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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelcholáistí Issues (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the enrolment to the Irish medium Aonad at a school (details supplied) for September 2014, 2015 and 2016 demonstrates sufficient viability for the establishment of the gaelcholáiste for north Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13121/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions Mergers (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to progress in talks between Waterford Institute of Technology and Carlow Institute of Technology regarding the proposed merger of the two third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13586/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Price Controls (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 28 February 2017, if he will consider further amending the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to allow for towns with a population of over 5,000 persons to be considered for designation as rent pressure zones in their own right, rather than the present system whereby the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Administration (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 450. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to amend the new housing assistant payment website www.hap.ie to make it explicit that families that take part in the HAP scheme can be assured they will not lose their place on the housing list, in view of the fact that the absence of this information is giving rise to confusion; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 610. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of State assets sold since 2011; the use of the proceeds of these sales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13160/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (21 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 629. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in the OPW formally approving the lower Morell River flood relief scheme and the funding of same in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13116/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Reports (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I note that the Minister said, "My Department is not aware of any issues regarding non-lecturing grades." I suggest the Minister agree to meet the representatives of the staff involved and their union representatives so they might advise him of what is happening as regards the quality of the work and contracts and the extent of permanency being made available, as I said, in particular in...

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Reports (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: -----and bolstering research in the Irish university and third level sector, it seems to me a very retrograde step, as I said-----

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Reports (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: -----to strip the quality of these jobs. The Minister claims-----

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Reports (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: -----he has no knowledge of this. The previous speaker referred to Pontius Pilate.

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Reports (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister, unusually for him, is doing a Pontius Pilate on this-----

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Reports (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: -----and he needs to address it.

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Reports (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I believe we would all agree, if we can agree on anything after that debate, that during the term of the previous Government almost no post offices were closed. All the roaring and shouting that is going on now about the current Government is not impressive. We would all agree that the third level sector is vital to our future and that third level colleges and universities are the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I am sure these figures make much more pleasant reading than the figures from six or seven years ago. What does the NTMA see as our future benefit from QE and the ECB? How does it see that going?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: How much more scope is there for us and for what period?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Does the NTMA have a calculation for how much Ireland has benefitted from QE? Obviously, interest rates, longevity and all of those things have improved, but does Mr. O'Kelly have a net figure as to how much Ireland benefitted as a country from QE?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: It is now below €7 billion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Looking at the economy at the moment, a couple of things stand out. One is that our demographics are rather different from those of most other European countries. In the long run, that is very much in our favour. In other words, we have many young children and a much slower rate of ageing, although that will come into play by 2050. We have a much lower rate of aging than most other...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I meet people from the European Investment Bank from time to time, as I am sure other Deputies do, and I leave wanting to pull my hair out as it is so frustrating. In theory they have bags of money there. In practice, it is "not for giving out to you lot" because there is some point or other on which we do not hit perfection. I understand it is out there in the market and has to get...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Developments in the National Debt: National Treasury Management Agency (8 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I see the summaries which Mr. O'Kelly referenced in terms of ISIF's lending. I do not think the housing market will really recover until such time as we have affordable housing for which, say, the likes of some of the NTMA's junior employees might be in a position to get a mortgager, even in the Dublin area where the price is somewhere from €350,000 to €550,000. I just don't...