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Priority Questions: Cultural Property Inventory (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: Did the Minister discuss this or raise it with the Taoiseach or her colleagues around the Cabinet table? The Minister speaks of not having a pot of gold, but I am sure she is very well versed in W.B. Yeats's contribution to Ireland. The Minister wants to be so crude as to measure in money the value of W.B. Yeats to practically every man, woman and child in Ireland, along with other...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: It would be helpful if the Taoiseach would outline Ireland's strategy in respect of the continuing fallout from and discussion around Brexit. The British position now seems to be that they will leave, hard or whatever way, but that they will leave and will then seek to renegotiate on a single-country basis those arrangements that they had before. It is a version of having one's cake and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: The real position is that there is a serious risk of the Northern economy suffering across the political divide. It does not matter which section of the community is in question. The Northern economy will be suffering. Does the Taoiseach see merit in what was suggested by former MP, Mr. Mark Durkan, namely, using the various mechanisms and structure of the Good Friday Agreement to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: Maybe not enough.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: This is very strange.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: Could the Taoiseach give us some examples?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach said-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: On a point of order.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: On a point of order.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: There is a Public Appointments Service, which the previous Government indicated would be responsible for filling all staffing positions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: They did take the FEMPI cut on the way down.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach would want to expand on what he envisages as the role for this strategic communications unit. As he spoke, I actually felt he was really talking about something like a political propaganda unit because he indicated that the purpose of the unit was to get the good news to the people. Are we going to see the Taoiseach's photo on the side of a bus, announcing to the plain people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: It all sounds like this is PR and spin.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: He has confessed on many occasions to his particular love of the media and, I think, their corresponding appreciation of him. That is well known about him. It is a very good and important attribute in politics; many of us probably wish we had his skill in that regard. The Taoiseach spoke about six people being employed. The head of the agency is a very fine public servant. His salary is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: I want to raise a very pressing issue which involves relatively small amounts of money. It is the situation of hospices in Ireland, in our area of Dublin West, which serves Dublin 15, Dublin 7, much of County Meath and the rest of Dublin, and also the sister service in Raheny under the auspices of St. Joseph's hospice service. When the country was in financial collapse, the staff of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister is too sweet.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: If I may make one general comment at the beginning of my contribution, I am really disappointed that there are no women at the top table of the finance team. In this day and age, I get fed up that myself, Deputy Madigan and a small number of others are very often the only women in the room. I understand that the Minister and his officials as individuals possibly have nothing to do with...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: I understand from the Minister's statements that he will provide for the refund of water charges this year out of current resources. Can he confirm that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: I have seen no indication that he would do otherwise.