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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (27 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have been approved home help or a home support package but that are on a waiting list to receive either due to a lack of available staff in County Meath. [41003/17]

Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Recently, the Taoiseach published a document in a newspaper in which he outlined his vision for Ireland. I was searching through it for his vision for education but it was extremely limited. Blink and you will miss it. One thing the Taoiseach did commit to was technological universities and he suggested they would be coming as a matter or urgency. The Taoiseach will recall that this party...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Breaches of Fire Safety Standards: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: All of this is extremely worrying, but the slowness of the Department in coming clean publicly is particularly worrying. This issue has been coming to the boil since 2008 and has featured in the media at various times in the past few years, but the first detailed statement on it from the Department was only issued on 1 September, on foot of which I requested that this meeting take place. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Breaches of Fire Safety Standards: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: What is going on here is utterly shocking and beggars belief when one looks at it in the round. Essentially, the Minister has confessed that information on the safety of children and staff in schools has been hidden deliberately by the Department for a number of years as a matter of policy. It is only because of the persistence of a number of journalists in making freedom of information...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Breaches of Fire Safety Standards: Discussion (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: In regard to the Department's recourse to anybody who may be responsible, there is obviously a statute of limitations of six years for contracts. I have concerns about the statute of limitation in respect of works in 2008 or 2009, because when one adds six years to that one gets to the year 2014 or 2015. Have the legal advisers raised the issue of the statute of limitations in terms of the...

Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Can the people afford to rent student accommodation? They cannot. The rents for students are prohibitive.

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Simon and others have been saying for the past couple of years that the Taoiseach is just an observer.

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach should not be elevating her.

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: They will put €5 on the pension.

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach is blaming everybody but himself.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (26 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 454. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if broadband service will be available to all houses in the Clonlyon, Kilcock County Meath area following upgrade works being carried out in the area. [40548/17]

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent human rights violations of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar; and if Ireland will condemn these actions. [39832/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Eligibility (20 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Irish family owned businesses can involve an immigrant investor in the company; and the requirements for such a development. [39288/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (20 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of services at a HSE day care facility (details supplied) over the past 12 months; the locations of the surrounding district from which patients attended; and the details of the various services provided at this centre. [39146/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (20 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the reason none of the services has been relocated to the new and under-occupied HSE primary care centre building on the Navan Road in Kells, County Meath, further to the end of services at a HSE day care centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39147/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 462. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a procedure carried out in Beaumont Hospital. [39505/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (11 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the autistic unit will open for students in a school (details supplied). [38422/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Availability (11 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 752. To ask the Minister for Health the status of short-term respite care available to persons in County Meath; and if there has been recent changes or planned changes to the way in which respite care is delivered in County Meath. [36782/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (11 Sep 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 753. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in County Meath have been instructed to find respite care in surrounding counties such as Cavan and Westmeath in view of the fact that the service has been discontinued in County Meath. [36783/17]