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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The way the Taoiseach is describing it, it sounds awfully like these are like relationship counsellors who are there to soothe fevered brows in the heat of parliamentary discussions. Given that we have all these people wandering around talking to advisers and chatting to lots of people, but not to any of us, although we would seem to be the object of their mission, I suppose I could ask the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Some time ago the Taoiseach made a commitment that people who had been adopted would have a right, as they have had in most other countries for the past 40 to 50 years, to get information about their birth families when they came of age at 18. There is no mention of it in this legislative programme, however, so has it fallen off the legislative shelf? The Minister for Children and Youth...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received an application for capital funding for a school (details supplied); if he has considered the request; if he will include the provision of the school in a revised capital plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2046/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the tender report for the Maynooth education campus, Maynooth, County Kildare following the re-tendering of the project; if he has approved the recommended preferred tenderer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2049/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the design team for a school (details supplied) has submitted its assessment of the changes that are required to tender documents for the project arising from changes introduced in public works contracts; if the report has been reviewed; when tenders will be invited for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2050/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the revised fully costed brief from the design team relating to a school (details supplied); if it has been reviewed and cleared by his Department; if the tender report has been submitted to enable the tender process to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the tender report for a school (details supplied); if it has been reviewed and cleared by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2052/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelcholáistí Issues (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 16 December 2016, when he expects to be in a position to accept the sufficient feasibility of the Irish-medium Aonad at a school (details supplied); if he will formally approve the go-ahead for the north Kildare Gaelcholáiste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2055/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will approve funding for the Lower Morrell River flood scheme in County Kildare, to enable Kildare County Council to seek planning approval for the scheme from An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2054/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include the provision of primary care psychology and counselling in primary care in the new primary care centre for Celbridge, County Kildare, in view of the identified need for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2047/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if he has communicated the revised arrangements for the implementation of the national positive ageing strategy to stakeholders; if stakeholders views on same will be taken into account before finalisation of the revised arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2048/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Expenditure Programme (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to announce decisions on the review of the transport elements of the capital plan announced in September 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2053/17]

Other Questions: Financial Services Sector (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Given that this is one of the potentially positive options arising from Brexit, I am surprised that the Department has not been somewhat more proactive. I do not know when this committee last met. The Brexit referendum took place well over six months ago. We need to move as quickly as possible to build on the opportunities that exist for Ireland. A significant number of people are already...

Other Questions: Financial Services Sector (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Today we heard the announcement by the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, that she is likely to pursue a hard Brexit option. The financial services industry has a series of structures with the Department and the Civil Service. I would like to know whether or not the Minister proposes to engage through those mechanisms with the likely number of financial services companies that may want to...

Other Questions: Financial Services Sector (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: Have any changes been made or contemplated in the context of the Brexit proposals, particularly since we have had confirmed what many of us have known for a considerable period of time, namely, that the British Government is likely to opt for a hard Brexit? In the context of the City of London and the IFSC, we know that the fact that English is the local language in each location is an...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: It is disappointing that the Minister has not been prepared to identify the likely yield from the taxation of these companies. The practice of these companies is very often to drive up rents, which they have already done in the Irish market in a significant way and to focus on relatively short-term to medium-term investment timeframes of five to seven years. If that is the outturn, this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister said that behavioural changes have already commenced. It would be helpful to the House if the Minister could identify those behavioural changes. For instance, are the companies experiencing some kind of conversion to corporate social responsibility in terms of their making a contribution to the Exchequer in respect of properties which they bought cheaply? While some of these...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he has put in place in order that so-called vulture funds pay both corporation tax and capital gains tax at full rate; if he will provide an estimate of the additional revenue he expects for the Exchequer in each of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 from the closure of loopholes that enabled these funds to avoid taxation; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: The question asks what will be the effective tax yield on a yearly basis from the changes the Minister introduced in the Finance Act on the taxation of vulture funds and the closure of loopholes which have allowed many such funds to pay little or no tax. Will the Minister advise if any of these funds contributed any corporation or capital gains taxation to the Exchequer prior to the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: I welcome the Minister and thank him for his initial contribution. I have a few questions. To return to the issue of Garda pay, I am glad that an agreement was reached. It would have been incredibly unfortunate for the country if there had been a Garda strike, so it is welcome that an agreement was reached. However, in the material I saw about the agreement and how the €50 million...