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Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 138. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of his Department in relation to his plans to assist in the funding of the proposed transfer of the Rotunda Maternity Hospital to Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; if he has met with the board of management of the hospital regarding such a move; if his Department has conducted a population analysis of the Dublin 15 area and examined the expected future...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if he has examined a report by a person (detail supplied) that warned that if overcrowding continues it is only a matter of time before more infectious outbreaks occur; his plans to address the issues raised in the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48358/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Television Licence Fee (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the future of the television licence fee system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48344/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [47390/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: Like many people in the Oireachtas, I have been out canvassing and campaigning on the north and south sides of Dublin in advance of the upcoming by-elections. In Dublin Mid-West, since campaigning for the by-elections began less than four weeks ago, a man was killed in horrific circumstances and the car in which he was found was blown up in a fireball. This happened in Lucan. The Taoiseach...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Data (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 131. To ask the Taoiseach the remittances from Ireland, net and gross as appropriate, to countries around the world in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019 in tabular form. [48338/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Retention of Records Bill 2019: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I thank all those who came in today to lay out the facts that are known to many people but not necessarily to everybody. Essentially the witnesses are recommending not proceeding with the Bill. The advice given by successive Attorneys General has been that a promise was made and a commitment was entered into at the time the then Minister for Education and Science, Michael Woods, did a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Retention of Records Bill 2019: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I have one short supplementary question. Perhaps Ms Crowe might be able to answer it. The threat to people who are in government was that if there is not some legislation like this, the imperative would be to destroy the records. There has been a genuine fear on the part of many, given what people with particular views in this area have done in the past. Does Ms Crowe think realistically...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Electoral Process (27 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the role his officials had in the interdepartmental group into regulating transparency in online political advertising. [48842/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagement with the DUP. [47391/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: The ESRI's budget assessment was that the budget was regressive and significantly likely to adversely affect people on low incomes and social welfare recipients. I note in this paper the ESRI expects the impact of a more difficult Brexit to be borne more significantly by people on lower incomes than any other category in Ireland. Does this mean that our guests anticipate that, unless there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: The ESRI referenced the fact that for people on modest incomes, the forecast increase in wages was likely to be 2% to 3% but it was closer to 3%. It noted that if tax bands, allowances and so on for people, particularly on lower incomes, had not increased, that would have been a tax hike on people on lower pay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: The ESRI has a figure here for €892 and €1,360 as the likely cost to poorer households. When one adds that to the budgetary impacts in terms of welfare and of no indexing of tax allowances and no indexing in any way of welfare allowances, both impacts are not too far away from each other, so it is a fairly big combined hit to poorer households.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: Coming back to earlier comments, which I do not think anybody could contest, about there still being physical checks on the border between the EU and Turkey and about Switzerland and Norway, Turkey is in the customs union while Switzerland and Norway are in the Single Market. It was just said that it is going to be difficult to have an exit of the UK from the customs union and Single Market...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: We have experience of this in terms of our economic history. Let us say one is in business in Sligo and one is extremely law-abiding, but there may be other operators and businesses in the town that are less picky. What happens along the Border region is that the businesses that would like to be law-abiding are simply undercut to a very significant degree by the businesses that might not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: There have been frequent references in the current UK Prime Minister's speeches, both when he was elected Prime Minister and subsequently, about the development of a string of what are called freeports in the UK, and there have been three locations spoken about in the North, namely, Derry, Belfast and Larne. Does the ESRI have any experience of how this kind of freeport arrangement would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I turn to labour standards. We have a minimum wage and there is something of a movement to the introduction of a living wage, for which we have structures. Is Dr. Lawless concerned that that could be put under great pressure by the type of Brexit deal that has been discussed? Some of the more recent discussions have been associated with a race to the bottom in respect of labour standards...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Biotechnology Industry (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: The constituency I share with the Taoiseach has seen the investment of billions of euro in plants in the Dublin 15 area which manufacture biological drugs. They are at the cutting edge of modern medical treatments which are particularly important for children with rare conditions and diseases. Regarding the bioeconomy, we know clean air is critical to the wellness of both adults and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the EU and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [48843/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: The new European Commission has been sworn in. We note that one of the Government's own Deputies is taking up a job with it despite serious questions over his use of fobbing in the House and whether the Taoiseach is standing over his appointment as an employee of a member of the Commission. Dr. von der Leyen has stated that her Commission is going to pursue an agenda of change,...