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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Capital Expenditure Programme (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 845. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the level of construction inflation that has been experienced by his Department in each of the past six years and to date in 2017 in respect of construction projects and other capital projects; the way in which he monitors construction inflation and the mechanisms he employs to establish this; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Traveller Ethnicity: Statements (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: For too long, Travellers have been viewed as a problem by some in Irish society but I am so pleased that we here celebrating Travellers as a people. Every report that was commissioned in the early days focused almost entirely on the negative, most notably the Commission on Itinerancy Report in 1963. Traveller groups and activists have long advocated a new platform for their people, a...

Other Questions: Apprenticeship Data (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the uptake in the number of apprenticeships by females; if his Department has proposals to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10117/17]

Other Questions: Apprenticeship Data (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister made any progress in making places available for girls and young women to do apprenticeships? I asked him about this last year but, on the ground, very little progress is being made. As international women's day approaches, has he revised his approach to this issue to enable many young women and girls to get an apprenticeship at the end of their secondary schooling so that...

Other Questions: Apprenticeship Data (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister is saying the progress relates to last year and, while everything is being rolled out, nothing has actually been rolled out. Has the Minister had a chance to visit fifth year, sixth year or transition year groups in secondary schools around the country to ask the young women how many of them are interested in apprenticeships? In Austria and Germany it has been shown that, with...

Other Questions: Apprenticeship Data (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: We have a worrying dropout rate in colleges, particularly in certain courses in certain areas, where all qualifying applicants are being accepted. Many young people go to college, only to find out that it does not work out for them and that they would have been more successful in an apprenticeship. It sounds like it will take between five and seven years before the numbers increase in any...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Where is the evidence of that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Very briefly-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach must be aware that-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: -----in terms of the construction contracts-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: -----variations and arbitration are resulting in post-build cost increases of up to 20%.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social policy and public service reform last met. [8526/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: What is the situation regarding terms and conditions of employment in the public service or publicly owned companies? Specifically, has the Cabinet sub-committee met to discuss the deteriorating situation in the terms and conditions of employment at Bus Éireann and the threat that this poses to social services, given people's need, particularly in rural Ireland, to have a bus service on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met. [10022/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: On the same point, both Deputy Boyd Barrett and I took part in the debate with the Taoiseach on these matters last November. In fairness to him, the Taoiseach responded quite sympathetically to the concerns we raised. I referred then to the case of a nine year old girl who has severe scoliosis and an intellectual disability and is a wheelchair user. One can only imagine the level of pain...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply but it did not clarify when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit last met.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach is probably aware that as we speak Jean-Claude Juncker is presenting a White Paper on the future of Europe in the context of Brexit to the European Parliament and, I assume, given the details available on social media, also in the context of the advent of President Trump in the United States. In regard to the meeting which the Taoiseach has already indicated he will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: When the Taoiseach met recently with Mr. Juncker did he discuss his proposed White Paper? Did he offer the Taoiseach a briefing on the likely contents of that paper and, if so, why has the Taoiseach not shared that with us?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach is famous for talking to people in the street. People are tremendously interested in Brexit.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: Anybody who is out talking to people knows that Brexit is the key issue for them. People are worried and have doubts about their hopes and expectations for their future and that of their families. Perhaps the Taoiseach would level with us on the status of Mr. Juncker's White Paper and on whether Ireland has a ready response to it.