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

Joan Burton: That is not the case.

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

Joan Burton: He is wrong.

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

Joan Burton: They are not suggesting that services be reduced.

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

Joan Burton: That is not what he said.

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

Joan Burton: The staff voluntarily took those pay cuts and deserve pay restoration.

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

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach is avoiding the answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had contact with President Macron of France. [29838/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had contact with Chancellor Merkel of Germany. [29966/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the main issues he will be hoping to address at the European Council meeting in June 2017. [29968/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I refer to the Taoiseach's conversations with President Macron and Chancellor Merkel. They have put forward a renewed leadership of the Franco-German alliance concentrating on issues such as the development of a eurozone government with a finance minister and the capacity to levy taxes on citizens directly. What really concerns me is the following. Can the Taoiseach indicate whether he...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 79. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had contact with the President of the United States of America. [29969/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers Appointments (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 80. To ask the Taoiseach the advisers he plans to appoint. [29970/17]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I call on the Minister to be a little bit braver than he has shown himself to be. There is no doubt that for most teachers, parents and students, singling one child or a number of children out for removal from a general classroom at particular times of the day is not appropriate. While that it may not affect many children, there is no doubt that children very often feel that kind of...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: To pick up on Deputy Shortall's point, in the consultation that was held in Croke Park, the principal of Stratford College, which has a Jewish ethos, stated that they have arranged it that religious classes are held very early in the day and the rest of the day is for general academic subjects. I think one has to bear in mind that some schools have already worked out the particular practices...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister will be familiar with the special units in most large primary schools, at both junior and senior level, and which are extending into secondary schools. I find the Minister's statement quite confusing because at primary level in a large primary school we are talking about two special units of six pupils in each class. By and large, there is a significant over-subscription by...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: Normally there is a great deal of discussion generally involving the principal of the school and it may well be that the psychologist may be involved but many of the children who are accepted in this situation range from having moderate to severe needs whereas children who might have very mild needs may just get the occasional intervention. Parents deserve clarity as to how the students who...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: It would be helpful to have that note and also to have some indications in it of the types of issues we are talking about. When I became Minister for Social Protection in 2011, I found in regard to applications for the domiciliary care allowance where children were on the spectrum but particularly where children had behavioural disorders, that they had not been provided for in terms of...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: Can the behavioural disorders issue be addressed?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I want to know if the Department is providing for it or if it is developing an approach towards it.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: This is potentially an excessively wide section, which will defeat the aim of many here which is to ensure people can go to their local school in particular, notwithstanding the fact they may not be of the religion of that local school, if the school has a religious ethos but is publicly funded. We tabled amendment No. 23 which, surprisingly to me and I may get an explanation later from the...