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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: I do not know if the Minister is aware of the trauma that the near collapse of the Rebuilding Ireland scheme has caused people, after having made six month or eight month applications to some local authorities. In Fingal the waiting time was six or seven months. The Minister is totally out of touch. I asked him about soldiers because they serve their country, yet we have lost 20% of them...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Staff (9 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of additional customs officials of the Revenue Commissioners who have been hired; the number that will be in place by 12 April 2019; the locations and offices to which the additional staff have been posted, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16088/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (9 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí and community police stationed at Blanchardstown Garda station, Dublin 15; the comparable figures for each of the past eight years; the number of gardaí that have retired from the station; the number of retired gardaí that have yet to be replaced at the station; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (9 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of senior gardaí allocated to community policing duties in Blanchardstown Garda station, Dublin 15 at present and for each of the past eight years; the number of gardaí with the rank of sergeant, inspector, chief inspector and superintendent that have been allocated specifically to community policing...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (9 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if continued funding by the school completion programme under Tusla of the school counsellor currently being provided to schools (details supplied) will be committed to; if this vital service for these DEIS schools will not be abolished; if she does not accept the view that such therapeutic services should be cancelled in view of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Museum Projects (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to secure a permanent home for a museum (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16769/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Museum Projects (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: What are the plans of the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to secure a permanent home for the Women's Museum of Ireland, a museum that hopes to educate the public about the contributions made by women to the cultural, political and social history of Ireland and will she make a statement on the matter? However, Members will see that the printed paper in front of them contains...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Museum Projects (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: I ask for help from the Acting Chairman on this point. In all of my time in the Dáil I have never had a question censored in such a way as to fundamentally alter its meaning. This is a question about a programme which has been in existence as a virtual museum for a number of years. I asked if the Minister had plans to find a permanent home for the Women's Museum of Ireland. She has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Museum Projects (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: Many countries have a number of museums devoted to women and various elements of their lives. The National Museum of Ireland has been hopeless on the subject of women. It has a small exhibition in Collins Barracks on Eileen Gray from Wexford who was probably the most famous designer in the early 20th century. In the south of France she built one of the most outstanding houses of early 20th...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wild Fires (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister concerned about the extent and number of forest fires, particularly the disastrous fire that raged in Killarney recently? I ask this question in view of the fact that the Government made a political decision in the Heritage Act 2018 to extend the burning season. What does the Minister intend to do to stop fires of the kind seen this year which resulted in significant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wild Fires (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister had any consultation with local landowners in the area affected by the fire? Has her Department explained to landowners that the widely held view that the recently passed Heritage Act has made it easier to burn vegetation is not based in fact? Has the Minister communicated the fact that she is opposed to such burning and that she views it as a threat? When we were debating...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wild Fires (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: The Minister did not answer my question about whether she had communicated with landowners in the area. That is important, given the weather we enjoyed last summer and the changes in climate we are experiencing. I am sure the Minister saw photographs of the fire on 30 March. It was disastrous and hundreds of acres of land were burned. A solicitor based in Killarney, Mr. Pat O'Connor, who...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wild Fires (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: Of course I am.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: Yesterday two reports on children were published. We have just heard about one of them, on the cost overrun on the national children's hospital and the additional €400 million to €500 million being incurred by taxpayers as a consequence of the lack of management of the project. The second was on a survey and published yesterday by the charity AsIAm entitled, Invisible Children...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: May I ask-----

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: I thank everyone who contributed to the debate here today: the many who agreed with us and those who were critical or in opposition to our motion. People are feeling a sense of total desperation and shame at present that almost 4,000 children are now homeless. As a society, we do not know what the long-term impact of that will be for those children. What disappoints me most about the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Biodiversity Plan (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 25. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to support nature and biodiversity on a cross-Government basis despite recently cutting funding for the National Biodiversity Data Centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16712/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Museum Projects (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 29. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to support a museum (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16716/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 31. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the adequacy of procedures for identifying and protecting architectural heritage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16715/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Built Heritage Investment Scheme Funding (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: 39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to assist owners of registered protected structures that wish to preserve their property but are unable to do so in view of the fact that heritage works cost approximately 1.75 times more than standard repair works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16714/19]