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Other Questions: Teacher Training Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to ask the Minister about the plans his Department has to encourage, support and enable people who may have expertise in STEM subjects, including mathematics and science, and what proposals, if any, his Department has to encourage people who may want to transfer from those areas to becoming primary or secondary teachers. The current requirements mean that people who want to transfer -...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the continuing delay in the rebuild of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14558/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I ask the Minister to outline the reason for the exceptionally long delay in rebuilding St. Patrick's senior and junior school in Corduff. I have raised this matter five or six times since the Minister's appointment. The project is going backwards rather than forwards under his tenure. The school was recently informed it will take an additional period to even reach stage 4 of the building...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Not long after he was elected, the Taoiseach was in a building adjacent to the school where he gave a commitment to giving some priority to the school. Incidentally, the proposed new school was approved by the Department in 2010. Is the Minister listening?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: What the school has been told is not delightful but potentially disastrous. It must reapply for planning permission and it has been informed that the costs of the project have increased by 61%. If some of the funding the Government has been lashing around for the strategic communications unit had been spent on schools such as St. Patrick's, the new building would probably have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: On his visit to the area last year, the Taoiseach indicated construction would commence shortly. Did that statement not mean anything? Is the Minister aware that the school is located in the area with the highest population growth in Ireland and probably western Europe? Under the previous Government, school after school was built and many of them experienced horrendous difficulties as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools using tablet devices (details supplied) in the classroom; the number that have stopped using these devices in the classroom due to control issues; the problems primary schools have experienced in respect of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14422/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Professional Development (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide continuous professional development for second level teachers in respect of the teaching and learning of computer science at second level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14419/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Severe Weather Events Response (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures and policies his Department has in place in respect of making up for lost school days incurred during Storm Emma; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14421/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Data (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 235. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland clients in Dublin and by county; the number in Dublin city, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and south County Dublin; the number in Cork city and County Cork in each of the years 2014 to 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14608/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 236. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created in 2017 by companies that received financial support from the local enterprise offices by county; the number in Dublin city, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and south County Dublin; the number in Cork city and County Cork in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14609/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 237. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the investment by local enterprise offices in client companies by local authority area in 2015, 2016 and 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14610/18]

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Approximately 20 years ago, my very beautiful, lovely, happy, first cousin Marie became ill with cancer of the cervix. After what seemed like a very short period, that is, a couple of years, and an awful lot of suffering which she bore very bravely, she died and left her three boys behind to be reared by their father on his own. This is a very common story of what happens to women,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meeting of the EU Council on 22 and 23 March 2018. [12789/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent meeting of the EU Council. [13574/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Thank you, Ceann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach level with the Dáil as to what work is under way at present on the possibility of a hard border? I know it is something nobody wants, including the Taoiseach, but on the other hand we now have fairly continuous statements, ranging from the somewhat authoritative to the very authoritative, from figures such as the Secretary of State, Mr. Davis, on a technological type...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States of America. [12788/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Governor of Texas. [12790/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Like many people, I was extremely disappointed at the Taoiseach's approach to President Trump. We understand that such visits have to be performed with decorum and that Irish interests are at stake but the Taoiseach indicated, when he was in opposition, when campaigning for the Fine Gael leadership, and subsequently, that he was going to be honest with Donald Trump about our views as a...