Results 7,401-7,420 of 9,832 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: In effect, reduced timetables amount to a suspension and the section 29 procedures presumably apply. Can the officials address that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: I agree with Deputy Catherine Martin. This committee has uncovered an illegality that is ongoing. We need to hold further public hearings. I will be suggesting that Mr. Hislop, the chief inspector, comes in. We need to bring back Ms Mary Byrne and her colleagues as well because not only has the Department been deaf to this but it has been warned. It was specifically stated by Ms Byrne...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: What process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: I am conscious that there are only about five minutes before a vote. We do not want to keep people from that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: I do not need an answer because I think we need to follow this up ourselves. I challenge Ms Cregg on her statement that there is process. There is no process. The Minister has been very clear that reduced timetabling is not acceptable bar exceptional circumstances where medical reasons have been given. That was the example cited. It has been clarified that the only process is the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: Can they submit parts of it?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: Why is the State appealing it?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: The State is not obliged to appeal.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: Why is the State appealing the decision then?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: The State was not forced to appeal.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: I remind the Taoiseach of another industrial relations settlement from 2015. I do not know what was going on in 2015 that the Government was making settlements on industrial relations issues but this one is also coming back to bite it. At that time, the Government agreed with school secretaries and caretakers that it would come back this year to discuss their terms and conditions, which are...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Religious Persecution (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the continuing steps he is undertaking to highlight and address the persecution of Christians worldwide with particular reference to the recent Easter bombings in Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25216/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the waiting times for passport express and online passport applications; and his views on the level of staffing and resources in the passport office. [25217/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new secondary school will be provided in Dunshaughlin, County Meath, in view of recent planning decisions. [25297/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for further provision of second-level places in Ashbourne, County Meath. [25298/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electric Vehicles (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: 670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide guidelines to the planning authorities with regard to the minimum number of electric car charging points there should be in new car parking facilities seeking planning permission. [25417/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: I thank the delegates for outlining various issues relevant to the legislation which we will be considering next week on Committee Stage. There are a couple of issues on which I wish to hone in. I will ask my questions and the delegates may then respond. I will not revert to each of them. Ms Godkin stated that at one point the union was looking for a teacher protection fund similar to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: Can I follow up on that? I do not want to delay the meeting. Dr. Maguire is proposing to have an insurance policy in place but QQI, through public procurement, decides who provides it. Instead of being like motor insurance, where there is a legal requirement to have a policy of insurance, QQI is going to say there is a legal requirement to have the policy of insurance that it provides....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: New Zealand has a different insurance model anyway. I do not think one can compare New Zealand to Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)
Thomas Byrne: Does Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, employ actuaries?