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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: I want to ask about the section dealing with the penalties. The penalty of €10 million is very small for the size of some of the entities involved that have been guilty of market abuse. Irish courts are not going to sentence anybody to ten years in respect of a market abuse offence. I am not aware that there have ever been comparable convictions in Ireland which resulted in prison...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: Can we express the 15% specifically?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: Why would we not reintroduce it in this legislation?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: Post-Brexit we are moving into a different era and market regulation in Ireland is much softer in practice than in most countries. We have very little prosecution of white collar crime in this country. I would appreciate if the Minister of State would send a note to me, and on Report Stage I will certainly consider that it should be stated explicitly. After all, we will be trying to...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: 22. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will create an arts capital fund modelled on the sports capital fund to ensure improved long-term funding for the arts. [19862/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: 35. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will urgently begin preparation of a global arts forum for Ireland, similar to the structure of the Global Irish Economic Forum, to highlight our indigenous talent and map a strong and healthy future for arts and culture at home and abroad. [19865/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: 38. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plan to pursue more applications for United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organsation world heritage status for more national landmarks (details supplied). [19863/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts in Education Charter (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: 50. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure the better integration of the arts into education and broaden the focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics into science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics; to expand the ambition and resourcing of the arts in education charter; and to continue to work with the Department of Education...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: 58. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to develop musical education and make instruments available to young persons and the general population through facilitating schools, youth groups and libraries in enhancing their music resources and the provision of access to musical training and instruments for the benefit of local communities. [19866/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ministerial Responsibilities (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: 200. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the Government increased the total number of Ministers without assigning a single one with exclusive responsibility for the arts, heritage and the Gaeltacht; how arts policy priorities will now be implemented in the revised departmental structure; and her views on the 13,000 plus persons who have already joined an online...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: 307. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a prosecution has been initiated by the Workplace Relations Commission under the 1977 Protection of Employment Act relating from the closure and liquidation of a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20136/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (7 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: 308. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the outcome of the High Court proceedings taken by companies (details supplied) against officers of his Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20137/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: I ask the Taoiseach about the proposal by the Minister with responsibility for housing, Deputy Simon Coveney, to the effect that planning permission for housing estates of more than 150 units will go straight to An Bord Pleanála and bypass the local authority entirely. The follow-up proposal by Deputy Barry Cowen, the Fianna Fáil spokesperson, is to bring that down to 30 units. In...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: Can the Taoiseach tell me whether this will result in legislation and when?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: It is in the paper.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: I served on the old Dublin County Council. I have a lot of personal experience of this.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: I have a lot of experience of it. Do not lecture me about it.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artworks Sales (6 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: 196. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of correspondence dated 29 June 2016 from An Taisce - the National Trust for Ireland to her Department concerning five works of art which have been in the care of the National Gallery and which have been issued export licences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19947/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: British Exit from the European Union (5 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: Are they allies?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: British Exit from the European Union (5 Jul 2016)

Joan Burton: From Syriza to Farage.