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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Contract Plans (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 171. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of personal contract plans financed in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the amount of the loans; the number of vehicles involved and the way in which such loans are regulated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30117/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special needs assistants have been allocated to primary schools for the incoming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29558/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the special needs assistants allocation for a school (details supplied) will be provided for the incoming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29628/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Agencies Board Appointments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacancies on the Higher Education Authority board; the duration of these vacancies; the process by which these vacancies will be filled; the timeframe for this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30020/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: National Monuments (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 64. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has brought the Moore Street advisory group report to Cabinet with a view to prioritising the proposals to conserve and restore the historic properties in Moore Street associated with the Rising and adjacent areas of lanes and the proposals to improve and expand the market trading in Moore Street and the situation in which...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: National Monuments (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I am not quite clear which Minister will respond, although would be welcome, but I ask about the extensive report, The Moore Street Report - Securing History, on securing the future of the battlefield areas beside the GPO, rebuilding Moore Street as a trading and food market for Dublin and for visitors to Dublin, and reinvigorating the area. I am shocked the Minister has not yet brought this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: National Monuments (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: If the Minister of State cares to take a walk down Moore Street and the lanes running between the GPO and Moore Streets, he will note that it is an area in total crisis in which Moore Street, as a vibrant street market, and the traders who have traded inter-generationally there are on their last legs. A great deal of work was done by a diverse group, ranging from relatives of the 1916...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Wild Fires (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I express my condolences to the people of Portugal on the dreadful loss of life, habitat and forests in the big fires. I think everybody has been extremely upset by the fires in Ireland. I hope what has happened constitutes an opportunity for the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, to think twice about extending the dates within which burning is allowed. What has happened this year has...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Commemorative Events (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: As a member of the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government, with others in the Labour Party, I expressed in government very strong support for all the different mechanisms of the decade of centenaries and a very significant capital budget in respect of the renewal of key capital cultural institutions in this country. Can the Minister of State tell me whether this moribund committee will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: When the Minister transferred responsibility for the post office network back to the Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, notwithstanding the fact that he is now the Minister responsible for rural affairs, he washed his hands of the post office, other than to say God speed and that he will watch how the progress goes. We know from the Kerr report that half the post offices in this country are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: Everybody knows that one of the weakest links in the chain of the protection of rural Ireland is the future viability of post offices. I think we are all agreed on that issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I worked might and main to ensure that only a very small number of post offices closed during the period when the Labour Party was in government. The Minister has still not answered the principal question. The view has been given by post office management and by the Kerr report that half the post offices in the country are not commercially viable. That means that up to 500 post offices or...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 61. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on her Department's work with An Post and the Irish Postmasters' Union regarding the implementation of point 20 of the Action Plan for Rural Development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27513/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Post Office Network (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I congratulate Deputy Michael Ring on being appointed to his ministry. I recall a very heated debate not too long ago when the subject of who was responsible for the post offices at the Cabinet, at the level of Minister or Minister of State, exercised a particular passion on the part of the then Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ring, and the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: In the Taoiseach's recent manifesto for voters in the Fine Gael leadership election he referred to holding special day-long Cabinet meetings a number of times a year. Of all the issues we face on the island of Ireland, Brexit must be one of the most significant because of the implications for employment, not only in the North but also particularly in the South. In the case of the South, The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: Courage to Take Us Forward by Leo Varadkar. I apologise - it was a paper.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: Will one of the meetings be about Brexit?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the special paper on Brexit will be published. [25978/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: I welcome the members of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. Following Mr. Coffey's fairly extensive answer, I wish to raise two points. In regard to the calculation, Mr. Coffey said fairly trenchantly that measuring Ireland’s debt against GDP has become increasingly meaningless, given recent distortions and so on. The proposals being discussed by the CSO and other bodies about...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Burton: May I just interject briefly?