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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Much of what the Department did worked but it might have set up a website. Should anything like this ever happen again, maybe the Department should immediately set up a dedicated website.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: May I make a point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: A charge has been made against a former Minister, which I know to be untrue and unreflective. In fact, there is an official here from the Department who may have worked there for some years. If I recall, the then Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, initiated an investigation into practices on sites. I understood Deputy Boyd Barrett to be a fair person but he has not got...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I initiated and got the inspectors in the then Department of Social Protection to visit a range of building sites to check that workers were properly registered for social insurance and tax purposes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Furthermore-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Allegations have been made against somebody who is not here to defend himself. In terms of my general knowledge, Deputy Boyd Barrett is entirely wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: And now he has run away.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I commented because allegations were made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: No. The truth is important, but Deputy Coppinger might not respect that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I have outlined that an inquiry was created.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Into people-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: -----on building sites being property registered for social welfare insurance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: May I comment?
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: To clarify-----
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Is it the case that each spokesperson has three minutes, while the Minister has three of the six minutes? If there is time remaining before the debate concludes, will time be allowed for another round?
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: That is fine.
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Yesterday afternoon at the Joint Committee on Education and Skills, the Minister agreed that he would have an inquiry and I suggested to him that such an inquiry would need to have somebody very experienced and competent in building and technical issues, for example, a structural engineer and-or architect. Furthermore, a reputable senior counsel would also be needed because, as the Minister...
- Apprenticeships: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I am glad this motion is before the House. The issue of the redevelopment and expansion of the apprenticeship system is vital to our future economic success. When I became part of the last Government in 2011 the apprenticeship system had collapsed. In fact, much of my time was spent trying to help people whose apprenticeships had collapsed. The idea was to help them through various...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I welcome Mr. Draghi. Ten years after 2008, does the ECB admit errors in its own conduct after the crash? The IMF, one of the ECB's sister organisations, did and published new guidelines. What of the ECB, not least in its conduct in Ireland, where it was probably the most rigid and most conservative of all three troika members? I appreciate Mr. Draghi was not president then. We are all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Sometimes the next crisis arises from the failure to deal with the current crisis which may not be as big as 2008. Housing and the affordability of a place to live is a factor in many European cities. As Mr. Draghi knows, next Sunday is the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One and I mention the failure to allow people to have dividends in their ordinary lives in the aftermath of...