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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I will not ask priority question No. 1 this afternoon if the Minister is waiting for that one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Just let them teach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I was not aware of that because I had raised that before with the former Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I am worried that at some point the wrong person will be allowed into a school through no one's fault and then there will be a row over why there were no guidelines on this so I am glad that has happened. That is not just for sex education but that is where it famously comes up. There are a whole range of areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: My point was that the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Gabh mo leithscéal. My point was that the schools cannot do everything and that needs to be recognised because sometimes we forget that.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the impact of inflation on costs for schools in the context of a 5% increase in the capitation grant will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42087/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the announcement of 13 April 2018 regarding the establishment of 42 new schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42086/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention was drawn to the fact that UCD had changed its enrolment policy for the 2018-19 academic year; when his attention was further drawn to the fact that this would impact on the ability of students to commence their studies in this academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42083/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase women's participation in apprenticeship programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42084/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (17 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if departmental approval is required if schools wish to have early childhood education or after-school services operating independently on the school premises. [42640/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (17 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had meetings, scheduled or unscheduled, formal or informal, since the general election with a person (details supplied). [42663/18]
- Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We could have done it lots of times but we did not.
- Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Deputy Howlin should listen to the members of the Labour Party sometimes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: "Do not think."
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Is the Taoiseach not sure?
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Drainage Schemes Status (16 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has plans to carry out cleaning and dredging works on the river in Drumconrath village, County Meath. [41885/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Drainage Schemes Status (16 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 184. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has plans to carry out cleaning and dredging works on the River Borora in Moynalty village, County Meath. [41886/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the powers of special educational needs organisers, SENOs, with regard to the allocation of special needs assistant, SNA, resources; if these powers include the ability to remove resources from a school if another school has been allocated additional hours; if his Department records these reductions in resources; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (16 Oct 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to planned changes to University College Dublin's admission deadlines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41831/18]