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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of securing a site for a school (details supplied); the timeframe for the identification of the site and to deliver appropriate accommodation for the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47105/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) is in temporary accommodation far outside its catchment area and a permanent site for the school has yet to be identified; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that parents of pupils applied en masse for the school transport scheme and despite far...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has sanctioned the invitation of tenders for a new school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47049/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the stage 2B documents including tender documents for a school (details supplied) have been submitted to his department for approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47050/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has sanctioned the invitation of tenders for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to locate a school (details supplied) on the site currently in the process of the completion of the conveyancing process for another school; his plans to acquire a different site for the new national school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47052/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 862. To ask the Minister for Health if the social care national office of the HSE has sanctioned the required €1 million refurbishment of the Maynooth community care unit in County Kildare; if not, when a decision is likely to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47048/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 871. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received correspondence from Dublin City Council's special committee for fire and ambulance services and emergency management regarding the need for four additional ambulances to meet Dublin Fire Brigade's emergency medical service capacity needs; if his office received these requests from the council dated 10 February 2017 and 19 July 2017; the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry Development (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 960. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has determined the location the national food innovation hub should be located; the process in identifying a location for the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47054/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Divisions Report (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 1335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will establish a boundary committee to review local government electoral areas; the timeframe for the boundary committee's work; the terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46512/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Divisions Report (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 1336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to media reports regarding the establishment of a second local government boundary committee for South Dublin, Fingal, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Cork and Galway local authorities; the terms of reference for this committee; if it will examine altering the external boundary of these local...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: My question concerns the Minister's ambitions to bring the PRSI and USC systems together to some extent. When the ESRI first produced papers on the USC back before the crash, it was intended that it would become contributory, that is, a universal social contribution. When it was brought in by the then Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government during the first years of the collapse, however,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Life patterns have changed considerably and we now have many people studying or training until the age of 22 or up to 28 perhaps. We also have people who might take one college course but who then go on to retrain, as primary teachers perhaps. This, again, means that these people may enter the workforce relatively late in life. There are others who go abroad for a period and then come...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I strongly advise caution on the Minister's proposal to have the working group receive submissions from workers and employers who are actually in the system, rather than having those people represented within the group. I will tell the Minister why. In 1992, in a previous Government, I was a Minister of State at the then Department of Social Welfare. At that point, it was on the menu to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I find the Minister's approach to the issue rather disappointing because the previous Government, of which I was a member, had an achievable ambition, as he knows, to achieve equalisation in a three-year period. It is now November and I am sure the Minister's officials are having a close look at the self-employed tax returns. To go back to a point I made earlier, it is important to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister's commitment to publishing the report is welcome. I hope he will pass on that thought to his colleague, the Minister for Employment and Social Protection. The Revenue Commissioners know there is a significant loss to the Exchequer through what is happening with bogus self-employment. Much of that may be contained in the report whenever it is published. Essentially, we are...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: There is a very easy answer to that. There is an enormous surge in the number of self-employed, in particular at lower levels of pay. That is evident from statistics. Many people are in their third or fourth year of self employment. As the Minister knows, the pattern for the self employed is that by the third year and once the start-up costs and so on of whatever it is they are doing have...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I accept the Minister'sbona fides and commitment to the issue and that is very good to hear. If for some unknown reason the report is further delayed, would the Minister assist members by publishing the submissions that were made to the report? Submissions were made by various interested parties with views on the issue. Perhaps the Minister could arrange with his Cabinet colleagues to have...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: There is a great deal of confusion and uncertainty. I am sure people are approaching the Minister as well as every other Member as to whether they should have been put on a tracker mortgage. People may have negotiated a tracker mortgage and at a certain point the bank indicated that the tracker option which had been part of the deal was no longer available. Will there be a better public...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council on 19 and 20 October 2017. [44690/17]