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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (12 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: 718. To ask the Minister for Health if a new state-of-the-art primary care centre will be provided in Maynooth, County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24833/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Sports Policy Framework (12 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: 1078. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to publish the promised review of the national sports policy; his plans to reintroduce the local authority swimming pool programme as part of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24825/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (12 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: 1269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons born in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 who had reckonable earnings for social insurance purposes within gross income groups (details supplied) based on P35 returns for 2017, in tabular form. [25635/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (12 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: 1270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons born in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 who had reckonable earnings for social insurance purposes within gross income groups (details supplied) based on P35 returns for 2016, in tabular form. [25636/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (12 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: 1271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons born in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 who had reckonable earnings for social insurance purposes within gross income groups (details supplied) based on P35 returns for 2015, in tabular form. [25637/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (12 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: 1302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when applications will be invited from local authorities for the second tranche of LIHAF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24826/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (12 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: 1330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of clerks of works by local authority in tabular form; if his attention has been drawn to the concerns about the operation of the building control regulation system; if additional clerks of works will be recruited to deal with the growth of the residential construction sector of the economy; and if he will make a...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)

Joan Burton: I wish to raise the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. I have been speaking to a number of adopted people who, as is their human right, are looking for information about their birth including their birth certificates. They cannot get them because all the power lies with the adoption societies and their inheritor, Tusla. One women in her 30s has thought long about this and wants...

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: We have had an interesting discussion. It is a question of how to recognise the constitutional right of people to their religious affiliations or none. In effect, the Labour Party's proposal is to use the Citizens' Assembly model to have a discussion based on a representative sample, as was done successfully in respect of marriage equality and repealing the eighth amendment. This is an...

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: We need to have a national discussion so that all views can be taken into account. What are the Minister's views on that suggestion?

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: I made a comment already.

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: I ask the Minister to clarify how schools will be advised as to how this will operate. Will the Minister agree to provide schools with the additional resources? At present, if pupils opt out, often they go somewhere, such as a library or, worse still, maybe to a corridor, or they sit at the back of the class. Parents affected by this have made it clear that they do not want their children...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State would need to get his hard hat on.

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: The voids are building up again, Minister of State.

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: Dublin City Council is overflowing with them.

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: Ireland's housing crisis could last for another decade unless the Government takes a range of measures to speed up the supply of affordable homes and social housing. Other than dealing with Brexit, it is the largest and most pressing public policy challenge that Ireland faces. If people were honest about this, then we might be able to develop a solution which would actually work and produce...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: I do not think myself or Deputy Ellis are good at drawing but we could show the Minister on a map where he could put this housing. There are 2,000 extra homes. However, there are many other sites in all of the Dublin county areas, as well as in other cities and large towns around the country, which are zoned residential but which are awaiting pre-construction servicing. This is one...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests his Department has received to date in 2018. [21442/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the commitment in A Programme for a Partnership Government on political reform. [21443/18]

Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (29 May 2018)

Joan Burton: My constituency of Dublin West is one in which school provision has expanded rapidly to cater for the significant increase of recent years in the number of children at primary and secondary levels. As the Minister is aware, the practice in Dublin West has been for the Department to offer ASD units at the time of a new build or, in many instances, a substantial rebuild. The schools have been...