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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the rebuild of a school (details supplied); the stage at which it is at; the timetable of construction; when groundworks will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39279/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the rebuild of a school (details supplied); the stage at which it is at; the timetable of construction; when groundworks will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39280/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has had discussion with Fingal County Council regarding the location of the new second level school for the Carpenterstown and Castleknock school planning area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39285/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Data (8 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are now operating in the new Corduff primary care centre in Dublin 15; the number of staff located there; the number of staff yet to be transferred there; when the child and adult mental health services are to be relocated there from Cherry Orchard Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39281/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Data (8 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are now operating from the new Navan Road primary health care centre in Dublin 7; the number of staff located there; the number of staff yet to be transferred there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39282/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (8 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 191. To ask the Minister for Health when work will commence on the new paediatric OPD and urgent care satellite centre in Blanchardstown Hospital; the number of patients to be provided for; when it is scheduled to open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39283/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (8 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours to be allocated to the Dublin 15 and Dublin 7 areas under the HSE’s 2017 work programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39284/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Climate Change Advisory Council (8 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 236. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of times the expert advisory committee on climate change has met; the date the full committee was appointed; when the first report of the committee on climate change is expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39205/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Heading (8 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his Department’s work with local authorities and transport providers on the bus rapid transport scheme in the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39288/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (7 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the requirements to have a school (details supplied) extensively refurbished; the works that are proposed to address this issue; and the timeline for these works to be completed. [38986/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: In the context of infrastructural development, I draw the attention of the Taoiseach to the €200 million local infrastructure fund which was introduced when the Labour Party was in government. The amount sought is up to four times higher than the funding available. Housing is urgently needed in the Dublin area, in particular, as well as in other parts of the country, as the Taoiseach...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: I am concerned about the future of the technological universities Bill and the impact on proper regional development unless the legislation is brought before the Dáil quite soon. Is it true that the Independent members of the Government are vetoing the Bill? It is absolutely vital to develop our institutes of technology in all our major cities and towns, particularly in the regions, if...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: That is the word on the street.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: That is what they are telling people in Fine Gael. They might not be telling the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action has met. [38302/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the commitment to the opening of the gaelcholáiste for north Kildare in Maynooth in 2019 as indicated in the school building programme 2016-2021 announced on 17 November 2015 by his predecessor, in view of the fact that it is due to open in 2019; the steps being taken to secure a site; when a design team will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (6 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement his Department has with Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, regarding the implementation schedule for the international education mark; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38732/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 374. To ask the Minister for Health when the child and adolescent mental health service for Dublin 15, currently located in Cherry Orchard in Ballyfermot, will be transferred to the local health centre in Corduff, Dublin 15, as the service was successfully previously located in Dublin 15 for a number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38760/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (6 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: 473. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the DART expansion programme and the electrification of the Sligo line from Connolly to Maynooth, together with removal of level crossings and resignalling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38715/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: Yesterday I was approached by somebody who rents a one-and-a-half bed apartment in Clonee in Meath for about €860 a month. The person has been advised by the landlord that when the two-year moratorium on rent increases, which my colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly, introduced, finishes in March, the rent will go up to €1,200. In Dublin 7, in the Manor Street area, two-beds are...