Results 5,041-5,060 of 9,894 for speaker:Thomas Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding a small development of social houses in Kells, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9033/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to provide more social housing in County Meath. [9034/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I refer to the programme for Government commitments, one of which is a review of the school transport scheme. What steps are the Minister for Education and Skills and the Government taking to intervene in the bus strike in respect of school transport? There are reports in the newspapers this morning that, unexpectedly to some extent some would say, school transport is likely to be affected....

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: His boss is there.

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Now the Deputy is concerned about it.

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Look what happened afterwards. The Government cancelled the buses.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Issues (22 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on meetings he or his officials have had with counterparts in other EU states with regard to the impact of Brexit on third level fees that would be charged to Irish or other EU citizens studying in the UK. [8856/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Funding (22 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the amount of money lost to Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT, due to the bankruptcy of a company (details supplied) that was the institute's information service provider; if he or the Higher Education Authority have undertaken any assessment of the impact of the loss of this funding on other services or...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: North-South Interconnector (22 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his proposed actions following the recent motion on the north-south interconnector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9009/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Positive Mental Health in Schools: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I was going to ask a question similar to that of Deputy Nolan. We have NEPS but do not really have clinical or therapeutic psychology within the education system in general. Could that be examined? There is obviously considerable reliance on charities and other external services and the general health services. That could be examined. A point in Mr. Paul King's presentation that struck...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Positive Mental Health in Schools: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Guidance counsellors are not the same as agencies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Positive Mental Health in Schools: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: On a point of clarification, when Mr. Martin talks about the US states that have school-based counselling systems, is that the equivalent of guidance counselling?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Positive Mental Health in Schools: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: That is what I was thinking, so it is a different thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Positive Mental Health in Schools: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Thankfully it will after the last budget, following interventions by certain parties.

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

Thomas Byrne: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extra provision available for students already enrolled who now present with a specific diagnosis from this point forward with regard to the new model allocation for resource teacher hours; and if this provision must come out of the school's existing allocation. [8388/17]

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

Thomas Byrne: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extra provision available for students who will start school from September 2017 with a specific diagnosis either in junior infants or transferring from another school with regard to the new model allocation for resource teacher hours. [8389/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (21 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the criteria for admission of schools to DEIS. [8390/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (21 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools that do not qualify for the scheme will be removed from DEIS. [8391/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (21 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the admission criteria to DEIS have been finalised; and if not, when they will be. [8392/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (21 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will be putting in place an independent review mechanism, as was put in place after the initial assessment for DEIS in 2006, to address the concerns of schools that did not qualify for inclusion in DEIS but regarded themselves as having a level of disadvantage which was of a scale sufficient to warrant their inclusion in the...