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

Thomas Byrne: I raise this question in relation to the scandalous recent and ongoing delays in illness benefit payments. The introduction of the new IT system platform launched in the summer was very poorly handled. Constituents cannot understand how the most vulnerable citizens, those who are working and have had to leave employment because of serious illness, are left in a completely penurious state....

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

Thomas Byrne: It is an outrageous statement that I am late to the party.

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

Thomas Byrne: This is no party for my constituents. I have been in touch with the Minister's office over this. It is not a party.

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

Thomas Byrne: We are talking about people who have cancer.

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]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (18 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to improve the provision of broadband in County Meath. [53182/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (18 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his policy on the North-South interconnector. [53183/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: North-South Interconnector (18 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 527. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the North-South interconnector. [52796/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (18 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 113. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the latest CSO labour force survey results for Waterford city and region including data on unemployment participation, age, gender and hours of employment in tabular form. [52798/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy (18 Dec 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of speech therapists engaged full-time in the demonstration project on speech therapy. [52758/18]