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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if under the new School Admissions Bill 2016 will have powers to direct selected schools to operate an admissions policy which is positively discriminatory towards certain groups deemed to be excluded, such as children from traveller backgrounds or from homeless households; and if not, the reason he is of the view such a provision should not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost for reintroducing the modern languages in primary school programme in budget 2018 and for a national roll-out of the programme. [34882/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost for fully reintroducing the postgraduate grants; and the cost of reintroducing postgraduate grants for those eligible for grant rates part maintenance 75% and part maintenance 50%. [34883/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of postgraduates that have been provided financial assistance under the student grant scheme in each of the years since 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [34884/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ratio of special needs assistants, SNAs, to pupils in mainstream classes at primary level; and the ratio for SNAs to pupils in mainstream schools at post primary in each of the years 1998 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by county, in tabular form. [34885/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ratio of resource teachers and learning support teachers to pupils in mainstream classes at primary level; and the ratio for resource teachers and learning support teachers to pupils in mainstream schools at post primary in each of the years 1998 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by county and by Dublin post code, in tabular form. [34886/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Traveller Data (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1167. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide figures on school attendance and participation among Traveller children from 2016/2017 or the latest date available and for all years since 2000. [34511/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Traveller Education (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1168. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the approximate cost of re-introducing the visiting teachers service for Travellers in budget 2018. [34512/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Attendance Data (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1169. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has undertaken studies of school attendance and participation among children living in homeless households; if so, if she will provide figures on school attendance and participation; if not, the reason therefore; and if she will establish such a study. [34513/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Development Contributions (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the provisions within national planning legislation to ensure developers of large residential developments have to contribute towards the development of new school place and school amenities that are required as the result of the new population in an area; and his views on whether there should be provision under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether amendments are required to planning legislation to enable schools in conjunction with local planning authorities to introduce no fry zones or healthy eating zone in the vicinity of their schools; and his further views on fry zones around schools. [34831/17]

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: In south Sligo near Mayo. I should know it - my wife is from near there. We enunciated that vision of what rural Ireland should be and how Government policy should react to it. After the election, it was the most fashionable item in political jargon. Everyone was running around claiming to be for rural Ireland this and rural Ireland that, but when the time came, a hodge-podge of a...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I, too, congratulate the Minister on his appointment to the Cabinet. However, when one considers the portfolio the Taoiseach has decided to allocate to him, it is clear he would have more power if he were a Minister of State without portfolio floating around various Departments. Henry Kissinger once asked who he should call when he wanted to call Europe because he did not know. Who do I...

Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Half the time has been used by my colleague.

Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I will use half of the remaining time.

Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I think we will all support this Bill and I am delighted to join my colleague, Deputy MacSharry, in supporting it, as I was delighted to join him in writing legislation while in the Seanad. Government Members should cop themselves on and go down to a mortgage court any day of the week, wherever it is on, because they obviously have not been there. I have, as many of my colleagues have, as a...

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: When will the Government capital plan and details of the projects be announced? Will the N2 in County Meath be part of the capital plan? It is part of the N2-A5 project, which goes to Derry. It would have significant benefits for commuters in County Meath who are currently stuck in traffic every morning.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: That is totally wrong. That is turning it into a different ball game.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Deputy is going over his own court case.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: We are not discussing that.