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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: GDP.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Are we allowed to ask questions?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: I will wait until the end.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Let me refer again to the labour market. With regard to the statistics, which obviously represent significant improvements on the earlier years, does the Department have sub-data or sub-analysis that would indicate the proportion of jobless households? In this regard, Ireland is quite an outlier by comparison with the rest of Europe. Has the underlying figure begun to improve? Could the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Slide 32, I think.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Can you repeat that please? What is PCD?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Is that by the returnees?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: What about the people over 50?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (6 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Technological Universities Bill 2015; when it will return to Dáil Éireann; the amendments he proposes to make to the draft legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29013/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the reported failure rate at leaving certificate maths; the measures his Department proposes to remedy this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29014/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (6 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the dropout rate in third level institute of technology courses; the measures his Department propose to remedy the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29015/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will acknowledge the lack of apprenticeships suitable for a number of employment vacancies such as chefs and in the hospitality sector generally to upskill young unemployed workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29016/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the uptake in the number of apprenticeships by females; if his Department has proposals to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29017/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: This is a budget with a purpose, not economic and social objectives, it is a budget with a political purpose to keep the show on the road, to maintain the fiction of a Government in command and control and to deny the fact that this Government is a ramshackle bus, the wheels of which are in serious danger of coming off. The motto for this budget is keep the show on the road. It is a tawdry...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on Brexit met; when it will meet again; the members of same; and the persons entitled to attend. [29298/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Staff (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the staff and advisers employed by him in his Department, listing name, title, salary and terms of employment; the functions carried out by staff members, including his personal office and his constituency office; and the location of same. [29301/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Staff (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil servants and the rank of same who work directly with him in his Department, including in his private office; and the location of each person. [29302/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government Implementation (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which staff, civil servants and political advisers are retained to manage relationships with Members of Dáil groups, including groups and parties involved with Government; and the location of each. [29303/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens Assembly (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the timetable for the Citizens' Assembly and referendum concerning the eighth amendment of the Constitution. [29304/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health and Safety Regulations (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: 33. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to the health and safety framework of each commercial and non-commercial State agency, when the health and safety policy of each was last reviewed; when the safety statement of each was last reviewed; if each body has a health and safety committee and when this was last elected; if each has a health and safety representative and...