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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (30 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 447. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise the provision of capital funding for the new endoscopy unit and other ancillary services at Naas General Hospital, Naas, County Kildare, under the review of the capital plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25531/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (30 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 639. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made in securing a replacement manufacturing industry for a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25532/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (30 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 640. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits arranged by the IDA in marketing County Kildare as a jobs location in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25534/17]

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)

Joan Burton: When will Deputy Adams give the Northern Bank money back to the people of Ireland, all-island?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (31 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 212. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions of the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 that have not yet been commenced; and the date on which he expects them to be commenced. [26113/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Investment Bank (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: The last few minutes have felt like a form of intellectual water-boarding. Some people know a lot more about that than the rest of us.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Investment Bank (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: This question is on the situation regarding capital investment and the European Investment Bank's capacity to genuinely assist Ireland as opposed to just talk about it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Investment Bank (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for that reply. When senior European office holders speak, they often refer to the European project. If there is one thing which will kill Europe, it is the startling failure of almost all European countries rich and poor to invest in capital infrastructure and next-generation facilities. When one looks at people living more impoverished lives, part of the cause is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Investment Bank (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister should not let Oliver Callan hear that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: European Investment Bank (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: Again, I thank the Minister for his response. We have urgent requirements. Everyone agrees about housing. The critical issue having regard to housing development in this country is that it lacks scale. The EIB has very significant resources. None of the local authorities nationally, including the large urban ones, is talking about anything like 1,000 social houses. Everything is well...

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister could just continue to tell us about how he plans to increase off-balance-sheet capital investment. In particular, will he identify some of the mechanisms he proposes to use? Is it special purpose vehicles? He has spoken about other finance mechanisms and obviously this is one of them. I would be grateful for this information.

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: To continue the point on housing and the infrastructure required for it, I could bring the Minister to an area he knows well in my constituency, Hansfield in Ongar. Over the past ten years, planning permission has been given for another 3,000 houses there, in a very desirable area, where most of them would be for purchase. Small-scale building is happening there at present but some...

Other Questions: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I hear the voice of departmental officials stating what we got wrong the last time was excessive cost increases and prices that ran out of control. With the establishment of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform specifically as a management oriented body alongside the Department of Finance, the Minister should have better ways of being able to control expenditure. Foreign direct...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: On my own behalf and on behalf of people in Dublin West, I express my congratulations and good wishes to Leo and his family, to his parents, Miriam and Ashok, and to his partner, Matt. This is a very proud day for the family and it is a great achievement and honour for Leo. Dublin West, the area which the new Taoiseach and I have the honour to represent, is one of the most diverse parts of...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: -----and a standing commission on taxation that will address loopholes and flaws in our tax system as they arise. We have accumulated tax losses in our system of over €15 billion, €9 billion in the financial services sector and over €400 million in the construction sector. As things stand, if the proposed sale of AIB goes ahead, that company could avoid paying any...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: Deputy Ellis is shouting from the sidelines again.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the witnesses for the information today. I would like to make a comment about the layout and display of the information. I do not know if it is because this committee is new that the witnesses have invented this presentation especially for it. I would like to make a suggestion, however, and I also say this to the Acting Chairman and to the secretariat. It is very unusual to get...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: It is the one on page four.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I know that but it is very hard to judge 2015-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: -----unless there are comparisons and different considerations. This is very advanced compared with the Central Statistics Office, CSO, and the Survey on Income and Living Conditions, SILC, which are pretty much in the dark ages. It is a survey of 6,000 people one and a half to two and a-half years in arrears. It means all the data on poverty in Ireland are a minimum of two to three years...