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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent conversation with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May. [6706/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: We are now at ten minutes to midnight. If St. Patrick's week is removed from the 38 days, there are fewer than 30 working days until the UK's withdrawal, assuming that everybody will be working weekends in the lead up to it. The Irish Timestoday said that the British focus is now on legal language which would put a limit on the backstop in respect of content, duration, or both. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings with the major political parties in Northern Ireland. [6705/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Does the Taoiseach see any prospect that powersharing will be re-established in Northern Ireland in the foreseeable future, or did he get the impression that both Sinn Féin and the DUP are committed to not being involved in the Executive and not allowing the Assembly to recommence its work? Was a border poll discussed with any of the parties during the Taoiseach's meetings? Did the DUP...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: A TASC report was issued today, which in a sense is referring to developments in the economy like digitalisation. This is increasingly producing people who are earning significant amounts of money, as well as significant numbers of workers who are on low pay. Some of them are on very low pay and they have few guarantees in their work or work status. Does the Taoiseach believe we should...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: That is after social welfare payments-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: It is gross income that is-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: It is very severe. That is our point.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I would not dream of lecturing the Taoiseach. I would not be able to.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: By 6% or 7%.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the lack of progress on the planning application to Dublin City Council for a permanent school (details supplied) at a location; the steps he is taking to address these needs; the timeline for the delivery of further prefabs and the permanent school building; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Start it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: The Minister is now an honorary Senator.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Why?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: There is a report in the Ireland edition of The Timestoday which I did not think could possibly be true. Perhaps the Taoiseach might clarify the position. The position of Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland will become vacant if, as expected, Philip Lane is appointed as chief economist of the European Central Bank on 21 March. It is reported that the name of a former Fine Gael special...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it will meet again. [8084/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: With the omnishambles of the children's hospital that the Taoiseach and Minister for Health are presiding over, will the Taoiseach tell us how we get a list of the reprofiled projects and spending as a consequence of the savings that he acknowledged have to be made? He brushed them aside by saying it is a mere €100 million. What is €100 million between friends? It is a lot of...

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I appreciate that one of the most embarrassing things a Minister for Finance has to do is come to the House to present not just Revised Estimates but revisions to them. I am sure the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, feels it is not his fault. After all, he gave the Minister for Health €600 million from the back of the sofa for current spending. The country is now seriously questioning...

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: It would also be a breach of the Constitution.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I want to take the opportunity to ask the Minister of State about a serious data breach I read about at the weekend and which deeply shocked me. A story was carried on the front page of The Sunday Times, Ireland edition, in which all of the details of an asylum seeker's stay in Ireland, various applications made and travel between Ireland and other countries were disclosed in detail. This...