Results 38,881-38,900 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: ——about the location of the new offices of the Office of the Minister for Children? I invite Members to guess where this new Government department will be located. When decentralisation programmes were successfully pursued by other Governments, including Governments in which the Labour Party successfully took part, there was a principle that new institutions being created should be...

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Can the decision to locate a new department in Dublin 2 be deemed to be decentralisation?

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: It is a farce.

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: The Minister should ask the Taoiseach the same question.

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: He is telling people on the doorsteps——

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach acknowledges——

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: They are all for Dublin 2.

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Why is the Office of the Minister for Children being located in Dublin 2?

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Can the Minister answer that?

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Why is it being located in Dublin 2?

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Why is it going to Dublin 2?

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether an all-party review of decentralisation is required in the national interest to conform more closely with the recommendations of the national spatial strategy and take account of the census figures; his further views on the potential loss of expertise and corporate knowledge as a result of the Government's decentralisation...

Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister share the Taoiseach's concern, expressed in recent interviews, that there is no appetite within the statutory agencies for decentralisation? Proof of that is that workers in FÁS are on picket duty today because they find it difficult to accept a policy of so-called voluntary decentralisation that is linked to their promotional prospects. The Labour Party's proposal for an...

School Enrolments. (18 May 2006)

Joan Burton: To date, more than 20 children who applied for places next September have been turned away from St. Ciaran's national school in Hartstown, Dublin West, where overcrowding has reached crisis proportions. An excellent school, it appears to have allocated places on the basis of age. Consequently, all children under the age of four years and nine months have been told there are no places for them...

School Enrolments. (18 May 2006)

Joan Burton: All of them live in Hartstown.

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (18 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will explain the circumstances in which a farmer (details supplied) in County Kildare, who was apparently charged with 59 counts of animal cruelty in 2000, was not stopped from keeping livestock by her Department or not monitored so closely that the recently reported dead sheep on their land might not have had to face such an...

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (18 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the functions which have been delegated to each Minister of State at her Department; the date on which the relevant order was made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18920/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (18 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the locations where the offices of the Minister with responsibility for Children are located; the locations where it is proposed that they be located on a more permanent basis; the number of civil servants who are employed in those sections within the responsibility of the Minister with responsibility for Children ; the...

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (18 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance if the NDFA are covered by the Freedom of Information legislation; if not, when he proposes to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18900/06]

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (18 May 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance the functions which have been delegated to each Minister of State at his Department; the date on which the relevant order was made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18921/06]