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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 923. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to extend the terms of reference of the mother and babies homes commission to cover all State linked institutions, in particular St Patrick’s Guild and St Rita’s private nursing home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12756/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 31. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will support the Labour Party’s budget campaign to retain the additional capital and current funding allocated for the 1916 Rising commemoration in the general arts budget from 2017 onwards to systematically restore funding to the arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13682/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I wish the Minister well in her brief. I asked if she would support the Labour Party's campaign to ensure the capital allocation for the 1916 Rising commemorations, which involve important work at cultural institutions such as the National Gallery of Ireland, was maintained in future years as a national endowment for the arts. I do not know whether she is aware that salaries, for instance,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister had discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Finance to maintain the funding, both capital and current, allocated for the 1916 Rising commemorations? The Minister has cited examples of good events which we all have attended, but we need a serious national endowment for the arts. They suffered disproportionately, partly because a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister met the Department yet?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister, therefodre, support the Labour Party's campaign?

Other Questions: National Monuments (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: The Minister will recall that as Tánaiste, I fought very hard to get the funding to have the particular houses taken over, which was a very significant step. Now that there is a new Government and the Minister has returned to the Department and given what she said about the significance of heritage, is there not an opportunity at this point to open the dialogue out? As probably the...

Other Questions: National Monuments (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: To expand on what Deputy Ó Cuív said, the programme for Government states that the Government will develop and publish an updated national heritage plan. I suggest that is an opportunity to take a broader view and develop a broader vision of the appropriate conservation and heritage of 1916 Dublin. We could have a more inclusive discussion so that we might get past the impasse. At...

Other Questions: National Monuments (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: No.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Recently, the economist, Dan O’Brien, noted that the economy has increased employment more in the past four years than in the 70 years from 1926 to 1996. It would be sad if we in Ireland failed to learn from the near death experience of eight years ago. For this reason, I urge the parties in this Chamber to engage in new politics and support the concrete set of proposals by the...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: To help the process, can we get an indication from the clerk the information that will be made available to us? If we are going to make a scrutiny of both the tax and expenditure sides, there is a list of things we will absolutely need in terms of total profiles for expenditure and total profiles of likely tax receipts. We will need those broken down on a departmental basis. That is the...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I might not have been clear enough. I am not asking for that information now. I am asking that the framework would have a commitment to getting that information.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: We have actually got through a good deal, and there is much common agreement. For example, we agree that there should be a social impact poverty assessment in the budget. We also agree that there should be gender-based budgeting, which would consider the impact on men and women, but we must also consider the impact on people of different ages, particularly older people. All of these are...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: The corollary is that what Deputy Howlin referred to yesterday was obviously because of the election and the hiatus after it. We are now in our sixth month of the financial year for this year and nothing has happened in the Dáil in respect of the Estimates. That was Deputy Howlin’s point. It was not really about last year’s Estimates. We are very far into this year....

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I refer to my first point. We need agreement on what the data flow to this committee will be because we will not be able to do anything without it. Deputy Doherty made the same point.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 32. To ask the Minister for Health if he has undertaken a cost-benefit analysis of the re-activation of the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if he will publish this; the number of patients who will be treated in public beds using the fund; how he will ensure that the diverting of millions of euro in funding from the public health system will address the underlying causes of excessive waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 80. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the allocation of €5 million in funding to recruit up to 100 psychologists and councillors to develop psychological services for persons under 18 years of age will be spent; and the timeframe for the delivery of these services. [13739/16]

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: On the same issue, with regard to the priority legislation listed for publication this session, there is the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill, which is about the provisions regarding the enrolment of pupils in schools and a requirement for schools to operate enrolment policies in a transparent fashion. The pre-legislative scrutiny took place in March 2014, but from the conversations and...

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Only last week we were given the list of legislation so will the Taoiseach clarify exactly what is happening? It is a really important area as it concerns the type of access that children, including those who may not have been baptised and whose parents do not profess a particular religious faith, will have, if any, to the local school system.

Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I wish Deputy Eoghan Murphy all the best in his very important new job. This is in a certain sense a technical Bill to give effect to the framework and structures of the European bank recapitalisation arrangements. It has been a very slow process. In respect of what the previous speaker said about the European Union and its response to the banking crisis, it was very disappointing. I...