Results 2,321-2,340 of 3,871 for speaker:Catherine Byrne
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: I apologise for labouring the point. Was the €35.5 million for primary and post-primary schools?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: It was not spent.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: The national school in my local area is in a DEIS programme. The school has had five or six prefabs for the past eight to ten years. It has been told it will not be allocated money for a new building for up to the next eight years. However, it was told in the previous week that planning permission would be going up to indicate that the building to proceed. I recognise the Minister cannot...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: This is the first big meeting I have attended and I am trying to catch up. It was noted that 430 more teachers have decided to retire than was originally estimated. The Minister said that teachers can retire at any age between 50 and 65 and that only 10% of teachers retire on age grounds. I apologise if this question sounds stupid, but is there any deadline for teacher retirements? Must...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: Is there a particular time of year when teachers must retire, or can it occur at any point?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: I am still trying to fill in gaps, because this is my first time in such a committee meeting. How are teachers replaced when they retire? The Chair raised this question. Are contract teachers used to replace retiring teachers?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: Going back two or three years, I saw teachers retire from schools in my locality only to return on a contract basis. Does this still happen?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: Does it still happen?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: Is the Minister referring to retired teachers?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: I have seen it in local schools and I know it happened in the past.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014) Catherine Byrne: I thank the Minister for being here and welcome the establishment of the commission. As others have said, I hope people will be treated in a fair manner. We all recognise that awful things were done in the past but it is never too late to rectify matters.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)
Catherine Byrne: Deputy Mathews's time is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Best Practice Access Guidelines: Irish Wheelchair Association (4 Dec 2014)
Catherine Byrne: I was listening to the presentation in my office. A number of years ago I was involved in a local school that ran a very interesting project during transition year. A number of students came up with the idea of borrowing wheelchairs and spending a day or two in them. This initiative made all of us, not just the young people, feel how it would affect an individual to be in a wheelchair...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Deep Brain Tissue Treatment: Health Service Executive (4 Dec 2014)
Catherine Byrne: I will be brief because Senator Colm Burke covered one or two of the points I wished to raise. When I was growing up, I regarded Parkinson's disease as an older person's disease. The first time I really understood it was when a good friend of mine got it at a very young age. The world opened its eyes to the disease when actor Michael J. Fox got it. It was driven home to many young people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Deep Brain Tissue Treatment: Health Service Executive (4 Dec 2014)
Catherine Byrne: I remind members, witnesses and people in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting of the proceedings. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if witnesses are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence on a particular...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV in Ireland: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)
Catherine Byrne: Mr. Goulding may have misunderstood what I said. I stated that I believe young people are better educated and there are more young people in school than ever was the case previously. My point was that I could not understand why this was happening, but obviously the reason is the system in school does not work. I have raised the programme that is being run in schools at this joint...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV in Ireland: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)
Catherine Byrne: I apologise for my late attendance, but I was listening to the discussion on the monitor in my office. I was once asked what was my favourite film, to which I replied without hesitation "Philadelphia" which starred Tom Hanks. It was the first film I had seen that dealt with the issue of AIDS. It brought home to me the reality of the rejection of people not alone in their employment but...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Catherine Byrne: They have never been the law and never will be.
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Catherine Byrne: There is one law enforcement body in this country and that is the Garda Síochána. It is about time that the Deputy learned that. Apart from his militant views, talking about battles, wars, grenades and explosions, he should have taken a little time to think about the audience sitting in the Public Gallery, including the young people who come to hear proper debates without having...
- Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)
Catherine Byrne: I want to talk about the mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, children and grandchildren.