacht i gceist do mhic léinn ó Tuaisceart Éireann agus ón Bhreatain i gcás na táillí a chaithfidh siad a íoc. Tá neamhchinnteacht maidir leis an gceist seo soiléir faoi láthair. Aontaím leis an Teachta Cullinane go...
- Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2019)
Thomas Byrne: Cuirim fáilte roimh an tacaíocht ón Rialtas don dá leasú atá curtha os comhair na Dála agam. Tá mé sásta go bhfuil an tAire ag rá go bhfuil siad ag teacht le polasaí an Rialtais. Ní raibh mé in ann a leithéid de ráiteas a fháil ón Aire aon uair a chuir mé ceist air. Tá mé sásta go...