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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (8 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical nurse specialists in posts as part of the clinical self-harm programme, including their location and their hours of operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6161/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are up and running in dual diagnosis in primary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6163/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank Mr. O'Brien for the overview he provided at the beginning of the session. He referred to the fiscal rules and the fact that Ireland is locked out of them by the way that Mr. Juncker has chosen to put out potential investment packages, which are heavily dependent on large-scale private operators being able to take up those opportunities. Ireland does not have the scale that appears...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: Can I ask Mr. Brady if it is open to us to interpret the rules in a more flexible way now that Ireland is out of the period when the troika had a lot of control over our affairs?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: In that regard, in the context of today's meeting I took down the recent glossy Action Plan for Jobs and the Action Plan for Education. I can find nothing concrete on apprenticeships or traineeships - however one wants to describe them. For a lot of children, both working class and middle class, these are an essential avenue to gaining a highly desirable skill. Moreover, many of them go on...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: The one most commonly referenced is the hospitality and restaurant trade. Is there any light at the end of that tunnel? All over the country, one cannot get chefs. Many young people, no doubt spurred on by all the fantastic television shows of contestants cooking and becoming celebrities, are interested in a way that they were not interested ten or 20 years ago. It is a fashionable...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I understand the Tánaiste and the British Home Secretary had some discussions on Brexit at their recent meeting. Did they discuss the British authorities' proposals, if any, to require the movement of goods and people to be recorded and examined in the event of a hard Brexit? Has the Department of Justice and Equality examined the possibility that such a scenario might arise? The...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: What situation is the Tánaiste referring to when she says "the current situation is working well"?

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: We are all satisfied with that.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: Is the Tánaiste saying they have not even thought about it?

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: What is the Tánaiste suggesting?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (9 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the timetable for the delivery of the DART underground linking Heuston and Connolly stations is under review; the timetable for the delivery of new rail and light rail infrastructure for the greater Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6414/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (14 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if there are understandings rather than agreements with any of the Independent Deputies. [4572/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (14 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: We read in the papers today in the context of today's discussions that Independent Deputies Michael Harty and Michael Lowry appear to have an understanding with the Government in the sense that they are considering supporting it in the context of Sinn Féin's motion of no confidence in the Government. In the context of the extraordinary Kafkaesque accusations which were made in respect...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (14 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach's Cabinet comprises a large number Fine Gael Ministers, Ministers from a number of Independent groupings and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, who is an Independent alone. Has the Cabinet reached an understanding yet with its constituent groupings and its Independents on the matters relating to the formation of the tribunal and, more important, as I said on the last...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (14 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I asked whether the Cabinet had reached agreement in regard to the Tusla matter and what happened to Sergeant McCabe.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (14 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to provide an update on the Dublin north inner city task force; and the terms of reference, chair and timescale. [4574/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (14 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I understand Mr. Kieran Mulvey presented the interim report to members of the local community just very recently. I have been told by quite a number of people that while people very much welcome the fact that the report has been issued at all, they have serious concerns over the fact that no mention was made of the investment of money to implement the various proposals, some of which are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (14 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: "Seán O'Casey".

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (14 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: That is the road to-----