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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Staff (4 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I acknowledge a little bit of progress has been made on this issue. However, many teaching principals in small schools feel they are at breaking point. The Government is very much focused on Dublin with its recent announcement on schools necessary in the growing commuting areas. It is key, however, that it remembers the thousands of small schools around the country which have teaching...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Staff (4 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: The exclusion of special education teachers when calculating teaching principals' salaries is unfair as well. The way it is set up acts as a disincentive to principals who wish to set up ASD units in their schools. It leads to a significant amount of extra management, as well as dealing with extra crises which sometimes occur with challenging behaviour from pupils in such units. A...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (4 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the expansion to primary school provision in Ashbourne, County Meath. [29342/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: University Global Rankings (4 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the decline in Irish universities’ ratings in international rankings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29339/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (4 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans announced in April 2018 to establish 42 new schools over the next four years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29341/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (4 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action being taken to avoid non-teachers being hired to correct State examinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29338/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (4 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the programme for partnership Government commitments on increasing capitation will be honoured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29340/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Recreational Facilities Provision (3 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to deliver a playground at a location (details supplied) for which planning permission already exists. [28767/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (3 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when proposals regarding nursing support for schools will be put in place in view of the advice given to him by the NCSE in early 2017 that proposals needed to be developed before a crisis develops within a school. [29022/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (3 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 483. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there will be a centralised facility for adoptees to view their files at locations where all files from adoption agencies would be available. [29023/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Administration (3 Jul 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is leniency available from penalties for persons who have inadvertently failed to pay a non-principal private dwelling charge. [29024/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (28 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 62. To ask the Minister for Health when a hub or centre will be provided for a person (details supplied) and others to access adult disability services in Dunboyne, County Meath. [28174/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (28 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 72. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether waiting lists for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and psychologists in County Meath are acceptable; if there is a shortage of professionals in these areas; and when a person (details supplied) will receive a psychological appointment. [28175/18]

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I sincerely thank my colleague, Deputy Jim O'Callaghan, for bringing this Bill forward. It would be the fulfilment of the wishes of the people in a referendum held in the aftermath of the murder of Veronica Guerin. We need to get tough on crime and on criminals. The Department of Justice and Equality and the Government is not doing a sufficient job. It is not remotely interested in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (27 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 185. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a CAMHS appointment. [28149/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (27 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment by the HSE of 19 speech and language therapists and 12 occupational therapists to work with the 150 schools and pre-schools in a pilot project in CHO 7. [28404/18]

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “educational policy development”:"— set out how the recommendations of the Comprehensive Review of the Special Needs Assistant Scheme, recently published by the National Council for Special Education, are to be implemented." I welcome the Rural Independent Group's motion, which I support in its entirety. For the...

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: It is on the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Advanced Skills Teachers and Special Classes in Mainstream Schools: Discussion (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: As you know, the meeting on Seanad reform is at 5 p.m. and, as we are both members of that committee, one of us has to go, and that is me today. Please accept my apologies that I have to leave to go to that meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Advanced Skills Teachers and Special Classes in Mainstream Schools: Discussion (26 Jun 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I have listened to Mr. Curtis. There is nobody else here from the second level sector.