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Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: School Staff (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: We will always need maths teachers.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: School Staff (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the report of teaching supply will be published; and how he proposes to deal with the severe shortage of teachers in key subjects and the surplus in other key subjects. [17092/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: School Staff (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I have raised this issue previously, but I think it bears continued examination. The Minister is aware that there are key shortages of teachers in certain subjects at second level. I suspect that these shortages are most acute in languages, including Irish. There are surpluses of teachers of other subjects, such as business studies. A report on these issues is sitting on the Minister's...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: DEIS Administration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain the application of the HP Deprivation Index to schools for inclusion of those schools in the DEIS programme; the discrepancies in relation to the recent list of DEIS schools in the programme; and if the DEIS programme was ready when it was published initially. [17091/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: DEIS Administration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: What I am seeking in terms of this question is information relating to the process for inclusion of schools in the DEIS programme. We have heard a lot about census figures and the HP deprivation index and what it comprises but we have not heard on what basis it was applied to individual schools. There has been a real failing in that regard. Since I last raised this issue in the Dáil,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: DEIS Administration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister stated that the information I am seeking is available on the Department's website. He also said that the schools will be given that information. What I want to know now is how the HP Deprivation Index is applied to schools. In other words, what level of deprivation or areas must children come from for schools to be included in the DEIS programme? Earlier this week, Mr. Haase...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: DEIS Administration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: How many children must there be in a school?

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: DEIS Administration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister has alleged that schools were included originally on a random basis or on a political basis. He will either have to put up or shut up. That is an extremely serious allegation to make. The Minister should name the schools included in DEIS that should not be included. If there are schools included in the scheme on a political basis they need to be removed because they do not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a contingency plan for the school bus service as a result of the Bus Éireann dispute. [16491/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding ex-quota guidance counselling and the announcement in budget 2017. [16489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Issues (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his key principles with respect to Brexit negotiations. [16488/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons a parent has no appeals process with respect to the allocations of learning support and resource hours. [16490/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the commitment in the confidence and supply arrangement on career guidance counsellors and the implementation of same. [16457/17]

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

Thomas Byrne: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the amount of other non-pay budget granted to County Cavan VEC and County Monaghan VEC for the years 2012 and 2013; and the ONP budget allocated to Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16658/17]

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

Thomas Byrne: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the rationale for the allocation of the other non-pay budget to Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board, CMETB, in view of the fact that student numbers at second level have not diminished and services traditionally provided across the ETB have in fact greatly increased owing to the vast numbers of the community availing of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Programme for Government Review (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the programme for Government first year priorities in education and the role his Department played. [16455/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Cards (4 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the exact statutory provision which is preventing a public services card being issued in the case of a person (details supplied). [16567/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services Provision (30 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: It is not the fault of the Minister of State present but that is possibly the worst answer ever given by a Department. It is no wonder the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, did not come into the Chamber. I am not blaming the Minister of State present. The Minister of State, Deputy McGrath, met me today. He was presumably in the Chamber for the full hour during which the votes were...

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services Provision (30 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I am not blaming the Minister of State.

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services Provision (30 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I will go ahead with the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne. I was not going to raise that as an issue. In my submission I referred to the facility in question as a training centre, but an assisted and supported living centre would be more appropriate for what is planned in Dunboyne, County Meath. In fairness, the Health Service Executive is engaging with local families to put in...