Results 4,921-4,940 of 9,820 for speaker:Thomas Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 642. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is standard practice for a private consultant to be used to recruit for non-commercial State employment vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14261/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been approved home help or a home support package but who are currently on a waiting list to receive either due to a lack of available staff, by county. [12948/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 1291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if it is standard practice for a private consultant to be used to recruit for non-commercial State employment vacancies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14262/17]

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leis na Teachtaí Dála go léir a thug tacaíocht don rún seo. Tá súil agam go lonraíonn sé seo solas ar an bhfadhb an-ghéar atá againn maidir leis an tseirbhís shíceolaíoch atá againn agus na tacaíochtaí atá ar fáil do pháistí sna scoileanna....

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I move:That Dáil Éireann:recognises that:— the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) is drastically understaffed, with 95,543 primary and post-primary pupils across 397 schools without access to an assigned NEPS psychologist; — even for schools that do officially have an assigned NEPS psychologist, access to a psychological assessment for a developmental...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a shortage in the availability of the trade of shuttering carpenters here at present. [12285/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are exemptions for persons employed on community employment schemes to remain on these schemes after their term has ended. [12261/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (8 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of an application for an employment permit by a person (details supplied). [12312/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Registration (7 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for land registry by a person (details supplied). [11348/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (7 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the funding available for special units in terms of sensory needs and occupational therapist needs, including soft padding and soft toys for special needs children. [11584/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (7 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the specific training teachers in special needs units are required to have to teach. [11585/17]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “That” and substitute the following:“Dáil Éireann resolves that the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016 be deemed to be read a second time this day eight months, to allow for scrutiny between now and then by the Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills and for the Committee to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The programme for Government and the confidence and supply arrangement include provision for the Government to take action on spiralling costs for families, including in respect of energy, child care, housing and insurance. The consumer price index suggests prices have not changed much. Indeed, if one did not dig deeper into the basic inflation rate figure, it would be very welcome. The...

Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Unfortunately, as both the Minister and I know, the issue here is the provision of guidance counselling on an ex-quota basis. The Minister's circulars avoid that issue and say the contrary. We both know about the pressures from certain bodies within the educational sector which are opposed to the provision of guidance counselling on an ex-quota basis. They have got to the Department....

Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Teenagers face tremendous pressures as they grow up, in the form of the traditional pressures we all faced adapting to adulthood and exams and the modern day pressure of social media. One of the resources children traditionally had at school was guidance counselling. Mental health issues, self-harm and suicide attempts have all increased in recent years. Guidance counselling was introduced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Bodies (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department entered into discussions with the EU with regard to the relocation of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11092/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Secondment (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondments which have exceeded five years in the period July 2009 to October 2014, inclusive; the length of time for which the five years was exceeded; and the number of secondments refused or terminated in this period on the grounds that the secondment exceeded five years. [11122/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research Funding (2 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 356. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to put in place another five year cycle of the PRTLI for the period 2018 to 2022; her views on whether the €10 million allocation to the PRTLI in 2017 is sufficient to support research in universities and institutes of technology under the programme, in view of the fact that this amounts to just 17% of the 2011...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Teacher Recruitment (1 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: That is my point. It is not satisfactory that we do not have enough physics teachers but the Minister is doing nothing about it. He is almost putting his hands up and saying he cannot do anything about it. Of course he can. The organisations responsible for training our secondary teachers must be given some directions. Let us be honest. A student with a 2.2 degree in a subject which...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Teacher Recruitment (1 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: There is no way of doing that.