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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.

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

Thomas Byrne: It would simply be a matter of the Minister directing someone to train a certain number of physics teachers.

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

Thomas Byrne: 21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans regarding the issue of teacher supply; the reason the interim report on teacher supply has not been followed up; and if his attention has been drawn to the details of the secondary teachers who are qualifying and the subjects in which they are qualifying and the impact this inaction has on plans for the education sector. [10619/17]

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

Thomas Byrne: This question raises another crucially important issue in the field of education, and one that it is fair to say has been completely ignored by the Department over the past number of years. It is hardly mentioned in the various action plans. Indeed, any action the Minister wants to take within the schools field in the Department of Education and Skills is utterly predicated on this issue of...

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

Thomas Byrne: The Minister is telling the House that not only his predecessor, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, but he sat on this crucial issue and the Minister and the Department do not have a clue what subjects teachers are qualifying in. When the Minister comes out with his announcements, for example, coding will be the next big thing, languages are very important or we must emphasise STEM subjects, he has no...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a fair appeals system for schools not admitted to the DEIS programme; the reason the entry criteria for DEIS are not based on the latest census data; and if work is actually complete on the model for achieving DEIS status. [10618/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I wish to ask the Minister about his plans to introduce a fair appeals system for schools that have not been admitted to the DEIS process, a process that seems to be fairly arbitrary. Can he also tell me why the entry criteria for DEIS are not based on the latest census results? Could he tell me whether work on the model for achieving DEIS has been completed because it must be said that it...