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- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: We are all satisfied with that.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: Is the Tánaiste saying they have not even thought about it?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: What is the Tánaiste suggesting?
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (9 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: 244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the timetable for the delivery of the DART underground linking Heuston and Connolly stations is under review; the timetable for the delivery of new rail and light rail infrastructure for the greater Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6414/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: Does that imply the Taoiseach has not met that person?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach has not met that person. He or she is our own official on the committee.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: Has the Taoiseach reflected on the potential, in the context of the structure of the peace process and the Belfast Agreement, for the development of a separate strand, among several strands, to deal with the issue of North-South relations on this island? Such a proposal was put forward by a former leader of the Labour Party and Tánaiste at the time, Dick Spring. It would serve the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: I thank Mr. O'Brien for the overview he provided at the beginning of the session. He referred to the fiscal rules and the fact that Ireland is locked out of them by the way that Mr. Juncker has chosen to put out potential investment packages, which are heavily dependent on large-scale private operators being able to take up those opportunities. Ireland does not have the scale that appears...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: Can I ask Mr. Brady if it is open to us to interpret the rules in a more flexible way now that Ireland is out of the period when the troika had a lot of control over our affairs?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: In that regard, in the context of today's meeting I took down the recent glossy Action Plan for Jobs and the Action Plan for Education. I can find nothing concrete on apprenticeships or traineeships - however one wants to describe them. For a lot of children, both working class and middle class, these are an essential avenue to gaining a highly desirable skill. Moreover, many of them go on...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: The one most commonly referenced is the hospitality and restaurant trade. Is there any light at the end of that tunnel? All over the country, one cannot get chefs. Many young people, no doubt spurred on by all the fantastic television shows of contestants cooking and becoming celebrities, are interested in a way that they were not interested ten or 20 years ago. It is a fashionable...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: There are prominent reports in this morning's newspapers, including The Irish Timesand The Irish Independent, that Fine Gael Ministers have been advised by their party headquarters to hold functions to raise funds for the Fine Gael Party.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: Please let me continue. The Ceann Comhairle did not interrupt other people.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: I want to quote from The Irish Times: "Mr. Curran and the trustees urged senior party figures to facilitate more fundraising events included (sic) ticketed breakfast meetings or lunches with Cabinet Ministers." That smacks of cash for access and in terms of the programme for Government and the determination to limit corruption in this country, it is utterly wrong. I want to know if the...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: Was he at the pre-Cabinet meeting that decided on breakfast with Michael Noonan and, as it says in the newspapers, lunch with Leo? That is cash for access, no more and no less and it is utterly wrong.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: It is something that, in the context of all of the changes made with regard to declarations, I thought had actually been rooted out.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: Is it cash for access?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: I think it is a disgrace.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: Excuse me?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)
Joan Burton: I would like the Taoiseach to withdraw that allegation right now.