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Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Give it time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Last week, the Taoiseach said the parliamentary liaison unit was available to all parties in the Dáil. In this context, could he undertake to have a briefing note prepared on the UK Supreme Court's judgment and to focus on its implications for the North, given the later part of the decision, which stated the devolved assemblies had no role? Could he identify who he thinks will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: I disagree fundamentally with the Taoiseach on that one.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach is co-guarantor of the Agreement.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 19. To ask the Taoiseach the outcome of his discussions with the Spanish Prime Minister, Mr. Rajoy, during his recent visit to Spain. [2741/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the Taoiseach. I am conscious that Mr. Rajoy is a colleague of the Taoiseach in the European People's Party. It seems to me, given the issues and views he has continually expressed on Catalonia, that Spain will be strategically one of the very strongest advocates for the hardest Brexit possible to serve as a warning to regions like Catalonia that if they leave the comfort of Spain...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 82. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Mr James Brokenshire MP, since the resignation of the Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister, Mr Martin McGuinness. [1815/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of planning enforcement notices and actions taken against owners of housing units that have put these units into a company (details supplied) and are acting as bed and breakfasts, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3252/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of planning applications received by local authorities to change housing units to bed and breakfasts in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3253/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a copy of all correspondence to the local authorities from his Department in relation to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3254/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department carried out any research in relation to the number of housing units that are now operating similar to a company (details supplied) and resulting in a loss to the rental stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3255/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department carried out any research in relation to the number of housing units that are now operating similar to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3256/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the action he intends to take to prevent any further loss of rental stock to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3257/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (25 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he raised the issue of the loss of housing units to a company (details supplied) with the four chief executive officers to the four Dublin local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3258/17]

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Difficult and all as this discussion is, it is important that it is held. First, I again extend my sympathy to all of the women who were affected by this. I have read the different reports, including the report of the socio-medical historian, Professor Oonagh Walsh, who goes into the history of it. This was in Ireland, where there was no legal access to contraception and where the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 94. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if sole traders and self employed persons who are in dispute with the Revenue Commissioners on reaching pension age are disqualified from securing the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3543/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the outcome of his discussion with the British Prime Minister, Ms Theresa May, regarding her 12-point plan for the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. [2739/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: We understood from Prime Minister May yesterday and reports in the British media that the Brexit legislation is likely to come before the UK Houses of Parliament for voting in or around 7 March and that at that point she will be readying herself for the EU summit meeting of Heads of Government in Malta. The timelines are getting very much shorter. Thus far, the Taoiseach has been giving us...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: -----like the recognition of teaching qualifications in the South, the North and various parts of the UK. There are complex and simple issues that we need to know about.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: How did she respond to that?