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Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: It behoves us to work together.

Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I am pleased to see this recommendation included in the Bill. I pointed out to the Minister on budget day that he had left a glaring hole in the technical framework of the budget by allowing company structure to be used as a mechanism to avoid paying stamp duty. The expected revenue from stamp duty is a considerable complication in his budget arithmetic in a situation where he was under...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (13 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contacts he has made with African governments regarding An Taoiseach's cancelled visit to west Africa. [51724/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Staff (13 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 144. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has recruited technical experts in legal and trade negotiations in respect of Brexit. [50328/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service (13 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 283. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the contact her Department has had with the National Parks and Wildlife Service regarding the introduction of additional wildlife into the Wicklow National Park, in particular harrier hawks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53366/17]

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department provides funding to organisations (details supplied) to facilitate pay restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53432/17]

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: This question relates to workers paid out of the public purse, particularly in hospices but also in other section 39 organisations, who voluntarily took pay reductions during the country's darkest hour when the economy crashed. As these salaries are entirely funded out of the public purse, what are the Minister's plans to make a declaration on providing properly for pay restoration for these...

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: As the Minister knows, my correspondence on this has been particularly directed to the hospices. He knows St. Francis Hospice, which serves my constituency and his. The other sources of funding the Minister refers to are the donations of the public in each area to develop, build and rebuild the absolutely vital services for people in the last stages of terminal illness. Not only that, but...

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Last week we in the Dáil passed a Supplementary Estimate for the Department of Health of €195 million, which is additional to the huge extra funding that has been put into that Department over recent years. I do a lot of voluntary work for the hospice, as do so many other citizens. The hospices in Limerick, in Milford, in my area, in Raheny, which is in Deputy Broughan's area,...

Appropriation Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: While the Minister of State reeled off a list of impressive statistics and amounts, the Government is somewhat in denial about the scale of some of the problems associated with some of these headings, which are deeply worrying to concerned members of Irish society. I will start by referring to housing. I listened to one of the two Ministers for housing we have had in less than two years....

Appropriation Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Some 4,000 houses were opened up while Deputy Kelly was Minister.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: As someone who worked in the Dublin Institute of Technology for almost 20 years, I wish to recognise and acknowledge all the work that has gone into the proposal to establish technological universities in Ireland by various people in different colleges around Ireland. It is the Minister of State's job to be able to allay people's fears. One thing in the institutes of technology which has...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I understand the Minister to be saying that, legally, this has the effect of being a transfer of undertakings, which has happened from time to time in respect of various public bodies that transferred. My question is on something that does not feature in the Bill and maybe we will come back to it in the new year so I will flag it for the Minister. Does the Minister of State have concerns...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister of State had a chance to read the correspondence from the heads of department in DIT? If so, what is her response?

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: This matter has been widely disseminated in the media. The correspondents have expressed their concerns about the process.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: As Minister of State, did Deputy Mitchell O'Connor take an initiative to have it brought to her attention, read it and find out what the contents were? These are very important people in their different institutions. Has no one in the Department interacted with them?

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I accept that.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Relations Contracts Expenditure (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent by Department and public body and the total cost of public relations services in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53431/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 30. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the pension and public pay restoration to be carried out under FEMPI by Department and public body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53430/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans arising from a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53433/17]