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Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: A national treasure.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a date has been established for the commencement of the construction of a school (details supplied); the length of time the construction will take; when he expects the new school to open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49504/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the construction of a permanent school (details supplied); if the discussion on the site location on the Phoenix Park racecourse adjacent to a club is completed; if he will sanction the purchase of the site; when the permanent school is likely to commence construction; and when he expects the permanent school to open. [49508/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the studies he has undertaken in respect of population growth in Dublin 15 and the adjacent Navan road area of Dublin 7; if his attention has been drawn to the demand for places in second level schools and that many children in the catchment area and attending feeder primary schools are not receiving places in the local secondary school and are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore full parity in respect of teachers’ salaries in respect of staff recruited on the lower pay scales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49506/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the demand by parents in Dublin 7 and 15 for an ASD special school for children with high level of need; his plans for the school particularly in the context of the large population of the area and the many children affected and unable to receive a full educational provision; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact on the national development plan of recent disclosures of serious problems in respect of the publicly contracted building projects, including schools; the amount of extra funding required to repair buildings; the impact of same on the overall spend on the national development plan; if he plans an additional supplementary estimate to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: What kind of amendment would be acceptable to the Department that would focus on cost comparisons, information in respect of other European countries and comparative cost details? After all, the Central Bank is part of the European system of banks. The problem with Central Bank reports is that from the point of view of ordinary people, many of them are inevitably highly technical. Would...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: How do we know that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to ask the same question about this section. What amount of information will the public - ordinary consumers - be given regarding this section? If we are setting up a database under which we will eventually have anonymised data, I cannot understand why it would not be part of the Central Bank's function to put information about what has been gleaned into the public domain regularly,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister of State give us a copy of his detailed note because we only recently received information about this amendment? It has been customary for Ministers for Finance to provide detailed notes if Members request them. We received the text of the amendment at short notice. This is potentially a very big change. Did the Attorney General give advice on it? It is a very overt...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: From historical experience, the deterrent to fraud is the capacity to investigate it and for the perpetrators of the fraud to be prosecuted. That is the critical issue, whether we are talking about company directors or bankers misbehaving or fraudulent insurance claims. I do not understand why a structure that allows action has not been developed. We hear all the time about cases where a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Is the Taoiseach aware that there are children as young as six who are being excluded and, in a number of cases, expelled from primary school in the early years? A high proportion of the children so excluded or expelled are affected by autism and have behavioural issues in addition. In the Dublin region, there are seven special schools dealing with the children with a high level of need....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Has the Government done anything about the issue of the university seats? The referendum on the matter was so long ago that many people do not even know there was one.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: The one on opening the university seats franchise to all universities and colleges of higher education in Ireland.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: In the context of the upcoming general selection, which will be followed by Seanad elections, is there any proposal from the Government to extend the Seanad franchise to graduates of all third level institutions?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: It was in the mists of history.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: No change.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: The European Union was established to end all wars on the Continent of Europe and it has been, with a number of exceptions, remarkably successful. Everybody who identifies with the European Union is very conscious of that. Irish neutrality, as a concept and a policy, owes its origin to the slaughter of Irish men, and it was mostly men, in the First World War, who signed up for a variety of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: It is.