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Other Questions: Departmental Priorities (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: In the context of competing demands, an educated and skilled population, as much as low corporation tax, will be a key selling point for Ireland in attracting international investment. Education is the powerhouse that will enable us to continue to attract local and international investment and create well-paid jobs in the economy. The Minister's approach is disappointing, quite frankly...

Other Questions: Departmental Priorities (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: The Minister is giving no hope to-----

Other Questions: Departmental Priorities (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: -----new teaching recruits that they will be brought into line with existing staff who are paid much more than them.

Other Questions: Departmental Priorities (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister had an opportunity to visit schools which are struggling through lack of funding? A number of ongoing changes within schools are causing particular difficulties. In the case of DEIS schools, SENO resources have been reduced, much to the surprise and bafflement of the schools. Second, the position on education and skills, which I raised with the Minister on a number of...

Other Questions: Third Level Institutions (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: Could the Minister of State perhaps deal with people in the property market who are aware of the enormous surge in the prices of practically everything from garden sheds to fine properties? This is an historic property on Cathal Brugha Street and the Minister of State is hiding behind this cloak of anonymity in the context of commercial sensitivity. However, she Minister is accountable to...

Other Questions: Third Level Institutions (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the forthcoming plans to sell three Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT, sites (details supplied) to finance the ongoing development of the new DIT campus in Grangegorman; if his Department has consulted with other educational providers or stakeholders regarding the purchase of the three premises concerned;...

Other Questions: Third Level Institutions (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister aware of the report in the media last week of one of the three DIT-owned colleges being put up for sale as a result of the development of the Grangegorman campus? Originally, it was offered for sale at €15 million a year and a half ago. The offer price has now apparently been reduced to €12 million at a time when property values are going through the roof. I...

Other Questions: Third Level Institutions (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. It is extraordinary that The Irish Timescarried a very large report indicating a price drop for a DIT-owned college off O'Connell Street. It is the newspaper of record and it stated that DIT dropped the asking price to €12 million for a high-profile college adjoining the Gresham Hotel, and it will be offered for sale in two lots. It was...

Priority Questions: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Availability (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister of State for his answer and for taking an interest. However, I did not hear him state that he can provide badly needed and desired further education and training places, which ideally could be restarted in the two schools I mentioned because they used to do them in significant numbers. I assure the Minister of State that among the several thousand local authority houses...

Priority Questions: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Availability (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: I invite the Minister of State to visit Dublin 15, particularly the two schools and the two areas. He made a suggestion originally that, effectively, people would travel to Dún Laoghaire or Sallynoggin. His follow-up suggestions were the Liberties and Ballsbridge, if I heard him correctly. In terms of transport options in Dublin, the fact is a lot of people who have limited transport...

Priority Questions: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Availability (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will agree to the reopening of further education and training being provided by second level schools (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22498/18]

Priority Questions: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Availability (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: The constituency of Dublin West, including Dublin 15, Blanchardstown, Castleknock, Mulhuddart and Clonsilla, has a population well in excess of 100,000, making it far bigger than the cities of Waterford or Limerick. It is one of the largest centres of urban population in Ireland. It does not have a single dedicated post-leaving certificate, PLC, facility. I have repeatedly raised this with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Estimates Process (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: What is the status of the development of the brand "The Government of Ireland" to which a great deal of money was allocated in the previous communications programme? How is it attached to the activities of the Government? I hear on broadcast media regular advertisements for a consultation or an event, involving, for example, people who have been in mother and baby homes and asking them to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Estimates Process (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Revised Estimate for his Department. [21114/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: We need that graph.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the division of responsibilities between his Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in respect of Northern Ireland affairs and the restoration of power-sharing at Stormont. [20058/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: As I am sure the Taoiseach is aware, yesterday four of the party leaders in the North - Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin, Colum Eastwood of the SDLP, Naomi Long of the Alliance Party and Stephen Agnew of the Green Party - issued a statement recognising that the North should remain in the Single Market and the customs union. That was agreed by all four. Over the weekend and in recent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: -----here in the Republic and in the North from the statement of the four party leaders-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: -----there is no appetite for technological solutions of any kind because it does not appear that they can be made to work and that, in any event, they would entail the reintroduction of some form of hard border which, as the Taoiseach has said - we all agree with him on this - we do not want?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 May 2018)

Joan Burton: Like others, I would like to say how brave people like Vicky Phelan have been in dealing with this and related matters. The Taoiseach spoke about the systems the Government is putting in place, some of which sound fine. However, it is very difficult to understand others unless the Taoiseach is more forthcoming with the details of what the Government is proposing. Does the Taoiseach have...