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

Joan Burton: Will the Minister, therefodre, support the Labour Party's campaign?

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

Joan Burton: 31. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will support the Labour Party’s budget campaign to retain the additional capital and current funding allocated for the 1916 Rising commemoration in the general arts budget from 2017 onwards to systematically restore funding to the arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13682/16]

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

Joan Burton: I wish the Minister well in her brief. I asked if she would support the Labour Party's campaign to ensure the capital allocation for the 1916 Rising commemorations, which involve important work at cultural institutions such as the National Gallery of Ireland, was maintained in future years as a national endowment for the arts. I do not know whether she is aware that salaries, for instance,...

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

Joan Burton: Has the Minister had discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Finance to maintain the funding, both capital and current, allocated for the 1916 Rising commemorations? The Minister has cited examples of good events which we all have attended, but we need a serious national endowment for the arts. They suffered disproportionately, partly because a...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: To help the process, can we get an indication from the clerk the information that will be made available to us? If we are going to make a scrutiny of both the tax and expenditure sides, there is a list of things we will absolutely need in terms of total profiles for expenditure and total profiles of likely tax receipts. We will need those broken down on a departmental basis. That is the...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I might not have been clear enough. I am not asking for that information now. I am asking that the framework would have a commitment to getting that information.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: We have actually got through a good deal, and there is much common agreement. For example, we agree that there should be a social impact poverty assessment in the budget. We also agree that there should be gender-based budgeting, which would consider the impact on men and women, but we must also consider the impact on people of different ages, particularly older people. All of these are...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: The corollary is that what Deputy Howlin referred to yesterday was obviously because of the election and the hiatus after it. We are now in our sixth month of the financial year for this year and nothing has happened in the Dáil in respect of the Estimates. That was Deputy Howlin’s point. It was not really about last year’s Estimates. We are very far into this year....

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: I refer to my first point. We need agreement on what the data flow to this committee will be because we will not be able to do anything without it. Deputy Doherty made the same point.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: When will we know whether we will have a Minister for the environment? Does the Taoiseach agree that while a Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government is certainly appropriate, having no Minister with the title "environment" in Government, given the age in which we live, is a mistake in the programme for Government? Equally, culture has disappeared, the arts are downgraded and...

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: Similarly, very important for rural and regional development, the Technological Universities Bill is again almost finished, but I did not hear it mentioned in the list outlined by the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: When will it be finalised?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for three additional classrooms and other refurbishment works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12729/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline how parents can make a submission to his Department regarding the patronage of new second level schools in the Dublin 15 area; if he is aware of the new second level school to be built in the Carpenterstown Castleknock area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12942/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans for the provision of new post-primary schools in the Ongar and Littlepace areas in Dublin 15 in the five-year school building programme for 2016-21; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12943/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the initial design plans for the new build in respect of the three schools (details supplied) have been drawn up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13247/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Services (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 358. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the supports in place for the development and protection of county archive services to preserve local cultural patrimony. [13610/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 366. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the commission on water charges is to be established; the nature of the applications process for members of the public to apply for membership of the commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12757/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Reform (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 367. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline any review of election postering regulations by his Department, given the move by other jurisdictions to ban postering in public places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12759/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: School Accommodation Provision (31 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 391. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to ensure there is a permanent location available for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13230/16]