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Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: First Stage (21 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for certain changes in relation to discrimination on grounds of religion in certain educational establishments; for that purpose to amend the Equal Status Act 2000; and to provide for connected matters. Children benefit from meeting and getting to know children from various backgrounds and religions in school....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (21 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 423. To ask the Minister for Health when he will make available support services from an organisation to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17171/16]

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Was yesterday's report in the media wrong?

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: This concerns future legislation.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: It is important to women in Ireland.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I join colleagues in saying that the families of those bereaved by what happened in Berkeley a year ago are in our thoughts and prayers today. Many of those who were injured are on a long road to recovery and I hope they make as full a recovery as possible. There were reports in the media yesterday that child benefit would no longer automatically be paid to mothers under proposals which...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Women in Ireland would be outraged if the payment on a monthly basis of child benefit in respect of children were changed. I would be horrified if Fianna Fáil were to support this proposal, which would be very damaging to families.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Will the Tánaiste reassure the House that the reports in the newspapers yesterday were wrong?

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: My second question is on the education Estimate which was published yesterday and debated last night. As in the budget last year, the Estimate includes funding of €2 million which is set aside for the technological universities. It is now 126 days since any legislation was passed by Dáil Éireann. What has happened to the Technological Universities Bill?

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: The technological institutes and colleges in Ireland are major drivers of education and investment and business development.

Order of Business (16 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Can the Tánaiste say when it is proposed to reintroduce the Technological Universities Bill? Are major changes proposed under the programme for Government?

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I invite the Minister to visit some of the schools in Dublin West where there are as many as 70 different nationalities, reflective of significant religious and faith diversity, and see how separating children in terms of the school day for a particular subject would be a really bad idea. It is one on which the Minister needs to reflect.

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: This is the same document that was published at budget time.

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I know they are unchanged but we are in the sixth month of the financial year. We should have been able to get these in the middle of March but this was not possible. However, we should then have been able to get them almost immediately following the formation of the Government and yet they were published this morning. I note in the book we were offered that there are only four Votes,...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I wish the Minister well in his appointment to the education portfolio. He has expressed an interest in becoming Minister for Education and Skills from time to time and I hope that, now that he is Minister, he will enjoy it. It is 100 years since the Easter Rising, and many of the signatories of the Proclamation who were executed after the Rising, from James Connolly to Pádraig Pearse...

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: That is to the detriment of small and medium-sized companies in almost every country.

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: As we have heard from Deputies Fleming and Brophy, the all-party committee argues that the proposal offends against the principal of subsidiarity. With respect, I do not see how it does so. Subsidiarty is defined such that in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence, the Union can act only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action cannot be sufficiently...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (15 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: It appears from all the statements being made about housing development that this particular part of Fingal, and the rest of Fingal, will be the largest area of housing development in the county generally over the next period of time and yet the Minister appears in terms of the reply to be washing his hands of the issue with no concern. Developers did very well out of the people in the area....

Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (15 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Seven beaches were closed in north County Dublin during the recent spell of fine weather which the rest of the country was celebrating. Beaches that are well known and were named for their beauty such as Velvet Strand were closed because faecal waste, nappies and so on were floating in the water owing to heavy rain, as a result of which the pumping stations were overflowing. It seems...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Perhaps the Minister could make a copy available to the committee?