Results 39,281-39,300 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 1374: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress which has been made in acquiring the site for a second level school for Castaheany, Littlepace, Clonee, Dublin 15; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many thousands of new homes have been built and occupied in the area in the past eight years and that parents are seriously concerned at the lack of second...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 1375: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to proposals by her Department to re-develop a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if budgetary provision has been made for same and when she expects the work to commence and to be completed in respect of the school as promised by her predecessor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2227/06]
- Written Answers — Multi-Denominational Schools: Multi-Denominational Schools (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 1376: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to the provision of a primary school for Tyrellstown, Dublin 15, and Educate Together, currently occupying temporary premises at Littlepace, Dublin 15; the capital funding which she has allocated for the building of the school; when she expects the building of the school to commence; when she expects the...
- Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 1406: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the public bodies and agencies within her Department exempted from the full remit of the freedom of information legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2743/06]
- Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 1427: To ask the Minister for Defence the public bodies and agencies within his Department exempted from the full remit of the freedom of information legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2744/06]
- Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 1523: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the public bodies and agencies within his Department exempted from the full remit of the freedom of information legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2745/06]
- Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: The next thing we will be told is that it will be in by the summer.
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: On a point of order.
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: Would it be in order to provide time to debate this issue? This is a major error in the accounts of the Department of Health and Childrenââ
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: ââand of the new Accounting Officer. In the course of the budgetary process, we were given figures that indicated a total capital carryover for the Government of â¬285 million under the capital carryover rules. Before the end of the year, that had increased to â¬343 million. I asked the Department about this vast increase. We are now told there is a further error in the Estimates of...
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: This may well throw light on the freedom of information disclosures before Christmas of the correspondence from Professor Drumm about his inability to spend more current account money in regard to staff in the Health Service Executive. This requires a major statement of explanation. It is not good enough for the Minister to leave it until the end of February, when the Revised Estimates for...
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: On a point of order, the authority of the Tánaiste to spend money depends on the Votes of this House. She has her current spending wrong through the executive of the HSE by â¬56 million and she has her capital spending wrong by another â¬56 million so the cumulative error is over â¬100 million. Information was published under freedom of information legislation regarding problemsââ
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: ââthat Professor Drumm was experiencing in regard to staffing.
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: Will the Minister indicate on what the â¬56 million was spent?
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: That is a reasonable question.
- Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the alarming statistics published by the Education Welfare Board indicating that approximately 84,000 children up to the age of 16 miss at least 20 days of schooling per year; if the board will be adequately funded to employ enough education welfare officers to address the wide scale problem of absenteeism from school;...
- Adult Education. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will respond to the sense of betrayal felt by the TUI and its members who work in the further education sector at the failure to allocate funding in the Estimates and budget 2006 to implement the McIver report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39651/05]
- Development Banks Bill 2005: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Now that the Government has reinstated the promise that Ireland would reach the 0.7% target, it is time that the policy drift in our overseas development aid programme, the spending of money by Development Cooperation Ireland and the positions assumed by the Department of Finance on the spending of taxpayers' money on development were examined. My views on the objectives of the Ireland aid...
- Development Banks Bill 2005: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State saying that privatisation of water is successful?
- Development Banks Bill 2005: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: I am talking about the privatisation of key public services in developing countries, such as sewerage and water services, which are absolutely essential to the maintenance of the life of the poorest people.