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Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: We will send ours on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Did the Taoiseach miss it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: The strategic communications unit should send them on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I apologise.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his contribution at the most recent informal EU leaders' meeting regarding the EU budget after 2020. [11543/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I welcome the Commissioner to Dublin and Ireland. I understand a hard Brexit would leave a €200 million per week gap in the European Union's budget. Essentially, it would make a major hole in the Commission's budget. On the options being examined, can the Commissioner tell us how it is proposed to fill the hole in the budget? He has talked about increasing the contributions made by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I am sorry but I had to attend a debate in the Dáil Chamber.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: As I have not listened to the interview, I am unaware of the remarks to which the Taoiseach refers.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: On a point of information-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach has made assertions about an interview I have not heard. I made my views clear on terms related to Nazism and------

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: That is the Jesuitical explanation.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: Yes, I think we should.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to reply to what the Taoiseach has just said. I do not know how much he has thought about what he said but I do not think what he said does any honour to this House or to the many people in it-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: I am talking about what the Taoiseach said here, in this House. As somebody who has been the victim of the most atrocious assault and slander on social media, for the Taoiseach to suggest to me that I would countenance, for one moment, other people from any party or none behaving in an inappropriate way in the course of debate to other people, I can say that I do not do that and have never...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: I said that it is unethical. I stand by that. The Taoiseach crossed the line of what is appropriate.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: If Mediaforce was the company that placed these advertisements, who in the Department signed off - as the client of Mediaforce - on behalf of the Government? Can the Taoiseach confirm that the strategic communications unit plans to place advertisements on every local radio station throughout the country? How much money is to be spent on these? Lots of people have told me there are...

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

Joan Burton: On an earlier point, I heard the Minister for Health say he has formally withdrawn the proposal about the name Phoenix Hospital for Children. I suggest to the Taoiseach that this hospital be called after Dr. Kathleen Lynn, a veteran of 1913, 1916 and also the founder of the first infants hospital, St. Ultan's in Charlemont Street. There are no women who were involved in the revolutionary...

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

Joan Burton: In relation to-----

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

Joan Burton: Well I am sure the Taoiseach was talking about culture with the President of Italy; how women participate and are named and publicly honoured is a really important part of culture.

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

Joan Burton: As the Taoiseach is, I am sure, aware Italy has quite a good record in that respect.