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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Up to 15 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Did that expand the cost to the state or to individual students?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: There was a loan system and the state still-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Were extra courses provided in order to provide extra opportunities for loan companies to engage in the market? Was the market fixed in terms of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: I understand that, but was the student body or level of course provision expanded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: To make the market bigger.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: They did not really operate for educational purposes. We always see it as a good thing that more people go into education.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Dr. Doris is joking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: I thank all the speakers. Most people are aware that there are two parts to the debate. The first is to make the case to the Government and the public that a lot of money is needed. This is separate from where the money is found. Professor O'Donnell, in an excellent speech, referred to public education. We all believe in public education. The question is how the public pays for it. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: I am sorry, I misread it. Gabh mo leithscéal. One to 45 is extraordinary. What does it mean in terms of a class?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Last week, Tom Collins, the former president of Dundalk Institute of Technology, said the college used to give old computers to schools and joked that now they are going to ask for them back. Dr. Hourigan is telling us she is afraid of the fire officer. It is an extraordinarily dangerous situation in which to put the future of the nation. The witnesses have set the case out in stark terms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Barack Obama was still paying his when he entered the White House.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: He sold a lot of books subsequently so I think it became-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: There is a meeting next Thursday on the Cassells report as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Committee (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: Good, because I will not be here next Thursday.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 51. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations and the number of gardaí in each in County Meath on 31 October 2016. [36779/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism spectrum disorder units in the State in second level schools. [36706/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students at second level in the State that access an autism spectrum disorder unit. [36830/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils at primary level in the State that access an autism spectrum disorder unit. [36831/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 Nov 2016)
Thomas Byrne: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding major capital works at schools (details supplied). [36710/16]