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- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Supports (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform 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 he has sought permission from the European Commission for aid to specific sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11295/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: I welcome Mr. Watt and his staff. On the budgetary process, is it correct that capital expenditure proposals are included as tables and information in the budget documentation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Does Mr. Watt accept that people have confidence that this is the likely spending profile of Ireland owing to it being included in the budget documentation? It also gives an indication to the markets of the likely borrowing profile. In turn, it affects how cheaply or expensively the country can borrow, depending on whether the estimates appear to be reasonable or unreasonable. Am I correct...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: When parliamentarians, including the members of this committee, business people and so forth, receive the budget documentation, they do not expect it to be exactly correct because it is a forecast. People understand that, but the scale of the change in the case of the national children's hospital to what had previously been predicted just a short period after the budget was announced has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Would Mr. Watt accept that his statement would be shocking to a lot of people? His assertion that this is a manageable amount and, therefore, it does not matter too much-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Can I just ask the question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Hold on. Can I ask a question please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Does the Department have a weekly management meeting? Do Mr. Watt and his civil servants sit down with the Minister and Ministers of State and go through all of the pertinent financial and other issues related to the Department? This is such a significant project in the Irish context and is so important to the country. It is also such an expensive project, even at the old price, especially...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Yes, but in this case it was not locked down because it was wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Can I ask-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Given the scale of this particular project, there would appear to be relatively few contractors in Ireland who could bid for it. It seems to me that the contractors are able to call the shots on variations, although Mr. Watt has said that they will have to prove their case. Is there an effective cartel in operation among a chosen group of contractors? The Taoiseach was in Lisbon last week...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Who made that comparison?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Do they work in Mr. Watt's Department? If so, they must not know much about building.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (6 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: I thank the Minister of State for his reply but it encapsulates the difficulties that happen for many parents and children in the current system. I appreciate that people within the Department of Education and Skills and the Ministers are trying to improve the situation but it falls down in all sorts of ways throughout the country. For instance, every year in recent years, as the Minister...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (6 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: I appreciate-----
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (6 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: -----the Minister of State's offer and I accept it.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (6 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Can I just say-----
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (6 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: No one would ask a teacher to teach a maths class at primary or secondary level unless he or she had some qualification. This is a specialist field where we need as a country to organise proper education so that we have qualified people teaching who are also dedicated to the children.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training Provision (6 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: This is the fourth or fifth time I have raised issues related to the incidence autism with various Ministers in the Chamber. I do not know whether the incidence of autism in Ireland is increasing or simply if there is a better, more detailed diagnosis. This is a significant issue for parents throughout the country. At its heart is how the education of children with autism spectrum...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Multidenominational Schools (6 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: At Pelletstown and Ashtown, 3,000 units of housing have been built in the past ten to 15 years, most of them apartments. There is one primary school on the site and there are other adjacent schools so at the moment they can cope but there is no secondary school for the families who make up a large proportion of the 3,000 households to which I referred. There is a massive need for an...