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Other Questions: Home Help Service Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: I will not delay the House. The situation in County Meath and many other parts of the country is that there are a lot of people who cannot get out of hospital or who are in need of home care but the home care simply is not available. Needs are being assessed and people are being told that home care will be provided but when it comes to the crunch, they cannot access it. I have received...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach might be aware that there are 35,000 children without direct access to a National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, psychologist. His county of Mayo and mine of Meath are two of the worst affected, with thousands of children having no access. This is not to say that NEPS is not doing tremendous work. For example, it did such work in my constituency on two well-known...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: That does not relieve this situation.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (1 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 46. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the emergency department of Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. [4362/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions in addition to the amount of funding for this purpose, allocated to each county or local authority in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form. [4147/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the body under the aegis of his Department which oversees and has responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here; his views on the shortage of chefs and skilled hospitality staff; and the proposals his Department is considering to address this crisis. [4148/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (31 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when authorisation will be given to Meath County Council to commence a programme of house acquisition; and if funding will be provided. [4497/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when Meath County Council will be given permission to proceed to tender for and build a small estate of houses in Ratoath, County Meath. [4498/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Plan (31 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 388. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the towns and village centres in County Meath have been selected under the Realising our Rural Potential: Action Plan for Rural Development to encourage residential occupancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4063/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (31 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 423. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are exemptions to hedge cutting laws for contractors to cut hedge rows throughout the year, to allow for maintenance works on behalf of Eir and ESB Networks. [4338/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Plan (31 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 424. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the manner in which the Action Plan for Rural Development will impact on County Meath; and the way in which it will affect and improve broadband in rural County Meath. [4345/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (31 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 729. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided to complete a road improvement at a junction (details supplied). [4466/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: There is a ballot under way within the ASTI and I am not going to get into it. However, there an issue with junior certificate English, which is a part of that ballot. As things currently stand, Government policy is that if the ASTI membership rejects the offer that is on the table, junior certificate English students in ASTI schools this year will automatically lose 10% of their marks....

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: What about the fund-raisers?

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Trump went to the Sinn Féin fund-raiser.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Sinn Féin should send it back to Trump.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (26 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the financial assistance available to community groups wishing to set up a meals on wheels scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3676/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: What impact, if any, will the discussions today and over recent weeks have on the school transport programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: Separate to industrial action, would the financial problems in Bus Éireann have an impact on the school bus transport service or would the company seek to renegotiate the contract with the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (25 Jan 2017)

Thomas Byrne: There might be an effect on school services.