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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (19 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department has put in place to ensure third level institutions adhere to standard public sector promotion procedures in keeping with the Haddington Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2336/17]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: I represent many tens of thousands of people who work in Dublin Airport, which is one of the most vital engines of the Irish economy. Any breach or lapse of security at the airport has to an issue of the utmost seriousness for the Government. Dublin Airport is vital to our national economy. If we become seen as a soft touch in terms of abuse, it will be very damaging to us at a time when...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: We have raised this issue many times in the past year and a half. The Taoiseach will recall that when the Labour Party was in office, we discussed this issue as a Government. It is important to understand that people-smuggling is one of the most evil things on the planet. It often involves younger people and women, in particular, being smuggled and ending up in prostitution.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: They often end up in completely illegal situations over a long period of years. The vast debts they owe to the people-smugglers often carry on through families. If the Garda National Investigation Bureau has been doing more work on this issue as a consequence of the civilianisation of the airport, I welcome that. An immediate high-level inquiry is needed to ensure that what has happened in...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach has told us time out of number that his position in the negotiations is one of 27. What people have been trying to convey to the Taoiseach for several months is this position is inadequate. The consensus is there needs to be a distinctive position regarding the island of Ireland in all its complexity and in the context of the Belfast Agreement being an international agreement...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: That is not satisfactory for people on the island of Ireland.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: That was my job.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Taking the Taoiseach's explanation of his strategy, he has said repeatedly that nothing happens until Article 50 is triggered, but his problem in terms of a strategy is that everything happens when Article 50 is triggered. Historically, the most important thing - the Taoiseach might agree with me - is that the Franco-German-Italian alliance becomes the absolute leadership and key force in...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: He has to start actually negotiating Ireland's strategic position in identifying the strategy right now-----

Ceisteanna – Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: -----before we see this historic change.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Not the island of Ireland.

Topical Issue Debate: Airport Security (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The recent arrests at Dublin Airport pose the most serious questions about security at the facility. The Taoiseach and Tánaiste, who is present, must order a high-level review into the current security systems in use at the airport. At the very least, those systems appear to be quite porous and will cause major concern among the tens of millions of people travelling through the airport...

Topical Issue Debate: Airport Security (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the Tánaiste for her reply. With the clock ticking until the UK leaves the European Union, it is really vital that our borders are secure and any security issues at our airports or ports should be swiftly dealt with. I note with some concern that the Tánaiste stated that since last November and the connection to Interpol's lost and stolen documents database, in the first...

Topical Issue Debate: Airport Security (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: On the basis of the November examination, is the Tánaiste not concerned that Irish identities have been stolen? This is what her report suggests.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has read the USI position paper on the funding of higher education regarding the effects a loan scheme would have on students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2981/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Reviews (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on junior certificate syllabus, subject and assessment reforms and his key priorities in this regard for 2017 and 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2982/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 180. 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. [2983/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce class sizes and build on the measures to reduce class sizes in previous budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2984/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the primary and post-primary average class size figures for Ireland and for other EU member states; his plans to tackle large class size concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2987/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider further improvements in the pupil-teacher ratio to help reduce the class size towards EU average in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3006/17]