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Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: The other coverage on the matter is all about fear, including the fear of the people who were in mother and baby homes, fear of the mothers and fear of the children. This runs absolutely counter to how to deal with people with sensitivity and care and consideration. I exempt the Minister present from my comments but the stuff in the newspapers from her Government is an absolute disgrace.

Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister must have had a very bad day at Cabinet yesterday because of the briefing around the story and the unnamed coward of a Minister who would not actually put his or her name to what he or she said on the front page of a national newspaper. If that person feels that strongly about this and is a member of the Government, he or she should come out and identify him or herself. With...

Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister's Government agreed it. That briefing was agreed by her Government.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 122. 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; and the construction timetable [18363/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the precise steps that have been taken to secure accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, in view of the fact that it is due to open in 2019. [18364/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in considering a request for capital funding for a school (details supplied); when the school authorities will receive a substantive response to their application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the design team for a school (details supplied) have submitted the stage 2b submission including review arising from changes in public work contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18366/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 126. 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. [18367/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new patron for the new primary school planned for Dún Laoghaire to open in September 2017 will be announced; the school planning area it is designated for; the engagement his Department has had with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on the issue; if his Department has a specific site identified for the new school; if...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in the OPW formally approving the Lower Morrell river flood-relief scheme and the funding of same, in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18362/17]

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: I do not need any allowance from Deputy Coppinger. I am elected to the Dáil and I follow the rules of the Dáil. Thank you very much.

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: This is clearly the most important Council summit an Irish Head of Government will attend since our accession to EEC membership. To judge by the previous comments, it is building up to feel rather like the time Michael Collins went to London. Lots of people are obviously getting the knives and the pickaxes ready. On behalf of everyone in Ireland, I wish the Taoiseach well at the summit....

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: I am going on the answers the Taoiseach has given us continuously here.

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach has given us these answers continuously. I am basing this on his answers to me on numerous occasions. As expected, the draft guidelines published by President Tusk place a premium on an orderly, non-disruptive withdrawal. They also place a premium on the Union acting as one. These are important enough statements of principle. I wonder if we will achieve a common...

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: -----that negotiations must be conducted as a single package in accordance with the principle that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. Which is it to be? We have published a very detailed statement on Brexit. The Labour Party has recommended 20 separate actions which need to be addressed in terms of the island of Ireland.

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: In terms of the Taoiseach's communication with me - he did not get a chance to stand up and say it - a consolidated policy paper is being prepared and will be published in advance of the European Council on 29 April.

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: The Dáil will not meet again until 2 May. The Taoiseach-----

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: -----is depriving people of Ireland - in the form of the Dáil - of the chance to discuss the only detailed proposal.

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: I am glad the Taoiseach is acknowledging it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: There was an agreement on the retention of records Bill by the last Government. Pre-legislative scrutiny took place in May 2015 to protect the records of the various commissions of inquiry into child abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Review Committee as well as to hold the records for up to 70 years. Nothing seems to have happened under the...