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Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Is there likely to be a need for a supplementary budget in the autumn or will the Taoiseach make provision for a full debate on the economy towards the end of May, when we will know the figures from March?

Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: In my constituency schools that were promised extensions are now being told those extensions are no longer deemed urgent.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Small community projects, costing €40,000 per year, are experiencing funding cuts, though they were officially opened less than a year and a half ago, in some cases by the Taoiseach. Can we have a debate in this House about the state of the economy?

Order of Business (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Can we have a response from the Whips or from the Taoiseach, on behalf of the Government?

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Not on class sizes.

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: As every school child knows, the Proclamation of 1916 promises proudly to cherish all children of the nation equally. As Easter approaches and the Minister for Education and Science heads to the annual round of teacher conferences, her report card for this year will consist of an endless line of broken promises and a big black mark. I will remind her of the promises she has broken this year...

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: With Fianna Fail safely back in office, does the Minister care? She may believe that she has had the last laugh, particularly on the INTO and the various educational interests. Such is her arrogance that the abandonment of the promise on class sizes was announced via a website notice. Many principals are discovering that their promised extensions have slipped from being urgent to some...

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister blames the board of management, the principal and the teachers.

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister is not a teenager and should take responsibility. As a Minister, she has led a charmed life in terms of promises for education. However, I have a feeling that her record is beginning to catch up with her. As economic horizons narrow, hard decisions must be made. Children should not be the soft targets of reducing expectations. The Labour Party's proposal to double the...

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: By increasing the education budget by just 1%, primary schools around the country could be put on a sound financial footing and parents, principals and teachers could concentrate on children learning. If parents wanted to fund-raise, it would be for extras, not necessities. I am proud of what our teachers, boards of management, principals and parents are doing for children in the primary...

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his proposals for banning junk food advertising aimed at young people; his timeframe for this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10582/08]

Written Answers — Energy Policy: Energy Policy (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the proposal in the programme for Government to remove regulatory barriers to combined heat and power and district heating systems; the position in relation to this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10583/08]

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: The Dublin transport authority Bill has been promised for a long time. Dublin buses, particularly those travelling from Swords into Dublin, are precluded from using the port tunnel, which would save half an hour's journey time. Without a Dublin transport authority Bill it appears only private bus operators will be allowed use the Dublin port tunnel and Dublin Bus buses such as the No. 40...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Apparently we need clarification as to whether Dublin Bus can use——

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: The port tunnel was paid for with tens of millions of euro of taxpayers' funds.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: The main bus company for the city is Dublin Bus but it cannot use the port tunnel and it is an extra three quarters of an hour from Swords on a bad day's travel.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: It takes half an hour on a good day.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: We are barring Dublin Bus customers from using the Dublin Port tunnel.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: I have a second Bill I want to raise. I have asked about it before and I am minding it like a baby because people are waiting on it. Where is the property management services agency Bill to deal with management companies?

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Tens of thousands of young people have bought homes but they are in a legal limbo regarding the management of their properties. The Government keeps promising but does nothing. Those three lads on the front bench — the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy Brennan, the Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Ryan...