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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the shortage teachers training to teach STEM subjects and the difficulties in encouraging qualified graduates to pursue a career in teaching these subjects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51810/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses Availability (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if PLC education in Dublin 15 will be provided; his plans to make sufficient PLC places available to persons in Dublin 15 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51812/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Applications (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for his Department to advise schools that applied to the minor works grant scheme in 2017; when the grants will be issued in order to ensure that vital repairs and upgrades can proceed in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51811/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of rebuilding works at a school (details supplied) that were due to commence in 2016 and have now been deferred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51813/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Data (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have applied to Caranua for support; the number of applications that have been granted each year since its establishment to date in 2017; the number and value of awards given in each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52125/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: RTÉ Staff (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to concerns by music lovers regarding the ongoing downgrading and shrinking of the RTÉ orchestras; his plans to preserve the orchestras and bring them up to the full staffing level required (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52149/17]

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister has made a sensible decision to accept Deputy Calleary's amendment as we need the information. While we need the facts and figures, as I stated before the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, came into the Chamber, we also need to look to the future and not just to the past, particularly in areas such as education and health. The key point in education is we are beginning to experience...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: I support Deputy Dara Calleary's amendment. A great deal of the focus in this debate has been on the past but if one wants to talk about education in a serious way, one has to talk about the future. It is the future of all children and young adults who are students. The world in which they hope to make their way has to be taken into account. The purpose of education is not only to allow...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on Cabinet committee A - economy. [49177/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: The country is taking a reputational hit in two areas of the economy. The first area, precarious jobs, makes a mockery of the republic of opportunity and highlights the Government's failure for months to publish the report on bogus self-employment. The second area, corporation tax, is causing serious reputational damage to the country. The Revenue Commissioners admit that certain large...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Constitutional Amendments (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans in respect of constitutional referenda in 2018. [51729/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Lending (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of credit unions operating under lending restrictions; the number of credit unions with restrictions on lending to persons; the aggregate monthly lending in bands of €10,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51475/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding substitute teachers in STEM subjects; if his Department has encountered difficulties securing sufficient substitutes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51769/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has discussed with the Teaching Council to fast-track the qualification of suitably qualified graduates, for example engineers, to qualify as teachers in STEM subjects both in terms of filling vacancies and contracted substitutes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51770/17]

Other Questions: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: My concern is that this mechanism is not as widely available as it should be. My understanding is that much of it is available through the pillar banks and that, as in the case of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, to some extent, there does not seem to be any great desire to advertise the take-up to SMEs. The interest rate quoted by the Minister is relatively high by European...

Other Questions: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: -----he should utilise this measure.

Other Questions: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister said in a reply to me yesterday that he did not anticipate legislation on home building being brought before the Dáil until some time in the new year and that home building finance Ireland would be set up later in 2018. That is part of my concern because that means that it will be the guts of another full year before it is fully under way because it will have to establish...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Funding (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I made an arrangement with the office of the Ceann Comhairle to take the question on behalf of Deputy Kelly.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Funding (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Yes.

Other Questions: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: What funding is available through SBCI and how much of it is going to small and medium-sized businesses as opposed to bigger businesses?