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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Okay. We will come back to the matter on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 58:In page 25, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:"(c) in making regulations under section 28(2)the governing body shall have regard to the objective that at least 40 per cent of members of the academic council shall be women and at least 40 per cent shall be men.".

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I acknowledge that the Minister of State's amendment No. 65 goes some way towards dealing with the issue. I have raised some of the points relating to this matter previously. The word "community" is in there somewhere as well. The point is that the plans of the technological university, TU, to provide programmes of education and training should meet the needs of citizens - Deputy Burton...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 64:In page 27, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“(d) the plans of the technological university to provide programmes of education and training that meet the needs of citizens, business, enterprise, the professions, the community and other stakeholders in the region in which the campuses of the technological university are located, (e) the plans of...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: How does the position on borrowing for a TU compare with the current position? At present, there is an unsatisfactory arrangement in that, under the fiscal rules, the institutes of technology cannot borrow for, say, housing, whereas the universities can and this is holding the institutes back.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Will there be a difference?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I presume the Minister will discuss this matter with the Minister for Finance.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Which amendment is mine?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I have received many representations, including from party colleagues, to make substantial amendments to section 38. I have also received well-meaning representations from many academics to change it. However, I have considered it very carefully from a Fianna Fáil point of view and we are not putting amendments forward. The eligibility criteria were set down a number of years ago and...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I discussed this matter with the Minister of State's officials. I forgot about those amendments. They are not to change the criteria but, rather, to consider the internationalisation of the advisory body and ensure that there would be two international suggestions from the HEA and QQI. As I should have said earlier, that will hopefully satisfy some of those with concerns about eligibility....

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am willing to stay if the Minister of State, the Chairman and Deputy Funchion are also willing to do so. If the Chairman and the staff------

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Another 30 minutes would allow us to complete the amendments. I know the Chair has somewhere to go. I would be happy to take her place as, I am sure, would either of the other Deputies. I am not trying to take her job.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Deputy Funchion is correct.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 111:In page 35, line 38, to delete “at least one” and substitute “at least two”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 112:In page 36, line 8, to delete “at least one” and substitute “at least two”.

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Staff (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 33. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the number of community CAMHS posts in CHO 8 to reach the level recommended under A Vision for Change. [48225/17]

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Staff (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: If we were to listen to the Minister, the position regarding child and adolescent mental health services is absolutely fantastic and could not be better. That is not the experience of those in a crisis and those who need support in various aspects of dealing with their mental health. Figures provided to my colleague, Deputy Kelleher, at the Oireachtas committee showed there are ten...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Staff (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The bottom line is, whether or not people are appropriately referred, in every case they are referred by their GP, so presumably a GP deems it necessary that they be put on the CAMHS list. Has the Minister of State intervened to take people off the child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, list because a general practitioner, GP, was wrong? Has he put himself in a position to do...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Assessments (14 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 259. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be assessed by CAMHS. [47619/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services Provision (14 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 264. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for persons to receive counselling in the various primary care centres in County Meath. [47642/17]