Results 4,421-4,440 of 9,820 for speaker:Thomas Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (6 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on reducing the pay scale equality gap affecting recently qualified teachers. [31744/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase provision of second level education in the eastern part of County Meath, in particular, the Duleek area. [31746/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (6 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application by persons (details supplied). [31828/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (5 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for additional accommodation at a school (details supplied) [31815/17]

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The programme for Government promises to look at the whole issue of special needs education. There seems to be significant delay on the part of the Department of Education and Skills and the National Council for Special Education in allocating special needs assistants, SNAs, for next year. Already schools and parents are concerned that they do not know what is happening. I hope some...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: It is a big area of the country.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Negotiations (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to avoid a hard border as a result of Brexit which would create an obstacle to ease of travel and business to Northern Ireland. [30567/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 20 June 2017, if it is possible to vary the rate employers pay in the national training levy to the proposed employer contribution mechanism according to the assumed benefit they derive from higher education training or alternatively to varying contributions by sector whereby employers in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 20 June 2017, if the National Training Fund Act 2000 was amended appropriately, if it would be possible to use a portion of the accumulated surplus and-or annual surplus of the NTF for capital funding in the further or higher education sectors. [30874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether it is justified to ask employers to contribute more to the NTF via the employers' levy in view of the fact that the fund already has such a large surplus which is not being used. [30876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 20 June 2017, if he will answer the original question which requested information on whether he has sought approval from EUROSTAT on whether it would be permissible under the fiscal rules to use the surplus from the National Training Fund levy for capital expenditure, which was not answered...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that in every year since its establishment except for 2012 and 2014 there was an annual surplus in the National Training Fund, including in years with very significant increases in unemployment and training needs of the population; his further views on whether the size of the accumulated surplus of the fund and the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the proposed Exchequer employer investment mechanism which would enable the NTF to be used to fund higher education institutions will require legislative amendment to the National Training Fund Act 2000. [30911/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 20 June 2017, if under the National Training Fund Act 2000, the annual surplus not the accumulated surplus which was €54 million in 2016, can be used to fund education undertaken at higher education institutions. [30912/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 20 June 2017, if he will answer the question and provide details of all funding to each ETB from 2014 to 2017 which is channelled through SOLAS from his Department (details supplied); and if his Department does not have access to this data, his views on whether this is acceptable. [30914/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capitation levels per pupil to primary schools and to post primary schools; and the estimated cost of restoring capitation levels for both to pre 2010 levels. [30940/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of equalising school funding between voluntary secondary schools and community and comprehensive secondary schools. [30942/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Healthy Living Strategies (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to publish a strategy, plan or guidelines on the availability of foods high in fat, salt and sugars and on vending machines in secondary schools; and the guidelines at present to schools on the availability of such foods in vending machines in schools. [30943/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Mental Health Strategies (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made on the national roll-out of the headstrong help seeking schools based substance misuse programme to all schools. [30944/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (4 Jul 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approximate cost of restoring the staffing schedule for retaining and gaining a teacher that applied for schools pre-2012. [30968/17]