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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: WorldSkills Competition 2017: Discussion (7 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: So only three years ago.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Funding (7 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 137. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding spent on the programme for research in third level institutions in each of the years 2002 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46655/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Funding (7 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 138. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans for the next cycle of the programme for research in third level institutions; the amount to be allocated; the timeframe for the cycle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46656/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (7 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a referral for a person (details supplied) by the Meath community care psychology service to the national education psychological service will be made. [45763/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (7 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he will take following the finding of the Comptroller and Auditor General that the accounting arrangements between his Department and Bus Éireann to deliver school transport are inadequate in view of the significant level of costs involved. [46353/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (7 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the costs to be met from the transport management charge indicates that the funding received by Bus Éireann from his Department was in excess of costs in each of the four years to 2014 resulting in a reported accumulated surplus of €11.2 million at the end of 2015. [46354/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (7 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department does not carry out verification checks on Bus Éireann’s analysis of the expenses to be met from the school transport management charge. [46355/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (7 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 989. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if broadband services will be available in an area (details supplied). [46764/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (7 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason purchasers of houses post-2013 cannot avail of the pyrite remediation scheme. [45765/17]

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I fully support putting in place a national planning strategy with which counties and regions must comply. As has been mentioned already, the way planning has gone in County Meath over the past 20 or 30 years has been nothing short of outrageous. Some people lobbied on behalf of towns to try to expand them in order that they reach their full potential, as I heard one person say in respect...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there is an imbalance in the pupil teacher ratio mainstream staffing schedule which means that the bigger the school the PTR progressively disimproves; and his further views on whether this contributes to a particularly large amount of supersize schools in certain parts of the country which happen to have larger schools....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: This is an interesting issue. The Minister pointed out that he was not Minister for Education and Skills when the last list regarding school buildings came in, and I accept that. I certainly was not in any position of influence when this matter first arose, which is probably some time around 2009 or 2010 so I will give the Minister leeway on that one if he gives it on this issue. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I again acknowledge the change to the pupil-teacher ratio from next to the lowest ever. It was an example of mature politics. We can shout and roar across the Dáil Chamber but when we work together, put our case on the basis of what we have done in the confidence and supply agreement and work professionally, as the Minister and I have done, we can actually achieve and change something....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 4 o’clock The Minister is trying but failing to spin the situation by mixing up architectural planning with construction. He knows that building is different from planning. What was promised in 2014 was not that the schools on that list would go to architectural planning but would go to construction, that is, that building would start. Approximately 26 schools were promised...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The question is not whether the Minister is facing the various challenges he has listed but whether he is facing the challenge the Department set itself by saying that these projects would go to construction in certain years and that has not happened in many cases. This is a fantasy list and it dates back three years. The pre-election capital plan is in the realms of even greater fantasy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the widespread dissatisfaction with the progress of many school building projects, including many on a list published in 2014 for construction in 2015 which have not yet commenced, and the slow progress on the subsequently announced six-year capital plan for schools. [45228/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: This important question relates to the progress, or lack thereof, of the schools building programme. I started with the list published just before Christmas on 18 December 2014 for schools that were going to construction in 2015. Approximately one third of those schools have not yet started. That is the tip of the iceberg. I look forward to hearing the Minister's response.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Access to Higher Education (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allow greater access for those in direct provision to access higher and further education. [44945/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to locate a second level school in the general Duleek and east County Meath area. [44943/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (25 Oct 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for the development of a new campus for a school (details supplied). [44946/17]