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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that reports indicating the number of applications for entry to a number of postgraduate courses for second level teaching has fallen in 2018; his plans in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4953/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Career Breaks (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of job sharing and career break entitlements for primary teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4951/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the current and potential teacher shortages in STEM subjects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4952/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Supervision and Substitution Scheme (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of a properly structured national panel of substitute teachers to tackle the crisis in teacher substitution at primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4954/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: The proposal and the elements the Minister has outlined are strange and baffling. In terms of the language used by the Minister, it almost feels we are in a "Back to the Future" moment, with extremely Bertie Ahernesque language being used in referring to there being more people at work then ever before, things being better than ever and so forth. I sat in these and similar rooms ten years...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister tell me, as far as he knows, how this will be treated for accounting purposes, particularly as there is a double bind on it? When money is put in does it reduce our debt? When money is taken out, it counts as expenditure. In a sudden crash of the economy, that could become a very difficult issue. It certainly did on the most recent occasion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: With respect, we still need some technical answers in respect of this fund. Can we get an explanation which sets out the debt impacts, the spending limitations and any other implications which this fund will have? The Chairperson knows as well as I that when the rating agencies come to examine national debt, the gross national debt is the figure many of them use, as do the US markets. The...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: The Minister has calculations of net debt balances in the NTMA and so on, but that is not the way in which the market firms that rate countries operate. I am really at a loss as to why he would do this. Finally, we have serious problems in housing------

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: I am about to finish on this.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: We also have problems in the area of health and a ginormous problem in respect of both public pensions and public service pensions. In fact, we also had a discussion yesterday about a supplementary pension that the Government has been unable to kick-start. There are much more valuable objectives which we could discuss as alternatives. We need a technical explanation of this proposal which...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: Can I ask a brief question? I have to go to the Dáil. The question is factual.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Proposal to Establish a Rainy Day Fund: Minister for Finance (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: I made some commentary during my previous contribution. Will the Minister advise us of his assessment of where the off-balance sheet investment rules currently stand in the context of EUROSTAT and the European Union? To my understanding, it is becoming increasingly difficult to have, for example, public private partnerships classified as they have been for a period as off-balance sheet...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the failure to increase the number of apprenticeships required in construction and related trades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4895/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (1 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools being built through the private finance initiative and European Investment Bank packages; the names, location and value by bundle if applicable; the principal contractors in respect of same; the estimated date for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4892/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (1 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contracts between his Department and a company (details supplied); if the contracts are insured; the consequences for the delivery of the contracted service or construction projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4893/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (1 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the evaluation of PLC, post-leaving certificate, programme provision published by the ESRI in January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4896/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (1 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the provision of school buildings and facilities in Dublin 15 and the Pelletstown, Navan Road and Ashtown areas of Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4894/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met. [5727/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Mr Antonio Tajani, on 17 January 2018. [3003/18]

Centenary of Women's Suffrage: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: As women Members of Dáil Éireann, we truly stand on the shoulders of giants in terms of the women who fought and won suffrage for women and who led the way in women becoming Members of Parliament and, as has been pointed out, the one sole and lonely member of the Cabinet in almost 50 years in Constance Markievicz. I have two proposals that I would like women to focus on. One is...