Results 39,361-39,380 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the further land which has been acquired by her Department to provide for the promised additional primary schools and second level schools for the Castaheany, Ongar, Littlepace areas; the amount of land acquired; the person who owns the land; the estimated cost per acre; and if she will make a statement in respect of the Castaheany...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 503: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the situation of a homeowner who has purchased an affordable house through a mortgage with Fingal County Council and who wishes to remortgage with another finance company but is being asked to pay a clawback as a condition of being permitted to remortgage; if such is the policy of his Department; and if he...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 504: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the guidelines provided by his Department in respect of legal advice and fees arising from the purchase of affordable and shared ownership houses; the number of local authorities who are providing such services in-house through council solicitors; and the right of recourse purchasers have in the event of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to recent figures from the EU showing that Ireland spent just 16% of its GDP on social benefits compared to an EU average of 27.7%; his plans to increase social spending towards the EU average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37196/05]

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (1 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of exemptions from payment of social insurance employment contributions, for a period not exceeding 52 weeks, granted in respect of the temporary employment of persons not ordinarily resident here in respect of each of the past five years; the number of such applications granted in respect of a company (details...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (1 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have encountered a growing trend of workers reclassifying themselves as self-employed service providers; the figures as to the nature and scale of the trend; if the assertion by the two parties to a contract is accepted by the Revenue Commissioners as determining the outcome; the legal test used by them to decide...

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: The promised legislation on the Abbotstown complex is No. 1 on the pink sheet. Have the Government parties reached agreement on the publication of this Bill before Christmas, as was promised by the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach on numerous occasions? Could the Tánaiste specify when in the next three weeks the Abbotstown Sports Campus Development Authority Bill will be published and has the...

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: Sorry, the Taoiseach's answers varied. We were promised it this session. Yesterday he said "soon".

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: I want the definition of "soon". Has it now gone into next year or will it be in the next three weeks as promised?

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: It is No. 1 on the list.

Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Joan Burton: People with disabilities——

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (30 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the results of a pilot programme run by the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children showing that children as young as 12 have been treated for problems relating to cannabis abuse, some as young as 14 for heroin, while others between 15 and 18 for ecstasy and cocaine...

Written Answers — Countryside Recreation Strategy: Countryside Recreation Strategy (30 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when he expects Comhairle na Tuaithe to have completed the national countryside recreation strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36927/05]

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: I want to ask the Taoiseach about newspaper reports that the heads of a Bill regarding the lifting of tolls at the toll bridge have been agreed between the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, and National Toll Roads. Is this matter to be included in the transportation Bill or will it come under a separate Bill?

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: No, my question is on promised legislation——

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: ——except that it is being prepared by a private firm that owns a toll road.

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach comment?

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Yesterday, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, launched two half trains for Dublin West.

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: A normal train has eight carriages.

Order of Business (Resumed). (30 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: We got two four-carriage trains——