Results 5,701-5,720 of 9,894 for speaker:Thomas Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (8 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 510. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to the family of a person (details supplied) for the fair deal scheme who are in straitened financial circumstances, to cover the cost of full-time care in the intermittent period, approximately four weeks, until the fair deal grant is delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15019/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medical Services (8 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 693. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide resources to cover the costs for physiotherapy sessions incurred by a serving member of the Defence Forces (details supplied). [14711/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (2 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 305. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is aware that a childcare facility (details supplied) in Drumconrath, County Meath is to close; her views on this; and her proposals to ensure there is sufficient provision for childcare in this area. [14134/16]

Mental Health: Statements (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: Táim buíoch do Theachta Eamon Ó Cuív as ucht a chuid ama a roinnt liom. I am delighted to be able to contribute to the debate. I already spoke on the issue of mental health in the debate on health which took place before this one. I congratulate the new Ministers of State, Deputies Helen McEntee and Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, on their appointments and I wish them well....

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: On the same issue, the briefing the Minister got in the Department of Education and Skills pointed out there was significant work under way already with Bus Éireann with a view to making the changes that are proposed. This is even before a review. There was a review announced in the programme for Government but before that announcement there seems to have been significant work going...

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: The issue concerns concessionary students on those buses.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (1 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building (details supplied). [13928/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (1 Jun 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of ongoing maintenance of flood relief works on the Tolka river in Dunboyne, County Meath. [13935/16]

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach is on the side of the angels, all right.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: Now the Deputy knows how we feel.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: Is that the way the Taoiseach spoke to the Deputy at Cabinet?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Relief Eligibility (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 243. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the availability of agricultural relief from capital acquisitions tax where the farming land, the subject of the relief, is wholly or partially the subject of an unexercised option in favour of a wind turbine developer or the subject of a burden in the Land Registry prohibiting any alienation or transfer of the landholding without...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Reviews (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 333 of 17 May 2016 if he will provide figures on the number of schools that are not currently in a position to implement the new junior cycle English classroom assessment for second year English due to the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland ban on teacher participation; to provide figures on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ten year old children here currently learning a modern language and the number of primary schools here that teach a modern language. [13349/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of stage 4 of the designation process for technological university status, that is, an application for designation; the length of time, once a consortium has entered this stage, that it will take to complete this process; and if, upon completing the four stages, legislation will be required for a consortium to be fully...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 17 May 2016, if he will provide further details regarding the differences in mission and core research/teaching functions between a technological university and a traditional university here (details supplied). [13351/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that greater Exchequer and/or non-Exchequer funding will be required to facilitate the transition to technological universities designation by the current consortia; if his Department can provide data on the level of funding it believes will be required; and for details of the level of additional Exchequer funding support and/or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to re-introduce the Technological Universities Bill 2015 in the Dáil on Report Stage. [13353/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 352. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how he envisages a public consultation will take place regarding industrial turbine development and the planning guidelines relating to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12767/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (31 May 2016)

Thomas Byrne: 710. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the discontinuance of contracts for physiotherapists in County Meath; if they will be replaced; and how the service for adult physiotherapist will continue to be provided for. [13217/16]