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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: The constitutional issue seems to be the major difference between the committee and the Central Bank. Do the witnesses accept that there are competing rights in the Constitution? Do they accept that it is now widely held internationally that shelter is a fundamental human right? That right is recognised in the international convention on economic and social rights. It has also been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: That is a point of view. Is Mr. Tobin suggesting that the Department's point of view is that property rights trump individual, human, family, personal and social rights? There is a very wide constitutional view that those rights have a very significant status. We recognise private property rights but we also recognise human rights in terms of individuals, families and children. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: Yes. Does Mr. Tobin accept the following? Article 43.2.1° states: "The State recognises, however, that the exercise of rights mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this Article ought, in civil society, to be regulated by the principles of social justice." Article 43.2.2° states: "The State, accordingly, may as occasion requires delimit by law the exercise of the said rights...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: The shooting incident at Riversdale community college-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: -----was preceded six or eight weeks ago by similar episodes at the primary school in the Corduff area. Will the Taoiseach commit to Dublin communities, which have been racked by an upsurge in drug crime and which do not have enough community policing? Community policing seems to have vanished. We have lost our community policing inspector in Dublin West after the previous incumbent was...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: That school has a limited counselling service for pupils. The young pupils, their parents and the teachers are terrified because the kids are going to and from schools where there have been shooting episodes. The counselling service has been threatened with withdrawal. Will the Taoiseach undertake to use his office to ensure that the schools in our constituency, such as the one in Corduff,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: I asked about community gardaí.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Citizens Assembly (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for a citizens’ assembly on gender equality. [10602/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Citizens Assembly (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: We would all welcome the Taoiseach's promise in relation to a citizens' assembly on gender equality being established. While women have made great progress in this country, nonetheless there is a lot still to do. This is the centenary of Constance Markievicz becoming a Cabinet Minister, the first such woman, certainly in Britain or Ireland. In terms of gaps, we have the gender pay gap,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the March 2019 European Council meeting and the issues that were discussed. [15145/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: I want to know whether there was a discussion at the summit meeting on the issue of how to protect the Single Market in the event of the emergence of a difficult Brexit. None of us wants any installations or hardening of the Border, as has been said. Nonetheless, the Minister for Finance advised me the other day that there are a total of 210 Revenue customs and excise staff employed in the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: Those goods will have to be checked.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: Businesses in the Republic will be ruined.

Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: On behalf of the Labour Party, I support this motion. The factual information in the motion is self-evident in many of the schools in my constituency. Almost every school has had one or more of the families whose children attend experiencing homelessness, some for short periods of time. Some, for instance, experienced homelessness due to a disastrous fire in an apartment block almost two...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the occupations (details supplied) covered in section 118(3)(a) Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; and the provision of accommodation that is exempt to tax. [15722/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of employees covered by the exemption to benefit-in-kind provided by section 118(3)(a) Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in each of the years 2014 to 2018 by employer activity, in tabular form. [15723/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of the exemption to benefit-in-kind provided by section 118(3)(a) Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in each of the years 2014 to 2018, by employer activity, in tabular form. [15724/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated tax forgone in respect of the largest beneficiary of the exemption granted under section 118(3)(a) Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, in each of the years 2012 to 2018, in tabular form. [15725/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons assessed for benefit-in-kind in respect to their employers providing housing for them over the past ten years to date; the rental costs of such properties on a monthly basis over that period; the highest and lowest rental cost properties, respectively; and the average of the rental cost, in tabular form. [15738/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in relation to the development of a new permanent school building for a school (details supplied); the timeline for the delivery of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15940/19]