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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when invitations will be extended from local authorities for the second tranche of LIHAF following the allocation of a further €100 million to the scheme between exchequer and local authority funding; if existing applications under the first tranche will suffice; if not, if local authorities will have to submit fresh...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: Des the Taoiseach have a plan to avoid it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Scottish First Minister, Ms Nicola Sturgeon, on 6 October 2017. [44891/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: Recent analysis suggests Scotland would lose €30 billion as a result of a hard Brexit. It would be reasonable, given the size of the two economies, to suggest the Republic of Ireland could suffer a loss of approximately half of that in the event of a hard Brexit. Northern Ireland's losses could be proportionately as high and well in excess of €5 billion, perhaps up to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach will be aware that several schools, including some in our constituency - a number of them DEIS schools - effectively required to be rebuilt or remodelled under the schools building programme and, in particular, the schools refurbishment programme. The plans have been submitted. I understand that in many cases, contractors fell by the wayside given the collapse of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools to be commenced in 2016 and 2017, by county under the school building programme; the number school buildings that were commenced to date in 2017; the amount of capital funding assigned for school buildings in 2016 and 2017; the amount of this capital funding that has been spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the projected yield in the budget for a 0.1% increase in the national training levy was significantly higher than that provided in responses to parliamentary questions and in the political party costings provided by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44708/17]

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: That is because a great deal of the value is now in the cost of land. The developers are trying to recover every cent they lost during the bust. It is our job to make sure they cannot profiteer on the backs of people who need housing and that instead we have a fair playing field for them and also for the young couple, perhaps both working in the Minister's Department, who have built up a...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: I said on budget day it was much ado about nothing because it is a very modest budget. People will be relieved that taxes are not rising. At the same time, the tax increases that have been brought in, while welcome by individuals, make very little difference in the greater scheme of things. I do not know if the Minister has read the ESRI analysis which contains a verdict that by the end of...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: This was discussed in a previous question by another Deputy. I thank the Minister for saying that the publication of the report on bogus self-employment, which I commissioned as a Minister, and on which the Departments of Social Protection and Finance cooperated, including reference to the then Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, is imminent. I have been asking about this for...

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: -----he will never be injured but many who end up with injuries have no social insurance coverage and that can affect them for the rest of their lives.

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps the Revenue Commissioners have taken to identify possible customs posts on the border; the locations that have been examined for these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44757/17]

Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: I take this opportunity to ask the Minister a question I raised with him and his predecessors previously. As Minister for Social Protection, I commissioned a study and review which was to be carried out between the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Finance. I cannot for the life of me understand, unless this has been released yesterday or today, why that study has never...

Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: And bogus self-employment.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: If the Minister is that concerned, he has a very easy remedy that would put all our minds at rest, namely, backdate the introduction of the measures to 8, 9 or 10 October. The budget was brought in on 11 October. If he wanted to, the Minister could even backdate the introduction of the measures to 1 October. It is a fundamental principle of fairness in taxation that those in the know...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: May I respond to that briefly?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: I just want to say one sentence-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: -----to the Minister. There was a time when a previous leader of Fine Gael, Garret FitzGerald, had to seek the resignation of a Fine Gael Minister of State because there was an inadvertent leak of information-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: -----which may have resulted in advantage to some of the players involved. If Fine Gael standards have really-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: That was inadvertent in those days.