Results 39,141-39,160 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Written Answers — Benchmarking Awards: Benchmarking Awards (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance the membership and terms of reference of the recently established Public Service Benchmarking Body; when the body is expected to report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7928/06]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the allocations which have been made by her Department in respect of the promised phase two of Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the physical conditions endured by elderly people at Connolly Hospital, including Alzheimer's patients are extremely old and dilapidated; and if...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in respect of units and land at Connolly Hospital, which have apparently been sold or committed to the developer of housing on land formerly owned by the hospital and sold some time ago; if rent is being paid in respect of these units; the amount which has been paid to date; when these units will be vacated;...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has issued policy instructions on MRSA; the number of incidences of MRSA infections in hospitals here; the ratio of infections to patient numbers; the way this compares with other EU states; the procedure for informing a patient and relative when an MRSA has been detected by hospital staff; and if she...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 463: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to the proposal from ACORN ABA school to establish a unit on Dublin's northside for 12 autistic children to provide for one-to-one education in order to provide for early intervention for autistic children; the position regarding the proposal submitted some time ago to her Department; the outcome of discussions...

Decentralisation Programme. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: The Minister was kind enough to answer a similar question from me last Wednesday. In his response, he told me that of the 131 staff due to go to Tullamore, who are important to the Civil Service since they manage the computers, only 19, less than 15%, have agreed to move. The Minister has taken an extra 63 staff into the Department of Finance. Another 20, presumably through promotion, are...

Decentralisation Programme. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister costed this? What is the cost of the extra 63 people who have moved into the Department and are described as in situ?

Decentralisation Programme. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: When the Taoiseach canvasses in Drumcondra, he tells people not to worry as decentralisation will not take place for ten years.

Public Expenditure. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Exchequer returns for 2005, the reason for the very significant differences between the forecasts given on budget day for public spending and the Exchequer deficit; the way in which the Government apparently underspent in the region of €564 million in the final three weeks of 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8065/06]

Public Expenditure. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: On Estimates day in November the Minister for Finance stated that the targets for spending were broadly on course and on budget day, 7 December, he stated that there would be €92 million in unspent balances on current spending, which is a significant jump on the position in previous years. However, by 31 December that figure of €92 million had jumped to an underspend of €564 million on...

Public Expenditure. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: The Minister's pre-election cash pile is piling up faster than the trolley counts in our hospitals. On a day when we heard that young people are paying record amounts for an average family house, is the Minister not concerned that what he has done in terms of bumping up spending in the pre-election year after depressing spending last year is playing fast and loose with the Irish economy? The...

Public Expenditure. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: ——and those such as house buyers who will end up paying more for houses because the Minister will fuel inflation given the extraordinary increase in spending that will happen this year.

Construction Industry Review. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps the Revenue Commissioners are taking to deal with the problem of bogus subcontractor and agency worker phenomenon in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8066/06]

Construction Industry Review. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister concerned at the cost to compliant taxpayers including compliant building firms, of using the sub-contracting system? Would he agree that in some years it is possible that up to €400 million of taxation has been underpaid by the construction industry, which includes building, forestry and the meat industry? The Minister knows that for 18 months it was not possible for...

Construction Industry Review. (28 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister have an estimate of the tax loss to the Exchequer from the construction industry's fraudulent use of bogus subcontractor status and agency arrangements?

Written Answers — EU Battle Groups: EU Battle Groups (23 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Defence if new legislation is required to allow for the participation of Irish troops in EU battle groups; if so, when he plans to publish the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7171/06]

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Some time ago, the Minister for Finance had to apologise in the Dáil for the Estimates being wrong because €56 million had gone missing, AWOL or whatever, from the Department of Health and Children. There is a lot of confusion. Was the money spent? Was it in the capital Estimate or did it go on current spending? When the Revised Estimates were published, we were promised a detailed...

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: There is about the €56 million.

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: I wish to raise a point of order on the Minister's statement.

Written Answers — Diplomatic Relations: Diplomatic Relations (22 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on recent aggressive statements made on behalf of the United States Government by its Secretary of Defence, Mr. Donald Rumsfeld, with respect to certain democratically elected Heads of State in Latin America, including the likening of President Chavez of Venezuela to Adolf Hitler; his further views on continuing allegations of...