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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commencement of Legislation (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 363. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the commencement of all sections of the Adoption (Amendment) Act 2017, in particular the adoption of a child by their step parent without the requirement for the child’s other parent to adopt his or her own child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44670/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for reforms to improve household incomes to ensure indexation of budget changes in welfare changes in future budgets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44788/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Credit Unions (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress his Department has made with EUROSTAT in respect of allowing credit union investment of surplus funds in social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44753/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach will be aware that several schools, including some in our constituency - a number of them DEIS schools - effectively required to be rebuilt or remodelled under the schools building programme and, in particular, the schools refurbishment programme. The plans have been submitted. I understand that in many cases, contractors fell by the wayside given the collapse of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Scottish First Minister, Ms Nicola Sturgeon, on 6 October 2017. [44891/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: Recent analysis suggests Scotland would lose €30 billion as a result of a hard Brexit. It would be reasonable, given the size of the two economies, to suggest the Republic of Ireland could suffer a loss of approximately half of that in the event of a hard Brexit. Northern Ireland's losses could be proportionately as high and well in excess of €5 billion, perhaps up to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: Des the Taoiseach have a plan to avoid it?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools to be commenced in 2016 and 2017, by county under the school building programme; the number school buildings that were commenced to date in 2017; the amount of capital funding assigned for school buildings in 2016 and 2017; the amount of this capital funding that has been spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the projected yield in the budget for a 0.1% increase in the national training levy was significantly higher than that provided in responses to parliamentary questions and in the political party costings provided by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44708/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: I am sure the Tánaiste is as concerned as I am by the enormous slow-down in the schools building programme particularly for older schools that are due to be completely rebuilt. We have children facing into the rest of the winter in freezing cold conditions in old buildings, which are no longer fit for purpose, and prefabs. Last year the capital programme for schools was €334...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: There has been no addition.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: It is less than last year.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: It is less than last year.

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: Just as the country recently prepared for Storm Ophelia through public announcements and putting safeguarding arrangements in place, we need to prepare for what could turn out to be one of the most challenging winters facing the health services in decades. All the indications are that Ireland is at high risk of a health crisis this winter due to a combination of a flu epidemic and concerns...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: Critically, there is no reason anyone in a nursing home or who attends community care day centres, on a daily or weekly basis, should not be facilitated with the vaccine. By and large, the people attending those centres are older. Second, we have the more recent reports of the carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae, CPE, bug. The HSE has acknowledged that it is extremely difficult to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Portfolio (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 63. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there have been inquiries from prospective investors about a replacement manufacturing industry for a site (details supplied); the way in which the IDA is actively promoting the site to existing customers and potential investors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45376/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tenders will be invited for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45375/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board has concluded its examination of options for accommodation for a new school (details supplied) in Maynooth, County Kildare; if not, when it will conclude the examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45377/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his officials have not yet communicated with the board of management of a school (details supplied) if the school is to be a new build school project or a refurbishment project; when the position will be clarified; when a design team will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45378/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has completed the schedule of accommodation requirements for the extension to a school (details supplied); if completed, the details of the accommodation requirements agreed; if not, when the schedule will be completed; when a design team will be appointed for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45379/17]