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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Legal Cases Data (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Burton: The information requested is currently being compiled within the Department and will be made available to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Burton: I am aware of two staff members employed in my Department on the basis of Contracts of Indefinite Duration awarded by the Department. The Deputy will be aware that since 2011 more than 1,700 posts from the Community Welfare Services and FAS have been transferred to my Department, along with a significant number of staff who joined the Department using the redeployment arrangements agreed...

Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: As Deputies will probably be aware, this was debated at length in the committee. In response to Deputy Coppinger, the reason the modular housing construction is expensive is because it has such high standards of insulation construction.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: I am sorry, Deputy Coppinger may not have bothered to go down and see them.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: They are available to see.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: The reason they are expensive-----

Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: -----is because they are of a very high standard, and a much higher standard of insulation than a lot of traditional build houses.

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: The Deputy has set out on Leaders' Questions a series of very detailed questions relating to a specific institution - NAMA - that is answerable to the Committee of Public Accounts. The Deputy is, I suppose, using a trick deployed by lawyers. He is asking a question and he is very confident he knows the answer to it but I have had no notice of it.

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: In all honesty, I cannot conceivably-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: -----answer it.

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: I cannot answer those questions. If Deputy Wallace is serious about getting an answer to those questions, although I presume what he is really trying to do is publicise-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: He is naming people I do not know. I do not know who these people are, although I have seen some of the names in the public domain.

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: The Deputy expects me to answer these questions. He really ought to go to the Committee of Public Accounts and if he has evidence of wrongdoing, he should take it to the Garda.

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: He should take it to the authorities in Northern Ireland-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: -----and in any other jurisdiction where he is claiming to have evidence of wrongdoing.

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: I am not in a position to answer-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: I care very deeply.

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: I care deeply that our system of construction and banking collapsed and the Irish people were left with a significant debt because of the loss of value.

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: The subsequent sale and recovery-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: Deputy Mathews has told us on many occasions how he helped liquidate a failed banking situation some decades ago. In all failures in banking and in business, unfortunately there is a loss of value.