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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach should be able to tell us the cost-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: -----of the cinema advertisements and the other advertisements.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank the Taoiseach for his answer. He said "all media". We heard yesterday that his Government is running advertising in cinemas, presumably directed largely at younger audiences. Does this mean that some of the advertising will also go to TV and radio? We need a clear answer on this because the concern, I think, of all Opposition Members is that the distinction between a party in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: I ask the Taoiseach specifically in relation to the Cabinet committee dealing with health and the Cabinet subcommittee dealing with children. In relation to health, it is difficult to understand, in the context of both Sláintecare which the Government has agreed to and the previous plans, what is happening. For example, the 100-bed unit for older people which was promised to be built...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (21 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach tell Members whether the legal text to codify the agreement he made in December, which he described as bullet-proof, is being prepared at present? Can he indicate what observations or requests for changes Ireland has made to the text and to the EU position documents on the proposed transition agreement and future trading relationship? The backstop option was the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (21 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: It did not.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in Dublin 15 are finding it difficult to find a school place in their local educate together national school, which has a waiting list, and are also having difficulties securing a place in the local national school under Catholic patronage in view of the fact their children are not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: Where is the strategic communications unit now?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: We cannot understand the communication. I think we need the strategic communications unit to explain to us what the Taoiseach is saying-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: -----because we do not understand it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: It is a hogwash-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Proposed Legislation (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the legislation under preparation by his Department. [7295/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Proposed Legislation (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: First, as part of the announcements on the national planning framework and the national plan this week, the Taoiseach mentioned the development of a new quango, which I believe is to be called something like the planning and infrastructure agency. I understand that possibly will come under the remit of the Department of the Minister, Deputy Murphy. In the context of a whole-of-Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: That was a mistake. I also saw that one; it was the N17.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: In a recent reply, the Taoiseach said that among the tenders his strategic communications unit has put out is one relating to the development of a Government identity system for roll-out across Government. I thought that the Government had an identity and that this is a democratic republic governed by the Constitution. I do not actually understand the ethical framework relating to this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: What our Constitution requires is that Ireland be a democratic republic. It is not really for a party that has the responsibility of being in power to roll out a Government identity system. Will there be people or places in our republic that will not meet the criteria relating to this system? The other matter to which I wish to refer is the provision of marketing pitch specialist...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: People who read magazines will be familiar with this type of ad. It is called paid information. It is a two-page spread, I am holding it up. The ad is all about Drogheda and it is two pages' worth of paid information. In other words, it is a paid editorial. Everybody in journalism knows what that means; it is one's message that is paid for.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the meetings between staff of the Revenue Commissioners or his Department with staff working for the European Commissioner for Competition, Ms Vestager, between 2 January 2017 and 14 February 2018; the specific issue or piece of legislation under discussion or dispute; the names and grades of the staff representing Ireland at each meeting; the staff...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the reported restriction and limit of the number of children permitted to be enrolled in educate together national schools; the locations in which this restriction is in place; the reason the restriction was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8381/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the space constraints at the temporary site for a school (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the concerns that parents have in relation to the existing site and its capacity to accommodate additional streams; the progress his Department has made in securing a permanent site for the...