Results 3,721-3,740 of 9,820 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I acknowledge what Mr. Loftus has said in respect of Whitecross national school in terms of the Department's plan for the start of construction. It has been at stage 2 for the best part of ten years or more so that does not really give parents any information. There was some level of detail in a previous list that is now absent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Are those projects in addition to the 341 mentioned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Holy God.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The total is 341 plus 575 plus 42 is 958.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: There are 958, so what we have been saying until now is under-selling the problem. I have looked at the Estimates for 2008 to 2009. The witness has said that there was €110 million for schools. I am looking at the national schools Estimate for 2009, which was €422 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I am in the hands of the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: May I ask for clarity on a point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The suggestion has been made by the deputy principal of Ballinteer Educate Together school that a local Deputy announced on Twitter that the school was to move to another school site. Will Mr. Loftus comment on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Would it be the Department's practice to notify an individual Deputy, in an official sense, if he or she is not a Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I am sorry for delaying the departure of the officials who have travelled all the way from Tullamore but we are under pressure to get answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The witnesses get the money from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and we do not blame the officials for a lack of funding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The Department will never get us out of Tullamore. That is the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: If the officials want to reschedule, it is very late for them. I am free after this meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: We will do that at the location we agreed.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief Eligibility (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance if first time buyers that purchased their home, paid their deposits and signed their contracts in 2008 but their first mortgage repayment was not until early 2009 ever received the increase in the tax relief at source that was introduced in Budget 2012 with regard to mortgage interest relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15327/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 280. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether there are problems with tax compliance in the farm contracting sector; and his further views on whether compliant contractors are at a disadvantage. [16759/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which an Irish citizen who has not been resident for the purpose of Irish and EU college fees for the required period of time can avail of an exception to enable them to qualify for same. [15257/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the summer works scheme for 2018. [15625/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools for which new prefab rentals were arranged during the course of 2017, in tabular form. [15818/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Apr 2018)
Thomas Byrne: 476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce an apprenticeship or traineeship in the farm contracting sector. [16753/18]