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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: I want the figure for 2016.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: The note said the Department outturned 1,000 more places than expected this year.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: Will the Minister be making a major capital works announcement in the next couple of weeks, as often happens before Christmas, or is it just going to be the programme that is already in place?
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: They are already on the list that was published a year ago.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: May I ask one further question on that? In the major capital programme announced a year ago, there was a list of new secondary and primary schools but there was also another list, indicating that other schools may be required from 2018 and thereafter. Has the Department done work in order that it can be stated more definitively that schools will be required in those areas listed? Are there...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016) Thomas Byrne: Are there no announcements upcoming on new schools in general?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (30 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide special accommodation, as necessary, for exam students with epilepsy or who otherwise suffer periodic seizures; and if he will engage with representative organisations on this matter. [37843/16]
- Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: I hope a lesson has been learnt here. It is a very expensive lesson. I wonder whether the Department will investigate this matter. At the time, the Fine Gael Party locally was thanked by various people involved in the project for its assistance in this regard. This needs to be looked at more closely. More importantly, this premises needs to be taken over by Údarás na Gaeltachta...
- Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: I did not. I did not know anything about them. They were announced by the Taoiseach.
- Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 29. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the costs incurred by the State in terms of grants, rent abatement and clean-up costs associated with a factory (details supplied) in County Meath. [37410/16]
- Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Is oth liom go gcaithfidh mé an cheist seo a chur ar an Aire Stáit inniu. Nuair a seoladh an monarchan seo i mBaile Ghib bhí ionadaithe ón Roinn agus, measaim, an Taoiseach ann. Bhí a lán daoine á chéiliúradh nuair a bunaíodh an monarchan seo, ach tá sé go léir tar éis titim as a chéile. Cé mhéad airgead...
- Other Questions: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: I am happy to speak as Gaeilge nó as Béarla but I will speak in English so other people may understand because this is such a crucial issue. These were jobs advertised by the Government and particularly the Fine Gael Party as high-tech jobs. I understood this to be a high-tech processing facility. It turned out to be a waste-collection facility and I was surprised that public...
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Former leaders.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 61. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the Gibbstown Gaeltacht in County Meath. [37409/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next round of capital funding for major school works will be announced. [36954/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the major capital projects which were announced to begin construction in 2016 and which have not commenced yet. [37458/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the major capital projects which were announced to go to construction in 2017 and which are now expected to proceed. [37459/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the major school projects which were announced in previous years to go to construction by 2017 or earlier which have not proceeded in the year announced or which will not proceed in 2017. [36955/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding Northern Irish and British students enrolling in universities here; and if, post-Brexit, their current EU rate fee arrangements would apply. [37060/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (29 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an amendment to the State's free fees initiative is envisaged to cater for Northern Ireland and UK students post-Brexit. [37166/16]