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

Joan Burton: This is an important issue. People are dying in all the cities and we cannot sort it out.

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

Joan Burton: The WRC process is under way. The hospices are not part of that because the people they recruit are members of nursing bodies, doctors' unions and other unions related to health service staff. That means that currently, as I understand it, most recently from the lead SIPTU negotiator, a broad framework offer has been put on the table by the Government, which I believe has been welcomed by...

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

Joan Burton: Is this not so different from the bankers?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to raise the issue of the comment by a public official on the cost of public procurement and the time public procurement takes in the context of a housing project in Dublin that will cost nearly €500,000 per unit.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State is going to have to enlighten us all because he is in charge of this. Would it take, in the context of the housing emergency, eight weeks to get a proposal ready on the part of a county council? In terms of the Department, which has a lot more staff and expertise, would that take about six weeks? Could the Minister of State tell us if it is his view that his...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Fifty nine weeks.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Mr. Brendan Kenny, the deputy chief executive of Dublin City Council, is well regarded by everybody who has an interest in housing over a very long period of time. He has suggested - I would seriously listen to him even if the Minister of State wanted to give him a kicking - that the cost for procurement is approximately €300,000 in the way the Minister of State's Department is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: If we all get pen and paper, I am sure we could merge and blend some of these steps. There was a time when Fine Gael' slogan in an election was to burn all of the quangos. Now, Fine Gael resorts simply to bureaucratic gobbledygook. There are people who know all about building and all the Minister of State is talking about are steps, and then he falls back on it being DEPR's fault. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: What about Dominick Street?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I did not say he did.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister have plans for a funding vehicle for credit unions to invest in social housing provision through, for instance, approved housing bodies in the context of the Central Bank having indicated it will allow credit unions to invest in such social housing provided the Department creates a suitable funding vehicle?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State suggesting credit unions are now able to invest in the provision of social housing through approved housing bodies? How many credit unions are now able to do that? I am sure the Department monitors this. It is a really good social development and it would be a very good provision for co-operative-type of housing developments, like the Ó Cualann development, to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Zero.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Union Lending (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Has the Cabinet sub-committee on this issue met? Has the Government brought together the Department of Finance, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and the credit unions? To be honest, the credit unions are being treated like "pass the parcel". They are going to the Central Bank, which has given the okay after a lot of consideration, and they are going to the...

Prohibition of Fur Farming Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: It is a requirement.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (2 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: It is in a mess. I was there about three weeks ago.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: It is the same as Question No. 107.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett. Question No. 10 in my name is about the same matter. This is part of the heritage of every Irish person. It is a place with which people are very familiar. I am certainly very familiar with it since I was first brought there as a small child. What I am really upset about is that "private property" signs, as I am sure the Minister is aware, have begun...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (2 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: -----meet representatives of Mountaineering Ireland who, on behalf of all of us, have been custodians of this area? Is anybody willing to meet them?