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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Implications of Brexit for the Irish Educational System: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I thank everybody for their presentations. I apologise for my brief absence at the start of the meeting. The committee will probably debate this matter over the next two years. We will not know what is going to happen in terms of all of the individual issues until negotiations start. Brexit poses opportunities and challenges and there will be wins and losses. More money is needed to...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Recently, in accordance with the confidence and supply agreement, there was a circular issued to schools in regard to guidance counselling. There has been a lot of worry in schools that this circular did not ring-fence guidance counselling. The Taoiseach provided a note to my leader, Deputy Micheál Martin, which made clear that the guidance provision was ex quota but that has not been...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: We should definitely phase it out.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance if diagnosed severe autism will be included on the criteria for a primary medical certificate. [12966/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the rule book of every Revenue Commissioner staff pension scheme commenced in the 1970s and 1980s which would affect staff currently retiring. [13529/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of all forms the Revenue Commissioners used in the 1970s and 1980s providing for opt in and opt out in respect of spouse and child pension provision for staff members. [13554/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Data (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of staff members in the Revenue Commissioners that have opted out of spouse and child pension provision. [13555/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an assessment by a child psychologist of the National Educational Psychological Service will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied). [12874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review on Caranua; and the expected date of completion for the report. [12896/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for refusal of a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied). [13051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the position of the DEIS programme in view of recent errors being discovered in the DEIS list. [13897/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the recently-discovered error with the DEIS list was first discovered. [13898/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to make further revisions to the DEIS list. [13899/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the revised methodology he is using to assess schools to enter the DEIS scheme; and the way it differs from the original methodology. [13900/17]

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]