Results 5,121-5,140 of 9,820 for speaker:Thomas Byrne
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Self-praise is no praise.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Levels (16 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that will be taken to tackle a burglary detection rate of less than one in eight in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40461/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (16 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount which will be specifically allocated in 2017 to teaching coding in primary and post-primary schools. [41007/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (16 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in 2017 which will be providing coding courses and at which levels. [41008/16]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Tá pointe ordaithe agam. Tá beirt le bheith ag caint linn maidir le Gaeloideachas agus Gaeilge. Táimid tar éis a chloisteáil ón gCléireach nach bhfuil aon áiseanna aistriúcháin againn sa seomra seo. Measaimse féin nach bhfuil sé sin sásúil. Níl sé sásúil muna bhfuilimidne in ann déileáil...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: This is supposed to be clear. It is anyone's entitlement to speak Irish if he or she so wishes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: -----regardless of the fact that there is no translation facility in the committee room. That is the position.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Guím Nollaig shona ar an gCeann Comhairle agus ar fhoireann na Dála go léir. The Minister for Education and Skills is present. Today the Joint Committee on Education and Skills will discuss the issue of schools admission and the Equal Status (Admissions to Schools) Bill that is before us. The Minister promised as part of the baptism barrier issue that 400...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Typical of Fine Gael making a joke about it.
- Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Deputy Howlin is not the Leas-Cheann Comhairle now.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (14 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he proposes to carry out a technical study on the merits or otherwise of the income contingent loan model of funding put forward as an option in the recent Cassells report. [40365/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (14 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has satisfied himself with current student staff ratios in universities; and if he has current figures for these ratios and figures for the variances across subject areas. [40366/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on equal pay scales for teachers. [40367/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (14 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether various pieces of proposed legislation from his Department will only add to the bureaucratic and administrative burdens on schools. [40368/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an extension and new building for a school (details supplied). [40369/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (14 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reimbursement status of the freestyle libre diabetic equipment [40370/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal (14 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 239. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm that Knockharley dump in Kentstown, County Meath will not be used again for emergency dumping, in breach of planning permission, and that the issue of lack of capacity in Dublin for waste disposal will be dealt with. [40364/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (13 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact distribution of increased third level funding announced in the recent budget. [40039/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Earcaíocht agus Soláthar Foirne Tríú Leibhéal (13 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil dualgas sa dlí ar Bhord Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, uachtarán a bhfuil Gaeilge líofa aici nó aige a fhostú; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [40074/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Exchange Scheme (13 Dec 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to initiate a teacher job exchange programme for permanent exchange as opposed to temporary exchange. [40114/16]