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Other Questions: Banking Sector (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: How is the examination of the establishment of a public banking system in this country going? Today has been a very bad day for rural Ireland. We have heard reports indicating that up to 80 post offices are to close. In recent days, we heard the bad news that up to 30 branches of Ulster Bank are to close. Many of those branches are in the Republic of Ireland, most likely along the Border....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 24. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her role in dealing with the consequences of Brexit within a regional and rural affairs context and the threat it poses to communities on both sides of the Border; the contingencies her Department has prepared in view of the threats it poses to the livelihoods of persons in rural Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Ba mhaith liom ceist a chur ar an Aire mar gheall ar Brexit agus cad atá á dhéanamh aici agus ag an Roinn chun cabhair a thabhairt do mhuintir na réigiún ar an dá thaobh den Teorainn. An bhfuil a fhios aici go bhfuil an-eagla ar dhaoine go mbeidh poist chustaim ann arís ar an Teorainn?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister aware of the indication, which has been confirmed by an tAire Airgeadais, that there may be customs posts along the Border and that, in the event of Britain leaving the customs union, the Republic will be the border of the 27 remaining states and that the Northern Ireland side of the Border will be the frontier for the United Kingdom? I am sure the Minister is aware that this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: My question was in the context of the Minister's position as Minister with responsibility for the regions and regional development. Has she met the Minister for Finance to specifically raise with him the issue of the possible return of Border customs posts? It has been suggested there could potentially be five or six major customs points? As the Minister said, she lives close to the Border...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Museum (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Tá sé ann anois.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Museum (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Tá sé ann anois.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Museum (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Níl aon aistriúchán ann, is dócha.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Museum (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Tá sé-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Museum (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: B'fhéidir. Níl a fhios agam.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Museum (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Labhair arís.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach did not mention a barrister, solicitor, a chartered accountant or a management accountant.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: In particular, the Taoiseach did not mention any trade lawyers. The EU has 7,000 trade lawyers. Do we have any?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of whole-time and part-time civil servants who were working in his Department on 22 February 2017. [10023/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Along with many other Members, the Taoiseach and I have been involved with a number of EU Presidencies. The Taoiseach will recall that in the year and a half in the run-up to a Presidency, enormously detailed arrangements were made right across the Government and within the structures of government. A particular feature was the employment of special staff. Among the special staff who...

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: The former Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin, is here today.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: He was a Minister in that Government.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I am just saying the deal was not a good deal because-----

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: -----the religious orders have not paid the money.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: That is what I am saying.