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Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: This concerns information and truth as well. On Transport 21, I received an answer from the Minister for Transport last night on the location of the new station at Spencer Dock. I discovered from his answer that it is to be located north of Sheriff Street — Spencer Dock is, in fact, on the quay, which is why it is a dock — and that people who will get the privilege of using this will now...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Bear with me, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. They will have to walk more than 800 metres to access the pedestrian footbridges to the south city or walk a quarter of a mile to Connolly Station. What is included in the Estimates for this Spencer Dock development? The Opposition, unlike the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, who has an open door——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: We were not invited to this launch but the Minister appeared in a hard hat in the newspaper in some unknown location——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: ——that we now find out is north of Sheriff Street. The late Deputy Lawlor often upped the addresses of areas so that, rather than perhaps being in Clondalkin, they became Lucan. There will now be a railway station north of Sheriff Street which is to be called Spencer Dock and the docklands.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: What Estimate has been provided for the station?

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: The Minister also acknowledged——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: I have been down there and it is north of Sheriff Street.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: The Minister does not even know.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Where was the Minister's photograph taken?

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Was it on some site or was it just a recycled photograph?

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: That is what people from Clonsilla must put up with — a train station north of Sheriff Street and then a mile-long walk into town.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Of course we want it but we want it going to Connolly Station——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: ——and we want it going to Westland Row. We do not want people walking miles to finish their journeys.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Sheriff Street has just been called Spencer Dock.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: He is not elected.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: It is getting worse.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social and Family Affairs made repayments a number of years ago.

Job Protection. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a draft report prepared for the National Economic and Social Council by the International Organisation for Migration, which warns of the lack of effective policies and thinking to protect the employment prospects of local workers in a less favourable economic environment; his response to...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the serious concern expressed by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions regarding recent data from the Central Statistics Office, which showed that 43% of employees who worked overtime in 2004 did so without payment; the steps he intends to take to stop such exploitation of workers; and if he...

Defence Forces Recruitment. (28 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to figures showing that Ireland's level of strength of women in the Defence Forces at 3% is well behind the 15% average throughout members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the 25% rate in the US military; when he will introduce new measures to encourage female recruitment to the Defence Forces; and if...