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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Legislative Measures (4 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the legislative proposals his Department is working on to secure the rights of sitting tenants in buy-to-let homes being repossessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31136/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (4 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of homes that have been acquired for social housing under initiatives such as the repair and leasing scheme; the amount spent on this in tabular form; the number of units in the next 12 months to be delivered under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31149/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety (4 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the steps he has taken to review fire safety in apartment blocks in view of the appalling tragedy at Grenfell tower in London; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31153/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (4 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the discussions his Department has had with a firm (details supplied) regarding the company establishing a special purpose vehicle to build 1,000 social and affordable homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31154/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Brexit Data (4 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if there is a senior official with designated responsibility for Brexit matters in his Department; if so, the grade of the designated official; the funding allocated to the said Brexit unit; the cost to date in 2017; the anticipated cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31272/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Brexit Data (4 Jul 2017)

Joan Burton: 685. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there is a senior official with designated responsibility for Brexit matters in his Department; if so, the grade of the designated official; the funding allocated to the said Brexit unit; the cost to date in 2017; the anticipated cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31270/17]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I call on the Minister to be a little bit braver than he has shown himself to be. There is no doubt that for most teachers, parents and students, singling one child or a number of children out for removal from a general classroom at particular times of the day is not appropriate. While that it may not affect many children, there is no doubt that children very often feel that kind of...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: To pick up on Deputy Shortall's point, in the consultation that was held in Croke Park, the principal of Stratford College, which has a Jewish ethos, stated that they have arranged it that religious classes are held very early in the day and the rest of the day is for general academic subjects. I think one has to bear in mind that some schools have already worked out the particular practices...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister will be familiar with the special units in most large primary schools, at both junior and senior level, and which are extending into secondary schools. I find the Minister's statement quite confusing because at primary level in a large primary school we are talking about two special units of six pupils in each class. By and large, there is a significant over-subscription by...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: Normally there is a great deal of discussion generally involving the principal of the school and it may well be that the psychologist may be involved but many of the children who are accepted in this situation range from having moderate to severe needs whereas children who might have very mild needs may just get the occasional intervention. Parents deserve clarity as to how the students who...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: It would be helpful to have that note and also to have some indications in it of the types of issues we are talking about. When I became Minister for Social Protection in 2011, I found in regard to applications for the domiciliary care allowance where children were on the spectrum but particularly where children had behavioural disorders, that they had not been provided for in terms of...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: Can the behavioural disorders issue be addressed?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I want to know if the Department is providing for it or if it is developing an approach towards it.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: This is potentially an excessively wide section, which will defeat the aim of many here which is to ensure people can go to their local school in particular, notwithstanding the fact they may not be of the religion of that local school, if the school has a religious ethos but is publicly funded. We tabled amendment No. 23 which, surprisingly to me and I may get an explanation later from the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: What you are saying-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I did. It does not make a lot of legal sense. The Minister has ruled out the Labour Party's amendment No. 23, which precisely-----

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: It was ruled out. It precisely addresses the issue. Let us be honest. If we are all concerned about the baptism barrier, let us talk about how it operates. It operates in the context of catchments. What we are trying to do is provide a balance which provides, as the Constitution requires, for the ethos of the school but which does not mean that children who are not of that ethos in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I refer to the Taoiseach's conversations with President Macron and Chancellor Merkel. They have put forward a renewed leadership of the Franco-German alliance concentrating on issues such as the development of a eurozone government with a finance minister and the capacity to levy taxes on citizens directly. What really concerns me is the following. Can the Taoiseach indicate whether he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (28 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had contact with President Macron of France. [29838/17]