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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I will support it, but only if it is absolutely necessary. The Minister has not convinced me.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Will the Minister withdraw the amendment and then bring it back on Report Stage? If he can make the case that it is essential, I have no difficulty, but I do not think-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I will put down an amendment to delete that on Report Stage and I will wait to hear what the Minister says then.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am not pressing my amendment No. 122 but I support the Sinn Féin amendment No. 96.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I have to give out and I do not wish to take this out on Deputy Nolan. This is typical of Sinn Féin to go too far with Irish language requirements and start annoying people about it. We should be trying to stop that. Tá grá agam don Ghaeilge agus is breá liom a bheith á labhairt agus á cur chun cinn. However, in this amendment, Sinn Féin is requiring...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: It is the same as the previous amendment that required everyone in the agency to speak Irish at all times and that translation facilities should not be provided. That is going too far. That would damage the language. That is why I have voted against the Irish language amendments. I have huge respect for the language and I try to speak it as often as I can. These amendments go too far and...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: He did not legislate to force people to speak Irish.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Obviously.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Labraim níos mó Gaeilge ná beagnach aon duine sa Teach seo.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Tá an tuairim agam nach ceart-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Má bhíonn dlí againn sa tír seo ag rá go gcaithfidh daoine obair a dhéanamh trí Ghaeilge, beidh sé mícheart agus déanfaidh sé damáiste don Ghaeilge. Tá sé ag dul ró-fhada sa treo sin agus ní haontaím leis ar chor ar bith. Níor chuir Éamon de Valera aon dualgas ar éinne an Ghaeilge a labhairt,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his Department's commitment to upgrade the N2 road in County Meath. [29950/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (28 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his Department's commitment to complete the Navan rail line. [29951/17]

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: It appears that the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017, which has been the subject of a great deal of discussion, is the only substantive legislation that the Government is offering before the summer recess. My party leader has outlined to the Taoiseach some legislation that is important to him. We have given a commitment to facilitate the passage of the Technological Universities...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach should not bring the President into this.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (27 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timetable and plan for the provision of rural broadband in County Meath. [29488/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (27 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to improve broadband in rural parts of County Meath. [29487/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Applications (27 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether a school (details supplied) should be allocated DEIS status in view of the fact that two other schools in the same parish have both received DEIS status. [29521/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (27 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which have had their DEIS status changed as a result of a review after the main announcement recently; and if he will provide the names of those schools. [30123/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community First Responders Network (27 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 420. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to community first responder groups. [30124/17]