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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 992. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package awarded to a person (details supplied) will be put in place. [16601/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (17 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 1135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether in the interests of public safety and legal compliance the business of farm and agricultural contracting should be licensed or regulated. [16750/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 1194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when Eir's broadband and landline services will be available at an address (details supplied). [16472/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (17 Apr 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 1618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will issue. [16600/18]

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take to ensure school building projects are completed on time; and if there is enough funding to complete the schools capital programme. [14452/18]

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I told the Minister at a committee meeting yesterday that he is fast becoming the Minister presiding over a collapse in the school capital programme. Whatever money was in it has been absorbed by increased building and land costs. I want to get the Minister's response to that.

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Regardless of what schools are to be built, the problem is that a huge catch up will be required in terms of the school buildings that have not yet started and those that have not been completed. The schools that are only starting to think about their requirements for a new building and which do not appear on any of the lists do not have any chance. I would add to those the schools that...

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: A pattern has developed such that if we say anything about the Government or a Department, we are accused of criticising civil servants. The Minister is the one who is held to account in this Dáil. I am holding him to account and nobody else when I ask questions in this Dáil, not civil servants. We had this with the strategic communications unit, SCU, and every time we mentioned...

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: What?

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: This is the most shocked I have been in the Dáil in many years. According to the Minister, this will expand the capacity of teachers and SNAs-----

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: ----to provide speech and language therapy and occupational therapy.

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: If we are somehow going to land teachers and SNAs with those therapist roles and train them in how to deal with issues, the Minister might as well stop this now because I imagine it will not be acceptable to the Dáil. If that is what he has in mind, it worries me greatly. I am glad that I asked this question now. Providing speech and language therapy in schools sounds fantastic in a...

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: That is actually what we thought it might be.

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when in-school speech and language therapy teams will be in place; and the nature of the service that will be provided. [14451/18]

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: The question asks that the Minister would flesh out the information on what exactly he is proposing in regard to in-school speech and language therapy. It was to be a pilot project but the language was changed subsequently to a study or a study project, which concerned people. What is the Minister's vision in this regard?

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I think the Minister has let the cat out of the bag. This is not what I had been envisaging. The Minister referred to a "demonstration project", which is certainly a change from the programme for Government. He has not said in which schools it will take place or where it will take place. Moreover, the model that seems to be envisaged is not a replacement for the health service or therapy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: The question does not require an immediate and specific response from the Minister. What I am seeking, I suppose, are sentiments, and the Minister has already expressed sentiments. I was impressed by the young ladies from St. Joseph's school in Lucan who contacted the Minister about a specific case in their area, which I do not propose to address in the Chamber. They raise the important...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I would be grateful if the Minister would consider the simple suggestion made by the young transition year students to whom I referred. Many transition year students have fantastic ideas such as this one, which would simply require the Minister to issue a circular encouraging schools to share facilities. Such a move would be welcomed by students and probably by schools. My party leader...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the initiatives being taken to enable greater choice for each gender regarding the school curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14682/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (29 Mar 2018)

Thomas Byrne: My question probably should have been worded slightly more clearly. I am asking about shared facilities in schools. I recently met a delegation of transition year students from St. Joseph's girls' school in Lucan. They would love to be able to study technical graphics and building construction. They do not have the facilities in their school and they would like to share with a boys'...