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Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: Okay, it is €2.97 billion.

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: The Government has decided that it is so all knowing that it should ignore all of the flashing red lights in this project.

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: The Government should re-evaluate it, reprice it and, above all else and in line with the motion, ensure that this collective investment by the people ends up being owned on their behalf. That is the least that could be expected from a competent Government. I am told that there are further problems with the costing of the children's hospital that we have not heard about in detail yet. I...

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: And no fingers on any button.

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: The income tax section of the Finance Bill, and in the explanatory memorandum, has to be one of the shortest I have seen in any budget. In most years, some attempt is made to index tax bands and allowances to the level of the expected wage increase in the next year. While I accept that the Minister had to act with some caution in respect to Brexit and to give it significant consideration,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: 135. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a proposed school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 with full-time speech and language and occupational therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43678/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Eligibility (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons qualifying under the long-term illness scheme are eligible for training courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43861/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: 298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons qualifying under the long-term illness scheme are eligible for workplace programmes and training courses even if they are drawing credits rather than receiving a social welfare payment; the supports available for persons in this category to assist them in returning to the labour market in circumstances in which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: I thank the witnesses for their frankness up to now. There are, however, many people still badly affected. As well as examining the past, I would like some indication as to what will happen to those still embroiled. I raised with the Central Bank on a number of occasions the circumstances of the Bank of Ireland staff tracker group. In late 2006 and early 2007, Bank of Ireland offered a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: From the documentation supplied, it is difficult to understand why, having reviewed the cases, the Central Bank has accepted that 1,800 people were able to qualify but not 200 other people with approximately the same background, working for the same entity, getting the same material and levels of information and, in particular, starting on the two-year fixed rate mortgage rolling to the staff...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: We will have to postpone it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: I have another question. I accept that the witnesses do not have all the evidence here today, but in the context of what I am aware of in regard to Stop the Harm, this qualifies as a case that badly needs to be reviewed by the Central Bank. I would appreciate Ms Rowland's opinion on why the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman has a greater capacity in this. This dates back to 2006...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: I have a second question on the Central Bank's regulatory role.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: This is very brief and, again, the Central Bank is free to send correspondence to the committee. It is about the Permanent TSB mortgages that have been sold to Pepper. What is unclear for many of the customers is the regulatory status of Pepper and what the rights of the consumers are, given that their mortgages have been transferred to it. I refer in particular to groups of people who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: Terrified.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure last met. [42284/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: What does the Taoiseach have to say to the 600,000 people in north and west Dublin who are again being told they are subject to a boil water notice, having seen the last one less than two weeks ago? On this occasion, people are unlikely to get a lifting of the notice before Thursday. Does the Taoiseach understand how difficult this is for families, particularly those with small babies or...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: People were very taken aback by the Taoiseach's very flippant comments that climate change would make our winters warmer, bring all sorts of health improvements and increase people's longevity. To be honest, one would expect stuff like that in tweets from Donald Trump but not from the Taoiseach. I doubt that many people on the island of Ireland would agree, given the kinds of storms we have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: We ordered them for the fourth time.