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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation model for resource and learning support for children with special needs that will apply in newly founded schools. [18111/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: CLÁR Programme (11 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 458. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the specific areas of the electoral divisions in the Kells municipal district that are designated within the CLÁR area. [17959/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme (11 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 656. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when low-cost loans for tillage farmers will be available following the announcement in October 2016. [17607/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (6 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for new and acceptable guidelines on wind turbines. [17112/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will address the need for greater community and sports facilities in new, towns and villages across the country in the context of the Ireland 2040 plan and suitable planning. [17113/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (6 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make publicly accessible the dataset with the index variables used to assess schools for DEIS status; and if so, when this will be made publicly accessible. [17269/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (6 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools with existing DEIS status that were assessed as not meeting the deprivation criteria in the latest DEIS assessment but did not lose their DEIS status. [17270/17]

Other Questions: Third Level Funding (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister has announced today that a technical study is being carried out. That has come as news to me, as a member of the Joint Committee on Education and Skills. We had decided to do a technical study because Peter Cassells recommended it . This is a new departure from the Minister. The best thing to do is that the Department fund an expert who joint committee would then hire through...

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will implement equality of pay for newly qualified teachers. [16487/17]

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: This question seeks to ask whether the Minister for Education and Skills will implement equality of payscales for newly qualified teachers. This is a running issue. I acknowledge some progress has been made on it, and I was pleased to be able to utilise the pressure of the Fianna Fáil Party in this regard. We have a commitment on this. It is an issue that is affecting morale in many...

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I and my party have repeatedly called on the Minister to make a full public statement on his and the Department's commitment to achieving equality of payscales and equality of pay for newly qualified teachers. While this is an issue across the public sector the number of public servants affected by this is disproportionately large in the Minister's Department and among teachers. This is why...

Other Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (5 Apr 2017)

Thomas Byrne: We have made some progress. This time last year at their conferences, young teachers got together and demanded progress and the political system reacted. Fianna Fáil certainly used its position to make this progress happen with the INTO and the TUI and I congratulate their negotiators for the work they have done and which they continue to do in terms of putting pressure on the...

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

Thomas Byrne: The citizens and students of this country will be disappointed to hear that the Minister is again falling back on retired teachers, because that has created controversies over the past number of years. If that is the Minister's answer to this problem, it is deeply unsatisfactory and very worrying. This is a serious issue. The Minister said his Department does not have evidence, but...

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

Thomas Byrne: There seems to be a problem with certain business studies teachers. As far as I know, a permanently employed business studies teacher can study a maths course that will bring him or her up to the required level. However, those not in permanent jobs face a difficulty. The retraining of business studies teachers offers a significant opportunity. The Minister could easily offer a number...

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...