Results 4,001-4,020 of 9,894 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I am grateful to my party for pushing to have this debate and to get everything on the record about this issue, which is the signal issue in rural Ireland. The post offices and Garda stations are important issues but this is much more important. All the issues have been well played out in this debate. I intend to list the concerns of my constituents. I invited them to address their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I have been fascinated by all the presentations which were really good. If the witnesses do not mind, I will use them. I may call on the witnesses privately in the coming weeks and months to follow up on some of the points that were made. With all the submissions to the Joint Committee on Education and Skills we now have a body of documents that form an incredible resource. The witnesses...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: It is only getting the national average.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Inequality and Disadvantage: Discussion (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The DEIS students results increased but not by the extra that we should see?
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Did the Taoiseach say 2008 to 2016?
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: That should be the subtitle to this Government, "it takes time".
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: I wish to speak on the same issue.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Yes, No. 6.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: That cannot be done.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: It is no laughing matter for my constituents, particularly in the context of public transport. When they read the newspapers this morning, they will have seen a lot of good news about proposals to electrify the line to Maynooth, Dunboyne and Drogheda, but what my constituents really want to know is what is the Government doing here and now. What is happening today? What is it delivering on...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach should stop lying.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: Is the Taoiseach joking?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: That is a few years back.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)
Thomas Byrne: It has not had any effect in those few years.
- 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.