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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (16 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he plans to progress the three areas in the education sector that he has identified as his core priority areas of focus in the sector, including assisting children with special needs, supporting schools and building a stronger bridge between education and the workplace; the reason he has prioritised these three areas; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (16 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report on the consultation process he has established on a new three-year strategy for education of skills, Strategy for Education and Skills 2016-2018; when he expects the consultation process to finish and the final report to be published; the key priority areas of the consultation process; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (16 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he plans in order to deal with concerns regarding third level student support and funding challenges for third level institutions. [34871/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Brexit Issues (16 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 76. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit last met; and the status of its work. [34892/16]

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: I welcome the Bill. It is a copy, save in two respects, of the Bill that was worked on by two of my colleagues, the former Ministers Deputy Jan O'Sullivan and former Deputy Ruairí Quinn. During the previous Government, very few issues which were as divisive as the issues reflected or, in some cases, not reflected in the Bill. I recall, and the Minister will recall, how divisive some of...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: I did not interrupt the Deputy.

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: While there was much empathy, it was a bit like Mother Machree's dog. It was going a bit of the road with everybody. When our Bill was brought before the Dáil, before the summer, it was parked in cold storage, if I recall correctly, with the support of Fianna Fáil, for 12 months to ensure no decision would be made or that this Bill would pre-empt it. Only the Minister and the...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: I am sure Fianna Fáil will tell us in due course.

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: I refer to modern Ireland and the area I represent, and an amount of the area the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on education, Deputy Thomas Byrne, represents, is similarly a very diverse area. The most recent census showed Fingal has close to the highest level of international community. It has the highest growth in diverse communities and in many schools there are children from 30 to 50...

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: I congratulate Deputy Howlin on introducing this legislation in the Dáil. I thank the parties that have accepted that the legislation should be able to proceed. This legislation is important for women, particularly younger women, who might potentially have a crisis pregnancy and seek the advice of rogue or fake crisis pregnancy agencies. This modest proposal is being made by the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Education and Training Boards (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options available to persons drawing credits but not receiving a social protection payment in terms of training; the schemes open to such persons; and his plans to extend options for job training for this category. [35571/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Budget (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 219. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to continue the pilot funding, under the dormant accounts programme, measure 4, in 2017, to assist the Tallaght drugs and alcohol task force and other task forces to develop an alcohol strategy and the delivery of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35634/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Unrepentant.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (22 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach has just referred to principles in relation to Brexit. It would be very helpful to everybody in the House if he were to set out these principles. How many principles are there and has the Taoiseach or the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade identified them, working with officials? It is urgent that they be set out. Are the principles about procedures or do they relate to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (22 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with the office of the President-elect of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump; and the implications of his election for the future of US-Ireland relations. [34888/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (22 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: What ethical framework is the Taoiseach applying to his dealings with President-elect Trump? President-elect Trump has expressed reprehensible views about people from Mexico, whether they are living in Mexico or have transferred to the United States. He has expressed appalling views about women and his approach to them. He has advocated jailing his opponent in the recent presidential...

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (22 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Does the Taoiseach have an ethical framework which he proposes to use in dealing with President-elect Trump and addressing our interests?

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for Education and Skills for attending personally to take this Topical Issue. I was very disturbed to read in the media recently an amount of commentary that was largely headed "Diagnosis for Dollars". It referenced a practice in the United States of various professional diagnostics people being used to identify disorders or disabilities in children so that,...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: The Minister has provided a little clarification. When I was first elected to the Dáil at the end of 1992, I was invited to visit a centre in my constituency which had many children with different levels of intellectual disability who ranged in age from young primary school children to children aged approximately 14 years. In those days many children with intellectual disabilities were...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: As Minister for Social Protection in the previous Government, I had a close connection with this issue in that many parents applied for the domiciliary care allowance. The test in dealing with such applications was to ascertain the level of care and attention their child required over and above the normal level of good quality care and attention required. I strongly recommend that the...