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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: At one stage, going back to Anne Counihan's time, the NTMA was quite involved in giving the HSE advice on capital spending, about the purchasing of up to date technical equipment such as high level imaging. In effect, the NTMA was carrying out a kind of value for money analysis and seeing if it could be done on a regional basis. At the moment there are problems in quite a significant part...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Only over €20 million.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: What if they bundled projects together? We have a lot of hospitals now with equipment that is so old it is embarrassing and that will continue. If we could find a mechanism where equipment could be renewed much more rapidly. There was something of a mechanism before, I am not saying that it was perfect but it resulted in a big improvement in things such as MRI machines being provided to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Okay, thank you.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he has had with Michelle O'Neill MLA and Arlene Foster MLA since the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. [13988/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he has had with Prime Minister, Theresa May, regarding any revisions in the timeline for the invoking of Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty by the United Kingdom Government. [13989/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans regarding the proceeds of a proposed dividend from a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13158/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sale of Aer Lingus (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of the proceeds from the sale of the State's stake in Aer Lingus; and the use for which the proceeds of the sale were used. [13159/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the supplementary tender report regarding a school (details supplied); if final approval has now issued to sign contracts for construction of the new school; when construction will commence; the construction timetable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13117/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the design team for a school (details supplied) have submitted the stage 2b submission, including a review arising from changes in public work contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13118/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the tender documents and stage 2b documentation for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13119/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelcholáistí Issues (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the enrolment to the Irish medium Aonad at a school (details supplied) for September 2014, 2015 and 2016 demonstrates sufficient viability for the establishment of the gaelcholáiste for north Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13121/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions Mergers (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to progress in talks between Waterford Institute of Technology and Carlow Institute of Technology regarding the proposed merger of the two third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13586/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Price Controls (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 28 February 2017, if he will consider further amending the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to allow for towns with a population of over 5,000 persons to be considered for designation as rent pressure zones in their own right, rather than the present system whereby the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 450. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to amend the new housing assistant payment website www.hap.ie to make it explicit that families that take part in the HAP scheme can be assured they will not lose their place on the housing list, in view of the fact that the absence of this information is giving rise to confusion; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 610. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of State assets sold since 2011; the use of the proceeds of these sales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13160/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 629. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in the OPW formally approving the lower Morell River flood relief scheme and the funding of same in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13116/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's preparations for the forthcoming European Council meeting in Rome. [13424/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to the comments by President Hollande regarding the establishment of a two-speed European Union; and if he has discussed this with President Hollande. [13425/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: What we understand, in particular from various British commentators, including the Prime Minister, is that Britain will be leaving the Single Market and will also be leaving the customs union. If that is so, and we can only go on what is being suggested by all the different parties in the UK, how then will there be no border? Will the border be at the ports and airports of the island of...