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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Data (22 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons born in 1998 to 2001 that had reckonable earnings for social insurance purposes by gross income group (details supplied) based on P35 returns for 2017, in tabular form. [3100/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Data (22 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons born in 1997 to 2000 that had reckonable earnings for social insurance purposes by gross income group (details supplied) based on P35 returns for 2016, in tabular form. [3101/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Data (22 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons born in 1996 to 1999 that had reckonable earnings for social insurance purposes by gross income group (details supplied) based on P35 returns for 2015, in tabular form. [3102/19]

Report of Joint Committee on Education and Skills: Motion (24 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: I thank the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Education and Skills and committee members for producing this very valuable report. When I told somebody today the report was coming before the Dáil, that person, who is on two boards of management, asked me to ask that boards of management and patrons of schools are specifically included in the training opportunities available because...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: As the Taoiseach will be aware, in his and my constituency, Dublin West, there have been meetings of hundreds of parents who have children affected by autism and behavioural disorders. We have put a proposal to Government regarding provision of a special facility for children on the high end of the autism spectrum who, by and large, cannot find places in the ASD special classes because their...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: The Minister for Finance stated that he would raise an extra €100 million-----

Informal Adoptions (Regularisation) Bill 2019: First Stage (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the regularisation of the legal status of persons informally adopted in the State; and to provide for connected matters. Adoption was first introduced to Ireland and regulated by the Adoption Act 1952. There was no lawful adoption in Ireland before 1952. For a period after that date, there was a widespread...

Informal Adoptions (Regularisation) Bill 2019: First Stage (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: The legislation on Brexit will the most important, complex and technical to come before the Dáil for quite a number of years. The only more significant legislation I can recall in recent history is the ill-fated bank guarantee and the NAMA legislation. When we are talking about very complex legislation, if we fail to have adequate scrutiny and understanding of it, we often end up with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it will meet next. [4207/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: I do not think there is any doubt that one of the greatest scandals of this Administration's term is the overrun relating to the children's hospital. People are scandalised by it and how the figures have moved in this extraordinary way. Does the Taoiseach have an upper limit regarding what the hospital is going to cost? Hospitals are often broadly priced in the context of the cost per...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: I did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: On the recommendation of the then Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: So 80% would be landlord-let housing.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: This Bill is what one might describe as virtue-signalling. In other words the Minister for Finance and the Department of Finance want to send out a message that times have changed and that we hope not to go back the time of the bank guarantee when all the parties in the House, with the exception of the Labour Party, voted for this guarantee. It was probably one of the biggest mistakes ever...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his ongoing discussions with Mr. Michel Barnier in respect of the proposed agreement between the EU and UK in terms of Brexit. [49100/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the interactions his officials have had with representatives in Stormont regarding the Irish language Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1580/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the opinion expressed by the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice regarding the ability of the United Kingdom to unilaterally revoke Article 50. [51850/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on increased preparations for a hard Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53143/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the preparations that have been made to address difficulties arising from Brexit for the Government and citizens. [1703/19]