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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: Can I be specific in my question? In the context of the additional funding that is available, will Ms King identify a way in which the figures, which we have dragged up, and I know the work that the Apprenticeship Council of Ireland has done, could be significantly increased in the next two years?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: It stops.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: The motorway stops around Bunbrosna and goes to Rooskey.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: There are probably people in the room more expert than me on the exact delineation of the road. The road is very dangerous when it gets very small.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: During the debate on NAMA, I proposed the social investment clause which the then Minister for Finance, the late Brian Lenihan, accepted. It was one of the few changes a Minister for Finance ever accepted in anything. I am disappointed it has not worked out or been utilised more. However, there is something that might be helpful to the committee or to Ireland in general. Patricia King...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: He has undergone a considerable conversion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: He is now wearing a European hat.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: Deputy McConalogue is from the same constituency.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: What a waste of our taxpayers' money. We have done all that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: This is a disgraceful waste of taxpayers' money. We are paying for the Policing Authority. It has produced a very detailed report which we had debated in Cabinet. Mr. Olson, who has done many briefings, came in and briefed us. I have a lot of respect for the Taoiseach but this is a fig leaf to cover the embarrassment of the Minister, Deputy Ross, and his group. Could the Taoiseach not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: What type of indulgence is this?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: It damages much of the Taoiseach's very good record on good governance.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: This is just a fig leaf to patch over a political row.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: It is a disgrace for the taxpayers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with the Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, regarding his publicly stated support for the concept of a two speed EU in advance of the EU summit to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. [8525/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel in Brussels on 23 January 2017. [10458/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on 23 January 2017. [10459/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: When the Taoiseach met the Prime Minister of Italy, Paolo Gentiloni, did he discuss the proposals by Italy and others in the original European group that they want to return to a form of federalism and that they will not dilute their federalist plans to keep reluctant members on board? The Taoiseach spoke to me briefly about this previously, and he feels it is part of the normal chat down...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I asked about the strategy, not priorities. What is the strategy?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made in supporting families in mortgage distress; his plans to further assist persons and families in mortgage difficulty and ensure they stay in the family home; if his attention has been drawn to the banks' failure to cut deals with mortgage holders in distress, including writing down loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter....