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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Not for the infrastructure such as key road builds. Large distributor roads are needed for 3,000 houses.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: In Fingal there is so much land for development that what has been given is easily absorbed already.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: It is not possible to develop the site without some of the key elements. In the Minister's example of the company in Cherrywood, clearly, it is doing a great deal of the primary development work, which will allow the land to be opened up for traditional house building.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: We have now had five proposals essentially based around study, information and data. Some of the information is financial, while some relates to more technical elements. Are we going to come together with something to provide the information we all seem to believe is required one way or another?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: An econometric analysis is a little different from an impact assessment.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: It is an analysis of data which we also need. I will withdraw the amendment with a view to retabling it on Report Stage. I would like a response from the Minister. Is he talking about an econometric analysis? I could conduct an assessment quickly, as I am sure loads of other members could.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Then I will leave the amendment stand. I am just trying to be helpful.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Before the meeting concludes, it would be very helpful if the Minister or his officials would provide an explanatory note on the very long and complex amendment on IREF before the next meeting. It is very long and given the length of this evening's discussion on relatively short amendments, it would be very helpful to get an explanation of it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: It is pages long.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Otherwise, we could be here for months.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the building of a school (details supplied); when construction is likely to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33963/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (8 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: What action is the Department taking in respect of children who were living in the Calais camp? The Minister will be aware that it is the will of the Dáil that Ireland provide accommodation for 200 such children.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (8 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: I speak for many when I say I find it impossible to understand the reason the Government has been so slow in accepting unaccompanied child migrants and migrants in general. The Minister may be aware that when I was Tánaiste I reached an agreement with the Taoiseach that Ireland would accept approximately 4,000 people and would have the services in place to facilitate this number. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (8 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister outline the specific steps she has taken on this issue? If we are to assist children and focus on older teenagers, as the Minister appeared to suggest, speed will be needed because 16 and 17 year olds will soon become adults. According to the census, 11% or 12% of the population are immigrants who are not originally from Ireland. Many of the nationalities represented in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Would the Taoiseach like it to do so?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Is that a "No"?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the status of any further discussions with the devolved Administrations in the United Kingdom, in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales regarding Brexit. [33530/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Has the Taoiseach spoken to the Northern Ireland deputy First Minister on the proposal aired in the newspapers in recent days? The current legal indications are that a vote on Brexit will be required in the British Parliament and that is likely to be very close. Many MPs from Scotland and England who have attended various meetings have very strongly indicated their view and expectation that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (8 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 215. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the community employment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33317/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (8 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who was made redundant in May 2016 and received statutory redundancy in July 2016 is eligible for the back to education allowance on a level 8 course commencing in September 2017 where the person applies to the CAO for said course in November 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33318/16]