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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: GDP.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Are we allowed to ask questions?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: I will wait until the end.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Let me refer again to the labour market. With regard to the statistics, which obviously represent significant improvements on the earlier years, does the Department have sub-data or sub-analysis that would indicate the proportion of jobless households? In this regard, Ireland is quite an outlier by comparison with the rest of Europe. Has the underlying figure begun to improve? Could the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Slide 32, I think.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Can you repeat that please? What is PCD?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: Is that by the returnees?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Forecasts for Budget 2017: Department of Finance (4 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: What about the people over 50?

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: I welcome the Minister's commitment to ensure commencement of this school project as soon as possible. It is possible to have the tendering process finalised before the end of the year. I understand the new guidelines will apply from 8 January. Will the Minister give a commitment that both he and his Department will work with the school which has over a period of ten years sought to bring...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: Members of the board of management at St. Mochta's school contacted me at the end of August to express their understandable shock and disappointment after the Department of Education and Skills wrote to it to advise that the rebuild of the school was being postponed until next year at the earliest. St. Mochta's is an excellent school with brilliant and dedicated teachers and a very...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (29 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the study carried out for a pilot local public bank to be established along the lines of the Sparkassen in Germany; his proposals to enable the establishment of such a local public bank, in line with the commitment in the programme for Government to investigate the German Sparkassen model for the development of local...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (29 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he had with the European Commission and Heads of Government with reference to the ruling concerning a company (details supplied). [27228/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (29 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: 52. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Garda intelligence headquarters, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, was recently sold to a REIT that wishes to redevelop the complex; if suitable accommodation has been secured for the staff; the length of time it will take to relocate these offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (29 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: 55. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff accommodated in the Garda intelligence headquarters, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2; her plans to accommodate its offices in future in view of the recent sale of the building to an REIT that wishes to redevelop the Garda intelligence headquarters; if new suitable accommodation has been secured for the staff; the length of time it...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Area Based Childhood Programme (29 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: 281. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total funding for the area-based childhood programme for children since 2006 and each subsequent year to date in 2016; her plans or proposals for expanding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27847/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: In the Taoiseach's view, whose fault is it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: The question is to the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: When I, as Tánaiste, had the honour to work with the Taoiseach, he and I reached a widely publicised agreement that Ireland would accept 4,000 migrants over a period of time in the context of people fleeing the humanitarian crisis in Syria and other areas. If he recalls, we spoke specifically about prioritising the situation of families with children in camps in countries like Lebanon,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the outcomes he achieved at the recent meeting of the EU Heads of Government in Bratislavia. [27227/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Burton: Therefore, conscience has now been divorced from the principle of collective Cabinet responsibility?