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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Community employment is an absolutely vital part of the social employment-social enterprise structure of this country. There are more than 1,000 CE supervisors. They give really valuable and important services to communities in urban and rural areas, particularly in areas of disadvantage. I am sure the Minister would agree that the people involved in community employment as supervisors and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 5 o’clock Deputy Donohoe's reputation is that he is the Minister who dipped down the back of the sofa and found something between €750 million and €1 billion, notwithstanding the information that was given to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. He lashed out the money. Not alone did that happen, but at the Fine Gael Ard-Fheis last week, the Taoiseach was offering...

African Development (Bank and Fund) Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: I hope we will have an opportunity to discuss the amendments in greater detail. This is in the context of the relationship with the International Finance Corporation which is a sister organisation of the World Bank. I recommend the Minister of State read some of the recent statements by Dr. Kim, the president of the World Bank who comes from South Korea, in which he points to the error in...

Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: We will support the motion on the understanding that we will receive a full and detailed briefing before the debate on Thursday. These amendments seem to be innocuous at first glance but, on closer inspection, the period in which one may make a claim will be reduced from two months to one. In the case of genuine claimants, there may be reasons for providing for the longer period. We need...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Advertising Budgets (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the proposed budget for social media advertising in his Department for 2019. [48231/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Communications (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent conversation with Prime Minister May. [48229/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 31. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the French President, Mr. Emmanuel Macron during Armistice commemorations. [48230/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied with the supervision of publicly funded construction contracts; the oversight he provides for such work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49205/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates Process (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the supplementary expenditure estimates he plans to introduce in Dáil Éireann; and the timeframe for same. [49207/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Compliance (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance if the European Commission has been in contact with his Department about ongoing state aid investigations relating to the tax arrangements of companies resident here other than the Commission's completed investigation into a company (details supplied); the number of such investigations to which his attention has been drawn; and the specific issues...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when will the repair of the of the two schools (details supplied) will be completed; the estimated costs for same; if a supplementary estimate will be required to fund repairs; the way in which they will be funded; and when the restoration will be fully completed. [49293/18]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: As somebody who lives beside the park, I must say the OPW has done a good job of clearing up after the visit in what is probably the premier park in Ireland and which attracts a significant number of international visitors. However, I want to ask about a number of matters both in this case and regarding the fact that the park does not receive any money from some enormous lucrative events...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: I am aware of that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: As Mr. McMahon will be aware, there are five or six cafes plus caterers in the zoo and at other points in the park. Many of them are small businesses. In fact, as with the walled garden and the organic vegetables, it is fantastic. I was merely surprised that none of them seemed to have been involved in being preferred caterers, other than being asked to be open. Clearly, when staff and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: There are three hospitals within a stone's throw of the park, namely, St. James's Hospital, which is across the river, the Mater Hospital and Connolly Hospital, which is right next door. I would like the massive expenditure on logistics to be explained. Perhaps it relates to people who may have been suffering serious health issues, but who never arrived.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Did anyone in the OPW consider that this was a very complex way of arranging for family or parish groups that planned to go together to be able to proceed into the park?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: The OPW was not asked for its advice.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Maybe that is-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Did the OPW get any money back from Bloom, Ed Sheeran or anything like that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Does the OPW get accounts from Bloom of its gross revenues from these events?