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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (26 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: I was going to ask where it was.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (26 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units which have been constructed in the course of the SDZ on the Docklands area in Dublin; the number of affordable housing units; the number of private housing units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18432/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: Can the Minister of State repeat that?

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: I asked about the Charities Regulator. I did not ask about the chief executive officer.

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State saying that the regulator has responsibility for the ultimate decision? I think we need a copy of the Act.

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: It is a sad day for artistic and political freedom in Ireland when a simple mural on the wall of the Project Arts Centre in the centre of Dublin has had to be painted over. I am sorry the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is not present herself as this is very much an attack on artistic freedom. It is a very wrong decision by the Charities Regulator. As I travel to work in...

Topical Issue Debate: Charities Regulation (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: I am taken aback by the content of the Minister of State's reply. There are two sides in a referendum, namely, those who are for the referendum proposal and people who are opposed to it. Voters are free to go to the polls and decide which way they want to vote. We have a situation in which a very one-sided interpretation of the powers and guidelines of the regulator has been effected with...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: People who pass the junction of Gardiner Street and Sean McDermott Street and see the magnificent new student accommodation that was built in under two years will find it hard to believe. I could refer to 12 other locations throughout the city where the same is happening. However, I want to ask the Taoiseach why so little progress is being made in respect of taking on young men and women as...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: It is a bit like Brexit; a bit of fantasy. It is wishful thinking.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Projects (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's work in relation to the Dublin inner city forum established on foot of his Department's Dublin inner city task force report. [17612/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: I wish to bring one other item to the Taoiseach's attention on which I believe there would be broad agreement even from the previous speaker. The year 1919 saw the publication of the Democratic Programme. The author and inspiration for much of it was the leader of the Labour Party, Tom Johnson, who succeeded Connolly. The point is that the Democratic Programme is the basis of the agreement...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: I am sure that, like many people concerned with immigration in Europe, Ireland and the UK, the Taoiseach has been appalled by the story of what happened to members of the Windrush generation who were invited to live and work in the UK from countries like Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean after the Second World War and who have been effectively deprived of most their rights of residency...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, will next meet. [17811/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that World Health Organisation guidelines state that Ireland should have six full-time rheumatology consultants; the steps he is taking to implement the WHO guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18222/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (24 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: It would be very helpful if the Taoiseach could give a simple explanation so that people can understand what fancy terms such as bioeconomy mean. I expect most people do not have a clue. Perhaps people studying science at an advanced level, whether for the leaving certificate or in college would understand it. Regarding the future of Bord na Móna, the way people in Ireland use turf...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (24 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: If it was a hospital, it would be a big number.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (24 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: That is pathetic.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (24 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the progress on filling the vacancies on the National Economic and Social Council. [17614/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (24 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: From the way the Taoiseach approaches the NESC, it seems he has not made up his mind as to whether he wants this body at all or, if he wants it, what it should be doing. There are a lot of infrastructural bottlenecks, as the Taoiseach has been telling us. In particular, the Minister for Education and Skills has significantly slowed the refurbishment of older schools and almost completely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (24 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: Under the original budgetary estimates, €5 million was allocated for the strategic communications unit and we were informed at the time that the unit would have a staff of five. By the time the Government's programme had reached its zenith, the unit employed 15 staff and we had not been given a figure on its expenditure at that point. However, I understand from the Taoiseach's...