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Other Questions: Credit Unions (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: Can a coalition of willing credit unions establish a body or work collectively to provide mortgages or significant loans relating to, for example, refurbishing houses and making them fit in the context of climate change challenges and lack of insulation? Could a coalition of willing credit unions provide small and medium enterprise, SME, finance? Approximately just 26% of credit union...

Other Questions: Mortgage Debt (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: Would the Minister consider revising the mortgage arrears resolution process, MARP? If an individual or couple have completed one year of the process, a number of banks come knocking on their door and they are back to square one. If people successfully complete their commitments in year one, can the MARP be extended for another two or three years? That would take a lot of people out of the...

Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for his answer. I am glad that he has acknowledged, as the chief financial officer of the State, that he is the lead person on pension policy. During my time as Minister for Social Protection a vast amount of work and consultation, the results of all of which are available to him, was carried out by my Department, with the active support and interest of his own....

Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: While I was in the Department in 2012, I commissioned Ireland's first ever study of pension charges and costs. The supplementary pension will have to be a State system because the charges, both visible and hidden, levied by private institutions have increased since the survey which I requested was conducted. People in their 30s are, we hope, moving to purchase their first home. Much of...

Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance his policy on pensions; his responsibilities in respect of pensions as Minister for Finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4349/18]

Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister aware than only 40% of private sector workers make any provision for their retirement pensions and that many in the private sector will rely entirely on the State pension to meet their income needs when they are in retirement? Whatever happened to the proposal of the previous Government to have a supplementary pension scheme into which people would be automatically enrolled?...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: The position is desperate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: It was just as bad last week.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Hungarian Prime Minister, Mr. Viktor Orbán, on 4 January 2018. [1834/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Mr. Boyko Borisov, since Bulgaria assumed the Presidency of EU on 1 January 2018. [1835/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: I am sorry to tell the Taoiseach about this although he may have some personal experience of it. It has been happening every morning since the new Luas to Broombridge opened. It is a fine development that I strongly supported in government and I am delighted to see it open. However, the centre of Dublin, our capital city, is completely gridlocked every morning. Thousands of people are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: Nothing will change unless the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport intervenes at the Taoiseach's request. Most of the big trams are not arriving – they are late. They are not coming until March. At that point, the whole of the central area will close down. I imagine the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, is familiar with this as well. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it plans to next meet. [3005/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: It is welcome that the Taoiseach visited Óglaigh na hÉireann on its mission abroad. It is very important that the Irish Army receive recognition from the highest level of the Government. In Irish troops' various peacekeeping missions around the world - their mission in Lebanon has been one of their longest - they are recognised as being peacemakers and able to defuse circumstances...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent trip to Lebanon. [3004/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wealth Audit (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his plans to address the over concentration of wealth in a small number of persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4136/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Contract Plans (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the investigations and plans he has in respect of the regulation of personal contract plans, PCPs, and ensuring persons have adequate information on the cost of PCPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4137/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the escrow account for all of the fines levied by the European Commission against a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4138/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions his Department plans to take on foot of the significant protected disclosures by bank staff to the Central Bank regarding the tracker mortgage scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4134/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the public banking investigation undertaken by his Department in conjunction with the Department of Rural and Community Development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4155/18]