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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (14 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of full rate qualified child increases and half rate qualified child increases, respectively, in payment at the end of 2017 to persons on jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance, excluding jobseeker's transition payment, jobseeker's transition payment, one-parent family payment and farm assist, by scheme, by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (14 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has prepared written guidelines for staff and the public on dealing with transgender matters; if they are published; if staff have received training in respect of this; if her Department is participating in or making a submission regarding the review being undertaken in respect of the operation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gender Recognition (14 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has prepared written guidelines for staff and the public on dealing with transgender matters; if they are published; if staff have received training in respect of this; if his Department is participating in or making a submission regarding the review being undertaken in respect of the operation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gender Recognition (14 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 307. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has prepared written guidelines for staff and the public on dealing with transgender matters; if they are published; if staff have received training in respect of this; if her Department is participating in or making a submission regarding the review being undertaken in respect of the operation of the Gender...

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: This morning in Dublin city it was Groundhog Day again in terms of traffic disruption due to the failure to accommodate a really important public investment in the new Luas line. I travelled on a bus to check the timings.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: In going to work all over the city every morning people lose 20 to 30 minutes which has enormous consequences for them and business in the city. The Taoiseach is a former Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, was also Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. Deputy Shane Ross is the current Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: They have not addressed in any way the chaos enveloping Dublin city.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: The Government is simply not addressing this issue.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: We will have a big bells and whistles event tomorrow.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: There will be inadequate funding of public transport. What is wrong with the Government that it cannot address the chaos in Dublin city?

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: I assure the Tánaiste that he did not give any answer.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: The Government seems to be incapable of resolving the issue.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: Deputy Robert Troy's first question about that issue

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: Ten years, is it?

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: That is not an adequate answer. The Government is refusing to address the traffic chaos in Dublin.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: I understood Deputy Mattie McGrath was going to speak for a while.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: I would be happy to hear him speak but the Ceann Comhairle is in charge of the House.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: The Employment (Miscellaneous) Provisions Bill 2017 is inadequate to address what is one of the most difficult and dreadful developments of our age, which is the continuing expansion and growth of different forms of precarious work. To be perfectly honest, this area is becoming like that of tax legislation. In other words, people in HR departments continually review and change work...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 31 January 2018, the number of companies with section 110 designation which have not submitted accounts to the Revenue Commissioners for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7909/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer if alcohol consumption fell by 10%, 15%, 20% and 25%, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7910/18]