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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (26 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: It has been advertised, but people have not been able to take up the position.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (26 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: When I sought this Topical Issue debate today I did not name any particular localities, although I did ring the Minister's office to be helpful, to name the two localities I was to talk about. Interestingly, since then, my constituency colleague, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, has issued a statement on one of them. I am glad of her interest...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (26 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children availing of home tuition grants by county in each of the years 2015 to 2018. [26941/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (26 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his recent visit and engagements in the UAE. [26967/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (26 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his recent meeting with a union (details supplied). [26968/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (26 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the NCCA will report on the updating of the sex education curriculum; and when its recommendations will be implemented. [26969/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (26 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the number of special needs assistants is being reduced in a school (details supplied). [27036/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a special classroom in being closed in a school (details supplied). [27048/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Admissions (26 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 254. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action she is taking to obtain a school place for a child (details supplied). [27023/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: If the Minister agrees, I will be happy to speak to him privately afterwards about this issue. I have only been able to get the information from a number of ETBs. Obviously, I cannot get it from the voluntary secondary school sector or the primary school sector. Studies have shown that mobile phone use in school has a negative impact through cognitive overload, increased distraction and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Establishment (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I keep raising it. I have raised it approximately 15 times.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the low completion rate of the consultation requested in circular 38/2018 in education and training board, ETB, schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26832/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: Will the Minister comment on the low uptake and compliance with the consultation required in circular 38/2018 on the use of smart devices in schools? Responding to a question I tabled earlier this year, the Minister stated he did not have the information on the implementation of this circular, and what schools have or have not implemented it. I, therefore, contacted every ETB in the country...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: The Department has not done the work on this, so I have. I asked the ETBs, and, insofar as they have responded, the picture is pretty poor. According to Longford-Westmeath ETB, approximately half the secondary schools have not undertaken the consultation. The response in the Limerick-Clare ETB was patchy, and in Waterford-Wexford it is approximately half and half, some of which have done...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Data (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the special schools which have raised the issue of insurance costs with his Department; the number of schools which have contacted his Department; the total advance capitation released to date; the increased insurance costs reported by schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26831/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Data (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: I am asking the Minister about the issue of insurance costs which, unfortunately, have threatened businesses and voluntary activity and are now threatening the system, particularly the special education system. It has been reported that 15 special needs schools have contacted the Department this year to inform it that they cannot afford to pay their insurance bills. I raised this issue last...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Data (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister will forgive me for expressing my frustration. This issue was raised by me on 12 June last year. I took it from the reply given by the then Minister, Deputy Bruton, that he was dealing with it urgently, taking steps, meeting stakeholders and doing everything possible to deal with it. One year later we find that the insurance industry is being allowed by the Government to run...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Data (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: It is shocking that we are again more than one year on discussing this issue and that when it was raised first by the National Association of Boards of Management in Special Education, NABMSE, and other organisations, it was not dealt with as a matter of urgency. There is another issue for the schools attached to organisations under section 38 of the Health Act. There was supposed to be a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs Data (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: A year later.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Thomas Byrne: The Government did that anyway.