Results 4,421-4,440 of 9,894 for speaker:Thomas Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is not acceptable that in 40% of schools there is no access to free drinking water; his further views on whether there should be access to free drinking water in all schools; and the estimated amount of investment required to ensure access to free drinking water in all schools. [34329/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Digital Strategy for Schools (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's expenditure on ICT in schools in each of the years 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [34330/17]

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

Thomas Byrne: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of fully restoring the ex-quota guidance counsellor provision in budget 2018. [34331/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of its total allocation under the Capital Investment Plan 2016 to 2021 his Department has spent to date; and the projects on which the capital investment has been made. [34332/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Funding (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount of routine or steady State capital investment that is estimated to be required at each institute of technology from 2018 to 2021. [34333/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated from his Department to the programme for research in third level institutions in 2016-2017 and 2017-2018; the estimated amount of matching funding from either private sector sources or other State or EU sources the funding has attracted since 2012 and specifically, in 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. [34334/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio at primary level by one point in budget 2018. [34492/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing average class sizes to 23 at primary level in budget 2018. [34493/17]

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

Thomas Byrne: 332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of meetings he or his officials have had with senior members of the Catholic Church or Catholic patrons bodies in regard to school divestment or school admissions and enrolment since coming to office. [34624/17]

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

Thomas Byrne: 355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average cost of establishing a new autism spectrum disorder unit or special class in a mainstream post secondary school. [34875/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Designation (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new multidenominational and or non-denominational schools that have been established since 2012; the year they began taking in students; if they are in permanent or temporary accommodation; the patron of each; and if their buildings were transferred from another patron. [34876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Multidenominational Schools (13 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to undertake another parental demand survey to assess levels of demand in each area for multi- and non-denominational schools; the areas in which there was deemed to be a high parental demand for multi- and non-denominational schools in the last survey; the level of demand identified; and if this demand has been fulfilled or not....

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

Thomas Byrne: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there is a potential conflict of interest in his new reconfiguration plan for patronage divestment (details supplied); the arrangements his Department has in place to mitigate the effects of conflicts of interest. [34878/17]

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

Thomas Byrne: 359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether his Department's policy of not allowing educate together schools to establish using temporary accommodation at an initial stage unless there is an expectation that a State-owned building will be available to move into in the area in the short term is unnecessary and is significantly delaying the roll-out of Educate...

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]