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Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: This is unprecedented.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Give answers.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: He has nothing to do.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: That Department has no function.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Yes, they are just thriving.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Very small.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of the Examinations Commission in rounding up percentage results, for example, if a student gets 29.83%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5340/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a pass mark in the leaving certificate maths exam is expressed in percentage terms. [5341/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when commencement of a new building for a school (details supplied) will take place. [5519/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: There is much talk about plans but it worries me that the planning appears to be centred on Eir and Eir's strategy for the next year. Eir has a strategy for its own rural network and, before yesterday, apparently had a strategy for the rest of the rural network. I posted on Facebook yesterday, for my constituents, that Eir had pulled out of the national broadband plan. I view that as a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: The lack of broadband in rural schools is as big a threat to those schools as depopulation in some parts of the country and the cut to the pupil-teacher ratio for small schools that was introduced by the former Minister, Ruairí Quinn. That is the truth. Parents will look askance at schools that cannot provide the full educational experience to their students. As I said previously, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the levels of access to broadband in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5090/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: This is a very important question concerning the issue of access to broadband in schools. There is a real technological divide between schools happening at the moment. In many cases it is an urban-rural divide, and in some cases it is putting the future of rural schools at risk because they do not have access to broadband. Ludicrous situations are arising, as is also the case for many...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that schools infrastructure planning is keeping pace with demographic changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5089/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I apologise for being slightly late. I had to query a matter with the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran, to whom I am grateful. His office is full of useful information. I tabled my question to the Minister for Education and Skills in accordance with normal procedures. Is he satisfied that schools infrastructure planning is keeping pace with demographic changes? My...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: I am glad that a review is taking place. I have raised this issue previously in the Dáil. I have met officials at my request, meetings the Minister organised, to explain my concerns. What is happening in my constituency in Dunshaughlin and Ashbourne, in particular - I suspect it is also happening in other constituencies - is that houses are being built that are not starter homes....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: The educational welfare service of Tusla and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs urgently needs to be brought within the Minister's Department. Educational welfare officers are finding issues on the ground; they are definitely finding them in Ashbourne, as they will tell the Minister. They are receiving representations from my clinic and I am sure from those of the Minister's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: Tusla staff believe they are not listened to in the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Availability (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to improve the regional distribution of PLC, post-leaving certificate, courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4685/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Feb 2018)

Thomas Byrne: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that schools infrastructure planning is keeping pace with demographic changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4686/18]