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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Data (10 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of accrued pension rights for all serving health service workers up to 31 December in each of the years 2014 to 2018, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41277/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: On Monday evening, Deputies Jack Chambers, Coppinger and I attended a packed meeting of parents, professionals, education providers, the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, and public representatives in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, representing people from Dublin 15 and Dublin 7. The committee which called the meeting comprises a group of parents of children...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: The Department has to take responsibility for the education of these children. The parents have no difficulty with the ASD special units. We all know they have done very good work for the children for whom they are appropriate. It must be borne in mind, and this may come as a shock to the Minister, that for the school year 2017-2018 there were, as far as we know, 56 students on the home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank Mr. Masding for his extremely interesting statement. I have questions on some elements of his statement. Perhaps he will elaborate on some of the things he said in his statement. On page 2 of the statement, Mr. Masding offered the example of Customer A who pays the mortgage in full and Customer B who clearly has difficulties. The latter is unable to pay the mortgage in full, on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: Mr. Masding has referenced the Irish State and implied, in a certain sense, that he recognises the social dimension of moral hazard. In other words, it has an impact on the Irish State. Does he agree with me that it affects Irish society?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: I was not the recipient of a Jesuit education. I do not know whether some of the people on the bank's board and so on were. I did not have the benefit of that particular form of education but moral hazard is something that the Jesuits, as an order, have spoken about over a long period. I will set out what I am trying to understand. If this is a moral hazard in Mr. Masding's construct,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: If that happens in the US, which is the home of capitalism-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: -----one can leave the keys in the door and walk away from the obligation in total.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: One loses one's home and it is dreadful, but one does not carry the debt like a hump on one's back forever after.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: When Mr. Masding mentioned earlier - it is on the first page of the document he furnished to the joint committee - that we are "ten years on from the start of the financial crisis", it was interesting to hear him joining many commentators in saying "we are closer to the start of the next one [the next crisis] than to the end of the last one". In other words, the bank is already envisaging...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: Can I ask Mr. Masding briefly-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: There was a very big statement there about the next financial crisis-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: Can Mr. Masding expand on the next financial crisis? It is a striking statement, like the moral hazard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: It is a brief question and follows from some of the points raised. First, we have been advised that the average loan value in the context of our discussion today is €175,000. Second, we have been advised that the average arrears time of the loans is three and a half years. Third, we have been advised that the average arrears value is €28,800. The bank is telling us this is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: Is that by order of the Central Bank?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recently published report of the interdepartmental group on security of Ireland’s electoral process and disinformation. [39903/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: I think every party in this House would welcome the establishment of an electoral commission as soon as possible. The report references the online dangers that may well exist in regard to our electoral system. I also want to raise with the Taoiseach the electoral register which was recently published and made available to public representatives. This year the Dublin local authorities...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the north east inner city initiative. [39679/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: Notwithstanding the good work being done by the initiative and the forum, much of the north inner city has too many derelict sites. While student accommodation blocks are flying up and being built, completed and opened within 18 or 24 months, too many families feel a level of helplessness and hopelessness about the fact that relatively few completely refurbished homes or new builds are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach do something about that? I am referring in particular to boosting significantly the number of apprentices, who would then be available to build the houses that we need.