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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (11 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the identification requirements for an application for a public services card. [22442/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 163. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the document which will satisfy his Department regarding passport applications by stateless persons who may be entitled to citizenship but not a public services card. [22443/17]

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK's Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am supposed to be sharing time with Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin but we were not expecting our time to arise quite this early. I will propose to share the time in any event and hopefully she will realise our time has begun. I believe Brexit is one of the biggest mistakes that the British people have ever made and that the British Government continues to make. It is a horrendous thing that has...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, but I had my hand up at the very start of proceedings today. Many people who came into the Chamber since have spoken. With regard to the modern languages-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am sorry if you did not see me.

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am standing up for my rights as a Member of this House, as I am entitled to do. The modern languages strategy was first announced in a consultation in 2014. In 2015, a number of fora were held on the publication of the strategy. In 2016 it was announced in the Action Plan for Education that not only would it be published by the end of 2016 but it would begin to be implemented in early...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vacancies on State Boards (10 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacancies on State boards under his aegis; and when each vacancy dates from. [22211/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Courses Provision (10 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department or a body under its aegis has figures on numbers undertaking PhDs in each year since 2009, including PhD entry rates compared to completion rates in HEIs here; and if he will provide same. [22222/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (10 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for a GLAS payment by a person (details supplied). [22248/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (10 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for a GLAS payment by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22252/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (9 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 494. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment for disability home support can be expedited for a person (details supplied). [22050/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Administration (4 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the verification process with which DEIS schools can engage to ensure accuracy of the new education disadvantage identification process (details supplied); and if no verification process is in place, the reason for same. [21170/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Status (4 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the new DEIS identification and designation process does not directly measure schools differing student intake profiles (details supplied). [21171/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Absenteeism (4 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 264. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of school non-attendance data for each electoral division in Dublin or the smallest administrative division available in each of the years 2010 to 2016 in tabular form. [21172/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Excellence Fund (3 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the new pilot projects for school clusters to test effective interventions and provide evidence for future resourcing, proposed under the school support programme. [20950/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (3 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that there is an inconsistency in his Department's aversion to using school level data on education achievement or outcomes in addition to school level survey data to identify schools in which there is concentrated disadvantage for the purposes of DEIS, but is willing to use the same data to indicate schools' socioeconomic context...

Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I want to make a general point about mental health. There is huge community activity going on. Darkness into Light walks will take place in a number of places in my constituency this weekend. I could mention many other community and voluntary activities. This Parliament is about the Government. The confidence and supply agreement between Fianna Fáil and the current Government is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Could Dr. Corbet say that again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: At what rate of growth?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I thank everyone for their attendance. It would be great if all public policy was decided like this, with some of our top academics coming to a televised session to be interviewed by politicians. I think we would have better public policy if that were the case. It is absolutely wonderful that we have four PhD-holders here giving us their views even though they are different. I hope we are...