Results 5,541-5,560 of 9,894 for speaker:Thomas Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Sep 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the early education supports available to children with autism; the reason children who are diagnosed with autism cannot avail of early education through the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme in conjunction with one-to-one home schooling by a home tutor. [27560/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Sep 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 259. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the early education supports available to children with autism; and the reason children who are diagnosed with autism cannot avail of early education through the ECCE scheme in conjunction with one-to-one home schooling by a home tutor. [27559/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Sep 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Special Education will be undertaking a review of the model for allocating special needs assistants as recommended by the focused policy assessment by the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service; and the terms of reference of this review. [26437/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Sep 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 551. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for an appointment in the Mater Hospital, Dublin, in respect of a person (details supplied). [26481/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Sep 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 572. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a requested appointment in Beaumont Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied). [26555/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan (16 Sep 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 1649. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if upgrade works on the national broadband scheme will take place in Kilmessan, County Meath. [24678/16]

Education (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: At its meeting earlier today, the Select Committee on Education and Skills pre-empted a decision of the Dáil on this Bill by provisionally scheduling some hearings on it. That is a sign of the broad support in the Dáil for this. I agree with Deputy Jim Daly. Parents who have had particularly bad experiences with the education system have contacted us urging us to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Defence of the Dwelling (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 58. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a householder is entitled under law to use reasonable force to repel a trespasser or an assailant at a dwelling; the circumstances a firearm is allowed to be produced by the same householder in self-defence. [23887/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 59. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of holders, annually, of licensed firearms who had their firearms removed from them by the Garda as a result of producing a firearm during a trespass on their dwelling or in the course of a crime being committed at their dwelling. [23888/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 60. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances in which a superintendent of An Garda Síochána is entitled to remove a firearm from a holder of a firearms licence. [23889/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of employing an entry grade teacher at primary level, including employers PRSI; and the cost of employing an entry grade teacher at post-primary level including employers PRSI from Sept 2017 onwards. [24205/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the minor works grants scheme to schools by 10% for 2017. [24206/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of expanding the DEIS programme to an additional 10% new schools; his estimates for the number of new schools that have opened since the DEIS scheme was last expanded in 2006. [24207/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Modern Language Teaching (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a reintroduction of the modern languages in primary school programme; the cost of establishing this programme in all primary schools. [24208/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to draft an overarching policy strategy plan for the higher education sector here. [24209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commission the HEA to carry out a more comprehensive graduate earnings survey, given that there is very little data available on graduate earning profiles here, beyond the first year post-graduation, an indiction of which is that a group (details supplied) had to use graduate earning survey data from 2006 to model repayments for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Data (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department or a body under its aegis has carried out any research into the current debt profile of university students and or recent graduates here; the sources and results of this research; and if his Department has any statistics on the number of university students who take out bank or credit loans currently for tuition and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Expenditure (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the deficit and debt incurred by each State funded institute of technology and university here in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date. [24212/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Funding (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is envisaged that technological universities will be able to borrow independently and off the State balance sheet, in the same manner as universities currently can. [24213/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (21 Jul 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of implementing the EPSEN Act in full for his Department; if they can give a breakdown of the areas in which these costs would be incurred. [24214/16]