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

Joan Burton: First, I welcome the statement the Minister, Deputy Noonan, made about the role of the committee and giving due consideration, as well as the opening statement on the historic opportunity to enhance the relationship between the Government and the Oireachtas. The key to this will be the timeliness of information and its adequacy. In that context, I ask the Minister whether certain areas of...

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

Joan Burton: Very well. I have made this point at this committee previously but in terms of ground rules, the timeliness, amount and quality of the information are key to the successful relationship the Ministers envisage in their submission to the committee. A second proposal would be to consider the monthly statements at the end of the month and the subsequent expenditure reports that are produced by...

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

Joan Burton: No, they are published. I refer to the expenditure profiles that go to the Cabinet; the detailed reports that go to the Cabinet in respect of each Department, where the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform reports on them. I propose they should be published, say, ten days after going to the Cabinet because they contain key data. While the information in some cases is tentative and...

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

Joan Burton: This is to both Ministers because there are tax profiles, which leads me to my next question. On the details of taxation, the most important issue is to have information about the costings and profiles on tax, and this point relates to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. All Departments make bids at various times during the year and continually regarding things they would like...

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

Joan Burton: The Minister might explain what the problem was in terms of a good submission by the Government.

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

Joan Burton: One of the questions I asked was whether the Minister would be agreeable to publishing the information that goes to Cabinet in relation to the expenditure profiles and expenditure reports, because they are done regularly. I appreciate that before they go to Cabinet these are confidential, but once they have gone to Cabinet, why would they not be available, particularly for a committee such...

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

Joan Burton: I proposed that we have a debate.

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

Joan Burton: On a related point, there is a programme for Government that is not costed. Since the Government is up and running for some time, I presume it has costings for a range of commitments, if not for every Department. Obviously, the Department of Health is a morass but if the costings for most of the other Departments were made available to us, it would ease the process. We want the public to...

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

Joan Burton: Yes. Are we meeting again at 3 p.m.?

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

Joan Burton: Will there be a piece of paper?

Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I wish Deputy Eoghan Murphy all the best in his very important new job. This is in a certain sense a technical Bill to give effect to the framework and structures of the European bank recapitalisation arrangements. It has been a very slow process. In respect of what the previous speaker said about the European Union and its response to the banking crisis, it was very disappointing. I...

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Only last week we were given the list of legislation so will the Taoiseach clarify exactly what is happening? It is a really important area as it concerns the type of access that children, including those who may not have been baptised and whose parents do not profess a particular religious faith, will have, if any, to the local school system.

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: On the same issue, with regard to the priority legislation listed for publication this session, there is the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill, which is about the provisions regarding the enrolment of pupils in schools and a requirement for schools to operate enrolment policies in a transparent fashion. The pre-legislative scrutiny took place in March 2014, but from the conversations and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 32. To ask the Minister for Health if he has undertaken a cost-benefit analysis of the re-activation of the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if he will publish this; the number of patients who will be treated in public beds using the fund; how he will ensure that the diverting of millions of euro in funding from the public health system will address the underlying causes of excessive waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 80. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the allocation of €5 million in funding to recruit up to 100 psychologists and councillors to develop psychological services for persons under 18 years of age will be spent; and the timeframe for the delivery of these services. [13739/16]

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Recently, the economist, Dan O’Brien, noted that the economy has increased employment more in the past four years than in the 70 years from 1926 to 1996. It would be sad if we in Ireland failed to learn from the near death experience of eight years ago. For this reason, I urge the parties in this Chamber to engage in new politics and support the concrete set of proposals by the...

Other Questions: National Monuments (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: No.

Other Questions: National Monuments (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: The Minister will recall that as Tánaiste, I fought very hard to get the funding to have the particular houses taken over, which was a very significant step. Now that there is a new Government and the Minister has returned to the Department and given what she said about the significance of heritage, is there not an opportunity at this point to open the dialogue out? As probably the...

Other Questions: National Monuments (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: To expand on what Deputy Ó Cuív said, the programme for Government states that the Government will develop and publish an updated national heritage plan. I suggest that is an opportunity to take a broader view and develop a broader vision of the appropriate conservation and heritage of 1916 Dublin. We could have a more inclusive discussion so that we might get past the impasse. At...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: Has the Minister met the Department yet?