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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2018 (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for reforms to improve household incomes to ensure indexation of budget changes in taxation changes in future budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44788/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue anticipated from the increase in stamp duty in 2017 and each of the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44789/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2018 (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance the advice he received from the tax strategy group in advance of budget 2018; if he will publish the advice he received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44790/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stamp Duty (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance the definition of commercial property transactions for stamp duty as increased in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44791/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review household insurance policies in view of the losses suffered by businesses and households as a consequence of Storm Ophelia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44792/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in securing a site for a school (details supplied); the location of the site now under active consideration for the new school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the electrification of the Maynooth commuter rail service; the estimated cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44655/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated to the DART expansion programme for the Maynooth line out of the additional capital funding of €680 million announced recently; the precise works that will be carried out on the Maynooth line up to 2021 in relation to the DART expansion programme; when he envisages that the DART will operate on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the planning work which has been carried out on a new orbital motorway for Dublin to relieve the growing congestion on the M50; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44656/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commencement of Legislation (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 363. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the commencement of all sections of the Adoption (Amendment) Act 2017, in particular the adoption of a child by their step parent without the requirement for the child’s other parent to adopt his or her own child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44670/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for reforms to improve household incomes to ensure indexation of budget changes in welfare changes in future budgets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44788/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Credit Unions (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress his Department has made with EUROSTAT in respect of allowing credit union investment of surplus funds in social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44753/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (17 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of claims made by companies for correlative adjustments in each of the years 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of claims for correlative adjustments conceded by the Revenue Commissioners; the value of the tax involved in those claims; the amount of tax involved in each of the three largest cases in respect of the number of claims made...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (17 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of refunds arising from correlative adjustments made in 2017 and likely to be made in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43428/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (17 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax at risk in respect of all open claims for correlative adjustments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43429/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tenders will be invited for a project (details supplied) in view of the fact that planning permission was granted on 27 July 2017 for the new Educate Together school in the area and the final grant of approval issued on 12 September 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43299/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has received the tender documents for a school (details supplied); when approval will issue to invite tenders for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43300/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the stage 2B cost check for a community college (details supplied) has been submitted to his Department for approval; if tender documents have been submitted for approval; when sanction to seek tenders will be approved; when he expects construction to commence on the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43302/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the tender documents and stage 2b documentation for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43303/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Forensic Science Ireland Laboratory (12 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if tenders have now been invited from contractors for the construction of the new State forensics laboratory in Celbridge, County Kildare; if so, the date on which they must be returned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43301/17]