Results 39,481-39,500 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Official Engagements. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: During the course of the ECOFIN meeting, did Ministers formally or informally discuss the prospect of rising interest rates?

Tax Code. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: What is the current situation in the Department and the Revenue Commissioners with regard to refunds for taxpayers in the building industry? The Comptroller and Auditor General made a detailed comment on this matter. It has also been the subject of a number of reports of ongoing fraud cases, including one involving 294 contractors and another involving 22 taxpayers in the building industry....

Tax Code. (9 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Is it true that the refunds have been suspended?

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (8 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she intends to take to ensure that all post-primary schools welcome and support children with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32755/05]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (8 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many primary schools with high numbers of children with special learning needs have lost teachers as a result of the introduction of the weighted system; if teachers will be restored to those schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32756/05]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Medical Services: Defence Forces Medical Services (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on claims made by the president of PDFORRA that medical services within the Defence Forces are totally inadequate; if his attention has been drawn to claims made at the PDFORRA conference that members of the Defence Forces must use their own money to pay for medical treatments to protect their careers and contracts; his plans to address...

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Is the fact that Abbotstown is specifically included on the new transport map, although in a rather odd location——

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: On the Bill, will the Taoiseach, when he comes to Dublin West on Monday, grant land for the hospice?

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: A hospice has been promised at Abbotstown. I want to know if the Bill will include that.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Abbotstown has already moved on this map by 20 miles.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: The Minister, Deputy Roche, was on the radio yesterday.

Order of Business. (3 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Let the Minister make a personal statement.

Written Answers — National Consumer Strategy: National Consumer Strategy (2 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, arising from the report of the Consumer Strategy Group, it is intended to implement the recommendation to introduce standardised statutory codes of practice across all public sector bodies, which the group indicated was the responsibility of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31585/05]

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (2 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to his consultations regarding the possible establishment of a joint labour committee to protect the interests of domestic workers, especially in view of evidence of exploitation of domestic workers from abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31586/05]

Written Answers — State Property: State Property (2 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 283: To ask the Minister for Finance the situation in relation to the acquisition by his Department of the old Allied Irish Bank on Main Street, Blanchardstown; if the premises has been sold by his Department; if so, the value realised or are the premises to be used for some other purpose, if so, the purpose of same; and the cost of the acquisition of the premises including all legal...

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (2 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 291: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the plight of civil servants working on the north side of Dublin in locations such as Garda headquarters in Dublin 7 and the Department of Defence, Dublin 9; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that many of the civil servants who are opting for family, personal and work reasons to remain in the...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (2 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 473: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he is taking in co-operation with gardaí and local authorities to deal with the problem of anti-social behaviour especially that associated with the building of bonfires in the Dublin 15 area; if he has issued any directive to gardaí to support the local authority, Fingal County Council, in the difficulties it...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Accidents: Road Traffic Accidents (2 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 474: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the estimated time of arrival of gardaí to road traffic accidents in the Dublin 15 and The Ward area of Dublin West; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the course of an accident occurring at 7.55 p.m. on 14 October 2005 on the N2 at Coolquay, The Ward, it took 55 minutes for gardaí to arrive on the...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: That was said in the last Dáil.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Nov 2005)

Joan Burton: It was.