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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Which Deputy sent the tweet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I would like to find out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: In 2010, a design team was appointed to Mr. Burke's school. Many of the schools in his area, in the two neighbouring parishes, the coastal area and Duleek, were at similar stages. Can Mr. Burke offer any explanation? Is there any other explanation as to why his school has been left out and everyone else has been sorted out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I want to ask the fundamental question about the three schools. What is the current position? They have acknowledged communications, but most schools would overlook all of the past problems if they could get reliable information on when their projects would go ahead. I have a number of other questions. I ask one of the delegates to describe the geographic information system in more detail....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We want answers. We were given a spiel there but we want answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I accept that. Drogheda is a reasonable school planning area. However, the Department announced a school for Drogheda-Laytown. Can the Department say where that school will be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Is the Department considering Duleek?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I discussed this issue with the witness last year, so I am welcoming it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Is the witness aware that one of the principals there had serious concerns, which were relayed to another official in the Department, about next September?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Is the witness saying the Department could possibly revise this to include Ashbourne if necessary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: This relates to what the witness mentioned about housing. Is the system missing housing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Is the witness confident of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: A huge amount of housing has been built in Ashbourne in the last few years, including family homes and starter homes. It is the same in Dunshaughlin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: There is nothing in LIHAF. LIHAF was not applicable in those areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Is the witness confident that the system would have picked up all of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Incidentally, it is not just the junior infants. I have a general concern as well. I am sorry for hogging the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: People who are moving into a four bedroom detached house are likely to have children who are already at school so they want them to get into fourth class or first year, for example. That appears to be a major problem in various towns such as Ashbourne and Dunshaughlin at present.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The witness has raised another point. I never dealt with Tusla or that side of education until last year in Ashbourne. I never had cause to do so, but now I have. How often does the Department meet Tusla? I worry that the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and Tusla are on another side with information about children who are not able to get into school. In some areas, and I will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: If I may take the liberty as Acting Chairman to interrupt the witness, it has been pointed out to me and it is a reasonable criticism that despite what Mr. Loftus said, it is not easier to look at what is on the website. Nobody knows what stage 1 or stage 2b is. Nobody knows what these terms mean. Dáil Deputies might possibly know but I would say a lot of them do not. Deputy Lahart...