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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: There are only two of us left, so I will not delay proceedings. Have any of the five witnesses or their organisations, apart from Mr. Crosby, been contacted by the NCCA on this review of RSE? I do not need to know the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Has Dr. MacNeela?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Was that a two-way process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We will be under pressure to leave for the Dáil in the next ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: None of us might be left by then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We might be as well to conclude now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: And around the roles of men and women.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: It is, but it is not one we accept. If there is a-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Has there been good interaction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I accept and know that, but what about the engagement between USI and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment? The NCCA works at second level, while the USI is a third level body, but the two organisations know a lot about this matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Yes. The USI and NCCA are the experts that I hope are consulted.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, said he will be looking at things afresh in his new Department. It appears the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, is looking at the former education Minister's initiatives afresh too. On Thursday, he announced he will take stock and that he felt teachers were suffering from initiative overload....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the increase in home support hours planned for County Meath in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43611/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Supply (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to make it easier for retired teachers to act as substitutes in the short-term but ensure this in no way interferes with the normal teaching labour market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43287/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to reconsider the need for a second year in Professional Masters of Education, PME, programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43288/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to ensure that teachers based in Northern Ireland can register to teach here in an efficient, economic and fair way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43289/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Supply (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken to establish a body within his Department working with education partners tasked with co-ordinating policy matters concerning teacher supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43290/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a barrier to a member of a board of a community requesting the attendance records of staff; if so, the nature of the barriers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43330/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (23 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 561. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the Kildare and Edenderry bus routes which are operated by Bus Éireann; and if another service provider is due to take over the operation of these services. [43265/18]