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Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: I wish to make one final point on the Tánaiste's comments. Essentially, it is provocative to introduce the Bill at this time, given that the most important officeholder in the country, namely, the Taoiseach, is due to appear before one of these tribunals again shortly.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: I wish to ask the Tánaiste about the arrangements for the budget and the fact that budget day will now include Estimates. I raised this issue with him some time ago and neither he nor his Department has given any indication of what the detailed arrangments will be in terms of publishing along with the budget, a Book of Estimates. Will separate statements be available on the contents of the...

Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: That is an abdication of responsibility.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: On the same issue——

Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Before the budget reform process, output statements are supposed to be published. Is the Tánaiste preparing an output statement on the extra productivity we can expect from members of Government as a consequence of their extraordinary pay increases?

Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Will that be given to the Dáil? Is that in his reform proposal? It is long overdue.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Will the Tánaiste be giving it, because we would certainly debate that?

Written Answers — Local Government Reform: Local Government Reform (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 80: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of applications made by towns for town council status in view of the present examination of local government being carried out by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28680/07]

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Question 77: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Government is planning changes to the law governing financial donations to politicians or political parties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23690/07]

Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: During the last Government the Taoiseach professed himself many times to be committed to regulating and legislating for management companies and agents of apartment blocks and housing developments. We are in a declining property market where many new housing developments and apartment blocks in west Dublin are subject to management companies. Despite the issue being debated here several...

Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: We have a promise from the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: The property services regulatory authority legislation is on the list of Bills, but we are getting nowhere with it. What is the Taoiseach's view at this stage? When is his Government going to address this issue? There is no regulation and young people buying homes are at the mercy of rogue developers who will not put management companies on a proper footing.

Order of Business (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Does that mean that the property services regulatory authority Bill is effectively on ice until this committee has reported? People are being left inlimbo regarding property management companies. In a declining property market, we could do without people's title to their homes being questioned due to the management company relationship to the ownership of common land in the vicinity of the...

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: On behalf of the Labour Party, I join the Taoiseach in expressing our condolences to those families bereaved by the fire in Omagh, as well as to the town itself, which has suffered many different atrocities down the years. I acknowledge the work of the Taoiseach and Tony Blair in respect of the time, effort and commitment they have given to ensure the successful restoration of the Executive...

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: I will move to a different issue. I congratulate the Taoiseach and his Ministers on arriving to work in the Dáil today clean and dry at a time when thousands of Dubliners are out there walking through the rain to work. Some years ago, at the beginning of November 2005, there was an extraordinary Government media blitz when the Taoiseach and an array of Ministers set out the plan for...

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Those people were to come home and find, in the space of five or six years from 2005, public transport transformed in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway. Here we are in November 2007, it is a rainy day out there and many women like me are having a bad hair day because there is no public transport.

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Most people out there are not interested in a jet or a yacht, they would just like to see buses and trains and more Luas trams. What has happened to the plan? The Minister for Transport announced the extension of the Tallaght Luas line to Citywest is to be put back. The Connolly to the Docklands Luas extension is essential to connect up the new Docklands station. I was there when the...

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: Where is the Government on the public transport issue?

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: My question concerned public transport. I would be the first to acknowledge the National Roads Authority seems to have finally got its act together. The changes by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, regarding funding procedures have helped. Not everyone wants to or can drive a car into Dublin city centre, Limerick, Cork or Galway. If we want to do our business as a modern economy,...

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2007)

Joan Burton: They are walking.