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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Thomas Byrne: I have loads of questions. Unfortunately, they are not all related to the subject matter of the Supplementary Estimate. The pension issue arises year in, year out. It is no joke - it is a significant amount of money. We receive assurances every year that it will be sorted by the following year, but that has not come to pass. The Department does not seem to be able to deal with the...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Thomas Byrne: In the next round.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Thomas Byrne: May I ask a supplementary question?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Thomas Byrne: The one thing that strikes me on looking at the figures for superannuation for teachers and non-teaching staff is that the number was estimated at 2,092 but originally it was 773. The number has almost increased threefold. For university and IT staff, it was estimated at 76 but it is expected to be 219. That is nearly three times the estimated number. The Minister cannot tell me it is a...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Thomas Byrne: I thought we were on that when I asked the question. I mentioned it the last time. The same issue applies.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Thomas Byrne: Are there any sectors in ITs or universities where this is a problem or is it across the board? Has the Minister noticed particular ITs or universities where there is a problem?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Thomas Byrne: I mentioned it previously.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) Thomas Byrne: Did the Minister answer the question?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Select Committee (4 Dec 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Are we still in public session?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Select Committee (4 Dec 2018)
Thomas Byrne: When we discussed this privately, it received support across the board. I intend to seek stakeholder engagement or pre-legislative scrutiny on the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018, which is currently going through the Seanad, when it comes to the Dáil. There are certain issues that need to be teased out and considered and we, as a...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Select Committee (4 Dec 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I will do whatever is required.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Select Committee (4 Dec 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I hope the Minister will support that.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (4 Dec 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an assessment of needs for a special needs assistant will be carried out on a person (details supplied). [50129/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Review (4 Dec 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of the review of DEIS under way as mentioned by him in Dáil Éireann on 28 November 2018. [50491/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (4 Dec 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 541. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will be supplied to an area (details supplied). [50077/18]
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 5 o’clock This issue has been rehearsed by the people. I was on the other side of the debate but I said that I would accept the views of the people and if any of the Deputies putting these amendments forward look at the exit polls, they will see that a tiny proportion of the people said they would not accept the results of the referendum. The Deputy should bear in mind that as...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Thomas Byrne: -----and I am confident that it is not provided for in the Bill. For those who are trying to sow confusion on this issue, it is downright disgraceful. It is certainly not an issue I brought up during the referendum because I did not feel there was anything to go on.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Deputy Kelleher summed it up perfectly. This section was front and centre of the entire debate. The 12-week period was front and centre and whether one liked it or not, that is what one was voting on. These issues were unbelievably well rehearsed during the referendum and arguments were made for and against. The comfort I take is from Deputy Kelleher who I understand formulated the...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Thomas Byrne: He has stood over attacking the media about Máiría Cahill and he has stood over the issue in relation to Jean McConville.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Thomas Byrne: He has then come in here, obsessed with this issue, and added nothing to the debate.