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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: John Boorman was there as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of Croatia on 4 April 2017. [18007/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: Given that Ireland is a small country, did the Taoiseach discuss with the Croatian President the difficulties and discrimination small countries face within the EU? It is almost impossible for small countries to access the Juncker plan in respect of investment because, by and large, small countries do not have the very large and international private enterprises that can invest in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: We cannot qualify for it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: That was a long time ago.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: When the Taoiseach's-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: We cannot spend it, however.

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: Sinn Féin was opposed to drawing down.

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: The Deputy is always-----

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: The Government's proposal to sell off 25% of AIB is pure folly at this time. Ireland will sell off 25% of a bank that has cost the taxpayer tens of billions of euro for something in the region of €3 billion and we will not be able to give the people any dividend from the cash raised from the sale. For a long time I have been making the case for changes to the Stability and Growth...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy and Public Service Reform last met. [18008/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 644. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposals his Department is working on in conjunction with the NTA and the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to deliver on action points 250 to 254 of the Action Plan for Rural Development to work with rural communities to assess and implement improvements to existing rural transport routes and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: I welcome the witnesses from Dublin Chamber of Commerce. I believe the comments made by Mr. McGibney on the publication of cost-benefit analysis should apply to the committee. We are supposed to be a budgetary oversight committee but I must confess we do not get this information in any detailed meaningful way. This committee is part of new politics, but very little additional information...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: Is Ms Burke saying the chamber has no position on the living wage?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)

Joan Burton: In London it is widely accepted-----

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Joan Burton: Dublin is a fabulous city but its transport infrastructure is something of a shambles. It is a little like a recovering patient in that while there has been some progress, many things have simply not been done. I will focus on a couple of issues which I raised with the Minister previously. The Minister should not bury everything under the idea of having an underground DART because that...

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Joan Burton: -----in some element of public infrastructure, as we proposed last night. The Minister is well up on financial affairs. He should talk to his colleague, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, as the idea of throwing €3 billion into paying down debt at a time when we are more than exceeding our debt schedules does not make sense. We need orbital routes. One cannot travel from...

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK's Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Joan Burton: In a week in which Monsieur Macron became President-elect of France, the Oireachtas is due to receive an unusual visitor tomorrow - another Frenchman, Monsieur Barnier, who is the European Union's and therefore Ireland's principle negotiator in respect of Brexit. In France, Monsieur Macron seems to have slowed the populist march of the ultra right and the ultra left. At this very unsettled...

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK's Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Joan Burton: Without a doubt this is the most difficult issue that has faced this country for a long period.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (10 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the most recent European Council meeting. [20445/17]