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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...

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

Thomas Byrne: That was not the case.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation Provision (30 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 21. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the long-term plans for the Courts Service in counties Meath and Louth. [15533/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (30 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 53. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures she is undertaking to increase Garda resources in County Meath in line with the programme for Government commitments. [15532/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (28 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the shortage and the need for shuttering carpenters in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15329/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Issues (28 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the key issues he will seek to raise in the forthcoming Brexit negotiations. [15110/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Staff (28 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home tutors are employees of his Department; if his Department is paying appropriate PAYE and PRSI in respect of home tutors; and if not, the reason home tutors are being paid through the payroll of his Department. [15255/17]