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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...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I was not fully apprised of how the Chairman was handling this, but we will be-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: We will question the Minister on his opening remarks.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: This covers a huge range of areas and forms a huge bulk of the budget, so many issues come under it rather than simply the salary amounts of primary school teachers. I ask the Minister to comment on the issue of pay equality. Is he willing to advocate at the Cabinet table for pay equality for newly qualified primary school teachers? In fact, they are nearly newly qualified at this stage...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I have other-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I can talk about the junior cycle later. May I talk about the circular on school costs, which is an issue I would like to raise with the Minister, later? It does not really come under salaries.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Thomas Byrne: May I speak about salaries later?