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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Inland Waterways Development (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 1934. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received an invitation to attend the World Canal Conference in Athlone in October 2018; if she will attend same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1531/18]

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister of State had a chance to read the correspondence from the heads of department in DIT? If so, what is her response?

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: This matter has been widely disseminated in the media. The correspondents have expressed their concerns about the process.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: As Minister of State, did Deputy Mitchell O'Connor take an initiative to have it brought to her attention, read it and find out what the contents were? These are very important people in their different institutions. Has no one in the Department interacted with them?

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I accept that.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I understand the Minister to be saying that, legally, this has the effect of being a transfer of undertakings, which has happened from time to time in respect of various public bodies that transferred. My question is on something that does not feature in the Bill and maybe we will come back to it in the new year so I will flag it for the Minister. Does the Minister of State have concerns...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: As someone who worked in the Dublin Institute of Technology for almost 20 years, I wish to recognise and acknowledge all the work that has gone into the proposal to establish technological universities in Ireland by various people in different colleges around Ireland. It is the Minister of State's job to be able to allay people's fears. One thing in the institutes of technology which has...

Appropriation Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Some 4,000 houses were opened up while Deputy Kelly was Minister.

Appropriation Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: While the Minister of State reeled off a list of impressive statistics and amounts, the Government is somewhat in denial about the scale of some of the problems associated with some of these headings, which are deeply worrying to concerned members of Irish society. I will start by referring to housing. I listened to one of the two Ministers for housing we have had in less than two years....

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: As the Minister knows, my correspondence on this has been particularly directed to the hospices. He knows St. Francis Hospice, which serves my constituency and his. The other sources of funding the Minister refers to are the donations of the public in each area to develop, build and rebuild the absolutely vital services for people in the last stages of terminal illness. Not only that, but...

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Last week we in the Dáil passed a Supplementary Estimate for the Department of Health of €195 million, which is additional to the huge extra funding that has been put into that Department over recent years. I do a lot of voluntary work for the hospice, as do so many other citizens. The hospices in Limerick, in Milford, in my area, in Raheny, which is in Deputy Broughan's area,...

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department provides funding to organisations (details supplied) to facilitate pay restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53432/17]

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: This question relates to workers paid out of the public purse, particularly in hospices but also in other section 39 organisations, who voluntarily took pay reductions during the country's darkest hour when the economy crashed. As these salaries are entirely funded out of the public purse, what are the Minister's plans to make a declaration on providing properly for pay restoration for these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank Mr. Byrne for his opening statement on these matters which arise in the context of the Panama Papers. As the chief executive of a major Irish financial institution which has been bailed out by taxpayers, what is his view of the disclosure in the Panama Papers of the widespread tax evasion on which they have shone a light? Does Mr. Byrne have a view on that matter? While he has said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Unless there is a leak as in through the Panama Papers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Times have changed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I asked about the value of the assets but the witness gave the value of the deposits in the statements. There are two other categories listed in the statement, lending and trust services. What is the number of trust services? I know they are historic data but is there an indication of values? I presume that whereas the deposits amount to a very significant figure at €2.4 billion,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Was the view of the bank at the time influenced by the fact that the bank had just relatively recently been rescued by the State with tremendous sums of public money being injected into it, along with guarantees? Was it entirely just about the value of the business or did it come down perhaps to the bank taking a view on the fact that it had very significant deposits offshore which gave rise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Does the witness have the information about the numbers of trusts and the likely value of the contents of the trusts? At the time, Mr. Byrne's bank and others had special sections or subsidiaries dealing with high net worth individuals and families of high net worth. It would be interesting to know how many such trusts there are and what value is wrapped up in the trusts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I am aware of that and I am talking about at that time.