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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications (16 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 623. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a partial capacity benefit by a person (details supplied). [42053/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: On 13 April, the Minister for Education and Skills announced that 42 new schools would be built around the country, including 17 which would be up and running by next September. We are now six months on from that announcement, and almost nothing has happened. During the summer four patronage processes for secondary schools began, but they have not been completed because we do not have the...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I am. Members are elsewhere tonight.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: The doorsteps of Ireland might be busy tonight. I do not know. I am happy to speak here about the budget but it does not hide our severe disappointment regarding education. Education is the undoubted poor relation in this budget. I was surprised to hear some Ministers saying privately yesterday that education has done great in the budget. It shows a distinct lack of understanding of...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: It will be tested on one lucky granny.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building projects for schools (details supplied). [40701/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport service will be provided for a person (details supplied). [41029/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies Funding (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 210. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of section 39 funding by county to an organisation (details supplied). [40589/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 211. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an organisation (details supplied) in respect of activities in County Meath receives no funding under section 39. [40590/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 216. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a consultation with an occupational guidance adviser further to commitments made that such a consultation would occur. [40603/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 257. To ask the Minister for Health the evidence required for the cross-border healthcare directive to prove a person is on a public waiting list here. [40765/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 260. To ask the Minister for Health when 15 hours of home support will be provided for a person (details supplied). [40778/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 283. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) was placed on the public waiting list for surgery. [40855/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41054/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Charities Regulation (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 422. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rules and guidelines for registered charity clothing bins and non-registered clothing bins in public areas. [40736/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (9 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason household income limits apply in respect of the disabled person's grant in cases in which the disabled person is an adult and has no income other than disability allowance in view of the fact that it would be cheaper for the State to adapt the family home rather than house them separately as is the case. [40608/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Many difficult questions were posed in the referendum. There were questions that I, and I suspect many other people, found difficult. One of the easiest questions that I was asked in various media interviews was whether I would accept the will of the people if this referendum was passed. That was the easiest question. Of course we would do that. That is our absolute obligation in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2018: Motion (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: We were delighted to advocate for, support and facilitate the passing of the Technological Universities Act. I particularly welcome what is happening in Dublin. There is teaching, learning and research ongoing in the Dublin Institute of Technology and the institutes of technology in Tallaght and Blanchardstown which will come together while retaining separate campuses. We offer an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2018: Motion (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: It was reported in the Irish Examiner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2018: Motion (4 Oct 2018)

Thomas Byrne: That is the wrong way around. We should be telling our universities and institutes of technology to do everything they can to house students rather than always pass the buck to other people. In this case, one could fit probably eight or ten students in that house, although that number might be a bit high.