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Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Approximately a week ago, the UK Labour Party's spokesperson on Brexit, Mr. Keir Starmer, MP, addressed an all-party meeting in the Oireachtas. He quoted part of what he wrote in an article in The Irish Timesin which he stated:More of the same simply will not do. We need a fresh approach, one that recognises it is only through a combination of a new customs union, a strong single market deal...

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: It was discussed on "Love Island".

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Learner Protection Fund (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the recognised schools that will be exempted from paying into the proposed learner protection fund with regard to the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018; the criteria a school must reach to gain recognition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38335/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements when he attended the United Nations in New York. [30086/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the foreign visits he will undertake from September to December 2018. [30088/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he has planned with heads of government and heads of state over the next six months. [38649/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee F, national security, last met. [30675/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Did I hear the Taoiseach correctly in saying the committee met last February?

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: With all the difficulties besetting the Garda and given the important matters of national security, as well as Brexit issues, I find it unusual that such an important committee would meet so infrequently. We could also bear in mind that we have had a change of Garda Commissioner, among other changes in the Garda. I ask about the long-standing discussion about how national security be...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: What about on national security-----

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with his Austrian counterpart since Austria assumed the EU Presidency. [30676/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A (economy) last met. [37047/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Pope Francis during his visit to Ireland in August 2018. [37048/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I am conscious that we are meeting in the week of the tenth anniversary of the bank guarantee. In this context, is the Minister's Department seeking or has it sought to recruit consultants with a view to reviewing bankers' pay? Their current limitation, I think, is around the €500,000 mark. I understand there has been some avid pre-budget lobbying on the part of bankers to stress...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Have we learned anything? I am aware of the L'Oréal principle - it is because they are worth it - but does the Minister really think these people in sharp suits are worth €500,000 a year each? I am outraged that the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform between them would literally turn their backs on any learning we might have had from the time when the boom...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Excuse me. When I sat around the Cabinet table, I insisted-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I do like to be reminded of it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister propose to compensate people on social welfare for the impact of the proposed increased carbon taxes, which would hit people on social welfare, particularly pensioners, extremely hard? Does this in effect mean we can anticipate that everyone who receives a weekly social welfare income will see a €5 a week increase? I cannot see how the Minister can do less than that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I have one further brief question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to raise an issue I have raised with both the Minister and the Taoiseach on a number of occasions, that is, the question of the section 39 hospice organisations. As he will be aware, hospitals recruit on a particular basis. Hospital staff of various grades have been the beneficiaries of the pay restoration, which was initiated when I was in government. However, the hospices recruit...