Results 5,501-5,520 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (25 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has received representations from members of Fingal County Council seeking to partition the local authority along the N2 to create a new local authority in the north County Dublin area outside the remit of the proposed directly elected mayor for Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (25 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has examined the redrawing of the boundary between Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council in the vicinity of the M50; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31731/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (25 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department will be establishing a local government boundary committee to review local electoral areas in view of the population increases in the Fingal county area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31732/16]
- Syrian Conflict: Statements (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: The now six year old conflict in Syria is the world's gravest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. The numbers are easy to throw out but difficult to grasp: 8 million displaced people inside Syria, 4.5 million people under siege or inaccessible, 4.5 million refugees beyond the Syrian borders, 1.5 million people injured and 250,000 people killed. Syria has become a...
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Budgets (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 30. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will explain the 9 per cent reduction of funding in the 2017 Estimates for Irish Language, Gaeltacht and Islands programme from €51,206,000 to €46, 736,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31014/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Arts in Education Charter (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure the better integration of the arts into education and a broadening of the focus on science, technology, engineering and maths, STEM, into science, technology, engineering, arts and maths, STEAM; if he will expand the ambition and resourcing of the arts and education charter; and if he will continue to work to further...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new schools establishment group has made a decision in respect of the new Carpenterstown and Castleknock second level school in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31189/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the final assessment reports of the new schools establishment group in respect of the patronage of nine new schools to be established have been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31190/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 170. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has agreed to carry over funding for the 1916 commemoration to the general arts, culture and film programme for 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31285/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 171. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Government will commit to the long-term goal of increasing arts funding to the European average of 0.6% of GDP. [31286/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 172. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding for the arts over the lifetime of the Government; and her views on whether funding for the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board should be doubled. [31287/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 212. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the 16% reduction in the 2017 Estimates for the arts, education and film programme compared with the 2016 Estimates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31452/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 173. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will create an arts capital fund, modelled after the sports capital fund, to ensure better long-term funding for the Irish arts. [31288/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 174. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will liaise with the Minister for Social Protection to examine the supports for working artists under the social protection system; and if the Government will relax activation rules for working artists to allow them to support themselves as they produce art and cultural pieces (details supplied). [31289/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: World Heritage Sites (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 175. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the Government's plan to pursue more applications for UNESCO world heritage status for Ireland's national landmarks (details supplied). [31290/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 176. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way she will work with her colleague, the Minister for Education and Skills, to ensure parents can access second level education through Irish, especially in areas with proven demand for Gaelscoileanna. [31291/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 177. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Government will provide extra funding to Irish-speaking Gaeltacht areas to encourage greater use of the language and better economic prospects for those living there. [31292/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 178. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way the Government proposes to ensure arts funding is used to allow minority and new Irish voices to be heard as part of our cultural output. [31293/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 187. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will liaise with the Minister for Health to develop and roll out an arts and health strategy across acute and children's hospitals and across the community health sector; and the other innovative approaches that are being considered to use the arts as a means to promote well-being across society. [31303/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (20 Oct 2016)
Joan Burton: 188. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action she is taking with her Government colleagues to systematically address social, geographic and economic barriers to full participation in the artistic and cultural life of the country, particularly for children and young persons. [31304/16]