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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: People who pass the junction of Gardiner Street and Sean McDermott Street and see the magnificent new student accommodation that was built in under two years will find it hard to believe. I could refer to 12 other locations throughout the city where the same is happening. However, I want to ask the Taoiseach why so little progress is being made in respect of taking on young men and women as...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: It is a bit like Brexit; a bit of fantasy. It is wishful thinking.

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: It is a sad day for artistic and political freedom in Ireland when a simple mural on the wall of the Project Arts Centre in the centre of Dublin has had to be painted over. I am sorry the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is not present herself as this is very much an attack on artistic freedom. It is a very wrong decision by the Charities Regulator. As I travel to work in...

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: I am taken aback by the content of the Minister of State's reply. There are two sides in a referendum, namely, those who are for the referendum proposal and people who are opposed to it. Voters are free to go to the polls and decide which way they want to vote. We have a situation in which a very one-sided interpretation of the powers and guidelines of the regulator has been effected with...

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: Can the Minister of State repeat that?

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: I asked about the Charities Regulator. I did not ask about the chief executive officer.

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State saying that the regulator has responsibility for the ultimate decision? I think we need a copy of the Act.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that World Health Organisation guidelines state that Ireland should have six full-time rheumatology consultants; the steps he is taking to implement the WHO guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18222/18]

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: With regard to public private partnerships, over recent months I have asked a number of detailed questions in respect of each Department, particularly the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, to identify what Departments have public private partnerships, their value and what they are for. The answers are very interesting. What is even more interesting is that in recent...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (26 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units which have been constructed in the course of the SDZ on the Docklands area in Dublin; the number of affordable housing units; the number of private housing units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18432/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (26 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: I welcome the witnesses back to Dublin. I will come back to the broader tax issue later but I will first speak to a slightly different area. This week we had another event with Ulster Bank and I am asking about consumer protection. Frankly, I do not believe the bank's explanation. European banking is part of the global banking process and there is a massive amount of outsourcing of back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (26 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: To go back slightly, my second question is on digital taxation. In recent times Italy seems to have been having conversations with companies about locating in Italy and thereby creating a jobs base, particularly in parts of northern Italy. The consequence of that, in terms of some of the discussions on the digital tax, is that Italy is going to allow credit in respect of other taxes levied...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (26 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: I was going to ask where it was.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 May 2018)

Joan Burton: Lord Kilclooney, also known as Mr. John Taylor, would be well advised to apologise for the slur that he attempted to cast on the Taoiseach. He is an ardent Brexiteer and has very hot feelings about Brexit but that does not permit him to use the kind of language he used yesterday. That said, the DUP heavily criticised the Taoiseach for his informal visit to Armagh and Down because local...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Project Ireland 2040 Administration (1 May 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach tell us if the Government proposes to have the national planning framework enacted in law? If it does not propose to have it enacted in law, what is the reason? Unless it is enacted in law, there is not a snowball's chance in hell that much of it will be implemented. Inevitably, it will cover the lifetime of three, four or five Governments, depending on how long they...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Project Ireland 2040 Administration (1 May 2018)

Joan Burton: Is there an official policy to ensure all local councillors and Deputies with an interest in their areas can be invited to such events? I asked the Taoiseach about the North because we would not have expected Mr. Jeffrey Donaldson, MP, to get angry about local representatives in the North not being invited to the Taoiseach's event yesterday. He said the way the Taoiseach behaved showed poor...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (1 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the entitlements of persons qualifying for the long-term illness scheme; if provision will be made for persons within this category who do not receive a social welfare payment to be included in vocational training opportunities and employment schemes; if persons qualifying under the scheme can be deemed eligible for workplace programmes and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (1 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made for long-term illness scheme recipients to be deemed eligible for workplace programmes and training courses even if they do not receive a social welfare payment; if this scheme will be reviewed with the objective of making other training supports available for persons within this category; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Banking (2 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 39. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Finance in respect of the public banking investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18909/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the percentage was calculated in respect of his recent statement that 34.5% of teachers are in promoted positions in primary and post-primary schools, respectively by types of promoted posts; the number of AP1 and AP2 level posts which were removed from primary and post-primary schools, respectively during the moratorium on...