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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 740. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department paid any of the special advisers, personal assistants or personal secretaries and other unestablished civil servants, whose contracts of employment ceased on 6 May 2016 on the election of a new Government, two weeks pay in lieu of notice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1623/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 1057. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on the waiting list for operations in relation to scoliosis in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; the number of these procedures that took place in 2016; if he will provide a timeframe for a person (details supplied) who is waiting for this procedure to be carried out in Our Lady's Children's Hospital; and if he will...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: But they can give notice.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: No.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: No.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: I do not know if the Minister is familiar with what happens when a rent review process commences. Decent landlords will often tell people significantly in advance that for one reason or another, they intend to increase the rent. In anybody's understanding, that is the beginning of a rent review process. 3 o’clock However, the Minister is tagging onto this a legal framework. I do...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: As a Deputy for Dublin West, I want to talk about the rent pressure zones and particularly the adjacent areas. I have discussed this with the Minister on a number of occasions. I am really disappointed that he has shut his eyes to addressing this particular difficulty. Anyone who knows anything about rents in big towns and cities and their adjacent neighbourhoods knows that the rent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review and expansion of the DEIS programme to additional schools; the criteria based on which schools will be added to the programme; the methods by which a school can apply to be considered in the programme; when details of the review and expansion of DEIS will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has received the fully costed brief change from the design team in relation to a school (details supplied); if his Department has received same, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tenders received by the closing date of 10 December 2016, for a project (details supplied); when it is anticipated that the design team will submit the tender report to his Department; when he envisages construction will commence on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40538/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 156. 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 the 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. [40539/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the commitment to the opening of a gaelcholáiste for north Kildare in Maynooth in 2019, as indicated in the school building programme 2016 to 2021 announced on 17 November 2015 by his predecessor; the steps being taken to secure a site for the gaelcholáiste in view of the fact that the gaelcholáiste is to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 342. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish his implementation proposals on the national positive ageing strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40540/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (16 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the expected opening date for the Celbridge primary care centre, Celbridge, County Kildare; the services which will be available to the public at the primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40541/16]

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: Will they please think again? They should be brave; that is what politics is about. For example, if we had listened in the last Dáil to the naysayers, we would never have got the marriage referendum passed.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: If we had listened to the naysayers, we would never have got transgender legislation passed.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: All of those were difficult debates. This is obviously difficult for Deputy Lawless. He should take part in the debate-----

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: -----and allow the Bill to be debated. That is all we are asking.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: I did not disturb the Minister when he was speaking.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: I did not disturb the Minister. For a long time during an earlier Dáil, I shared an office and subsequently a corridor with the former Deputy and current President, Michael D. Higgins. Nobody is saying that the Labour Party in government is perfect, but when we went into government in the 1990s we created the first ever culture Ministry in this country with the total backing of my...