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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 761. To ask the Minister for Health if an aged based analysis of nursing staff employed in the HSE by grade will be provided in tabular form (details supplied). [13409/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 762. To ask the Minister for Health if an aged based analysis of nursing staff employed in section 38 organisations by grade will be provided in tabular form (details supplied). [13410/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 763. To ask the Minister for Health if an aged based analysis of nursing staff employed in section 39 organisations by grade will be provided in tabular form (details supplied). [13411/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 764. To ask the Minister for Health if an aged based analysis of nursing staff employed in private sector organisations by grade and parameters (details supplied) will be provided in tabular form. [13412/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Data (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 1203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated number of children who will be in ECCE in September 2019, by year of birth and local authority. [13430/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Reviews (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 1214. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will publish the independent review of the cost of delivery of quality childcare; and if it will be published before Easter 2019 at the latest. [14066/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Consultancy Contracts Data (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 1215. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the purpose of the payments; the date of the original contract; if the contract is ongoing; if not, the date of completion; and if the review or report has been published. [14067/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 1395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide funding to ensure the continuation of services by an organisation (details supplied) in view of the fact that funding has previously been allocated for the work and projects of the organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13255/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: I welcome Professor Lane and wish him good luck in his new appointment, on which I congratulate him. It is a significant appointment not just for him personally, but for Ireland. We are in the tenth year since the banking collapse. Professor Lane will agree that ordinary people in Ireland made many sacrifices to bail out the banks. Many people lost their jobs and many took wage reductions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: When Mr. Sibley says "variable pay", does he mean bonuses or bonus-type pay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: In other words, it is performance, results-based pay. I will also put this question to the Governor. Something plaguing Europe's democratic institutions, which is, ultimately, a risk for the Central Bank and the European Central Bank system, is populism, which is partly driven by insecurity, precarious employment and the fact that some people are doing awfully well in a global financial...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector Funding (13 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 325. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans regarding the 12 volunteer centres for 2019 for which the allocations were significantly below an amount in a particular centre (details supplied); the options under consideration to ensure these centres are sufficiently funded; if the necessary funding will be granted; and the timeframe in which a decision may be reached....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Standards (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 588. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of on-site audits carried out by her Department or on its behalf on ECCE providers in each of the years 2015 to 2018; the attendance records of those children for which payment was made; the proportion of providers audited in each of the years in question; and if she will provide a detailed analysis of the results of these...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 589. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is the policy of her Department, or the agents under the remit of her Department, to check all PPS numbers of children supplied by ECCE providers with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that the numbers quoted are correct and that the children are eligible and resident here; if so, the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 590. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is the policy of her Department, or the agents under the remit of her Department, to check all PPS numbers of children supplied by ECCE providers with the Department of Education and Skills to confirm that the children are not also registered as pupils in a national school; the number of PPS numbers checked in each of the years...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Data (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 591. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff in her Department engaged on the audit of funded programmes; the level of qualifications of each, for example, part or fully qualified accountants; and the number of on-site audits carried out for each of the programmes managed by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2018. [11481/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: I welcome the witnesses. I cannot quite grasp what Mr. Tobin means by "culture". It sounds very nice but my experience is that a financial institution is usually a very powerful one and individual customers, whether a single person taking out his or her first mortgage or a couple buying a house, are very much at a disadvantage. Years ago, the culture was such that a person could barely get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: I do not know if the Department has done any research into this, but professional landlords are driving rents very high and this is a significant economic factor. While the numbers in this market are small compared to more traditional investors, such as mortgage holders who buy residential property for a family, they are driving rents up to much higher levels, which means a three-bedroomed...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of state aid that will be made available in the event of a no-deal hard Brexit; the provision that is provided for same in the Revised Estimates; if she has sought permission from the European Commission for aid to specific sectors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9964/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 41. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of state aid that will be made available in the event of a no-deal hard Brexit; the provision provided for same in the Revised Estimates; if she has sought permission from the European Commission for aid to specific sectors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10636/19]