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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: It sounds like a wonderful facility. I ask the Taoiseach, on behalf of Opposition parties, to circulate a list of the names of those in the unit, their titles, their phone numbers and e-mail addresses. We can all think of occasions when we could use the kind of services that have been described. I presume those in the unit have names, offices, e-mail addresses and contact details. Very...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The way the Taoiseach is describing it, it sounds awfully like these are like relationship counsellors who are there to soothe fevered brows in the heat of parliamentary discussions. Given that we have all these people wandering around talking to advisers and chatting to lots of people, but not to any of us, although we would seem to be the object of their mission, I suppose I could ask the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: -----whether they have shared some of this relationship stuff with him and perhaps he could make arrangements to pass it on to the rest of us.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: A few relationships - I had many.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: How come they know nothing about them?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Has the parliamentary relations officer a relationship with him?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: I raised this issue with the Taoiseach on numerous occasions, both as Tánaiste working with him in government and subsequent to the general election. I see no compelling evidence that this Government is ready to face the difficulties and rigours that the Brexit negotiations will bring. I advised the Taoiseach months ago to give consideration to the giving of responsibility to a senior...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: That will be tested in court.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Having also attended the meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight yesterday, I was disappointed at the amount of information made available to the committee, contrary to what was promised. In regard to health, the amount provided in respect of the overspend on health is €782 million, which, as pointed out earlier by Deputy Seán Barrett, is an astonishing amount. Less than...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received an application for capital funding for a school (details supplied); if he has considered the request; if he will include the provision of the school in a revised capital plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2046/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the tender report for the Maynooth education campus, Maynooth, County Kildare following the re-tendering of the project; if he has approved the recommended preferred tenderer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2049/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the design team for a school (details supplied) has submitted its assessment of the changes that are required to tender documents for the project arising from changes introduced in public works contracts; if the report has been reviewed; when tenders will be invited for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2050/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the revised fully costed brief from the design team relating to a school (details supplied); if it has been reviewed and cleared by his Department; if the tender report has been submitted to enable the tender process to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the tender report for a school (details supplied); if it has been reviewed and cleared by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2052/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelcholáistí Issues (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 16 December 2016, when he expects to be in a position to accept the sufficient feasibility of the Irish-medium Aonad at a school (details supplied); if he will formally approve the go-ahead for the north Kildare Gaelcholáiste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2055/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will approve funding for the Lower Morrell River flood scheme in County Kildare, to enable Kildare County Council to seek planning approval for the scheme from An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2054/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include the provision of primary care psychology and counselling in primary care in the new primary care centre for Celbridge, County Kildare, in view of the identified need for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2047/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if he has communicated the revised arrangements for the implementation of the national positive ageing strategy to stakeholders; if stakeholders views on same will be taken into account before finalisation of the revised arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2048/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Expenditure Programme (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to announce decisions on the review of the transport elements of the capital plan announced in September 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2053/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: On the commitment to community policing in the programme for Government, on Tuesday I received a response from the Tánaiste to a parliamentary question I tabled concerning the number of community gardaí in the Lucan and Clondalkin areas. The question was part of a series of questions related to the west side of Dublin where there is a serious crime problem and, as the Tánaiste...