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Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Does Professor McHale wish to comment on the information available on the capital programme?

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Office for Budget Responsibility (22 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: What is The OBR's working relationship with the corresponding UK parliamentary committee and members of Parliament? Does he meet them regularly? Do they have a legal entitlement to a flow of documentation from him? Can they ring somebody in his office if they do not understand something, such as a line about health etc?

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I would be grateful if the Acting Chairman could advise me when 15 minutes have elapsed as I am sharing time with my colleague, Deputy Sherlock. This is the first full-on Fine Gael budget or economic plan that we have seen, unmitigated by any left-of-centre force-----

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: -----so this is what Fine Gael is planning, and there are a few things I want to draw attention to in it. Under the summer economic statement, the share of public spending in GDP will decline from 28.9% in 2016, which is already one of the lowest in any advanced country, to 25.3% in 2021. This is a shocking decline over a five-year period in the share of public spending and...

Other Questions: Consumer Protection (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that mortgage holders, tenants and small to medium sized business with loans or credit from non-bank lenders or vulture funds are fully protected; if he is considering extending the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2015 in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17521/16]

Other Questions: Consumer Protection (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister have plans to further extend consumer protection and regulation to people whose loans have been acquired, particularly relatively small scale borrowers, mortgage holders, tenants of mortgage holders and small to medium sized businesses, by hedge funds and vulture funds and so on?

Other Questions: Consumer Protection (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister met with the purchasers of these loans, the vulture funds and hedge funds? By and large, they bought with the idea of flipping these loans within a relatively short period of three to five years. We are now at a stage where, as the Minister said, we are reducing the number of distressed mortgages, but those left in distress are probably much worse cases and many have not...

Other Questions: Consumer Protection (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I spent perhaps three years trying to persuade the Minister's Department that the Money Advice & Budgeting Service should be able to accompany people to court. We only got the go-ahead for that less than a year ago, and it has already proven to be extremely useful. Many people have not engaged at all and they are terrified of the approaches from these funds. What will be done? Many...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding made available through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, for social and affordable housing provision; if he is satisfied with the current rates of interest being charged to borrowers through the fund; if he is reviewing the operation of the mechanisms through which credit is accessed from the fund; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Regulation (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport have received initial recommendations following a review of rising motor insurance compensation; if he will provide a full update on the review of policy in the insurance sector which his Department is currently undertaking in consultation with the Central Bank; the reforms he is considering to tackle...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budgets (23 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance if he shares the views recently expressed by the Dutch Minister for Finance and chairman of the eurozone Finance Ministers, Mr. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, that European Union Finance Ministers are concerned that the European Commission is not applying budget laws in the same way to large and small countries and is undermining confidence in the rules; and if he...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: James Connolly said, "Ireland, without its people, means nothing to me". To paraphrase Connolly, Europe without its people means nothing to me. Can we speak of European people? We are Irish and European, French and European, Polish and European. We see the shock and anger among people and a new fear of a further period of uncertainty as to what this profound historic rejection means. It...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State was smiling when I mentioned this in the Chamber last week. If we are to have a discussion, we must talk about this. Where is the Europe of Jacques Delors? Are we being offered the Europe of Jean-Claude Juncker with a multi-billion euro investment plan that has no levers to provide for investment by countries such as Ireland? While the plan is very welcome, it does...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed the recently published Labour Party Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill; if he supports the aims and objectives of the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18564/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Following on from the previous discussion, does the Minister agree it is unfair and discriminatory that parents feel they have to baptise their child in a particular religion to have a serious chance, if not certainty, of securing a local school place in the area where the child lives? Will the Minister consider supporting, therefore, the Labour Party's Bill, which proposes to amend the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the Labour Party Bill is to acknowledge the constitutional right for religions to be recognised and practised as people wish. That is agreed by most parties in the House, if not all. However, we are faced with an uncomfortable scenario where parents, especially when their first child attends school, find out that unless they are of a particular religion, they are unlikely to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I appreciate that but given the likely duration of this Dáil, the Minister has suggested a full year of consideration having had five years of consideration during the previous Dáil and more consideration during previous Dáileanna. The net point is that it is good on the whole to ensure children have a reasonable opportunity to attend school in their own neighbourhood and to...

Other Questions: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister attend a meeting of the education committee in the next week or two and before the review is initiated to set out in detail what has actually happened to the fund? I have worked with and known personally for many years quite a few of those who were in different institutions. I continue to meet them all the time. People come up and tell me their stories. Before the...

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Education policy can throw up many opinions and preferences, some of them contradictory, but most of us agree that children benefit from meeting and getting to know others from different backgrounds and religions. Most of us agree that diversity in our schools is an opportunity for society, not something to feel threatened by. No Member...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish the report (details supplied) into funding of the third level sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18565/16]

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