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Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Yes, I will. Where is the Minister's radicalism gone that she is leaving these thousands of people in no man's land? The commission will proceed; it will now be another year before it reports. Half the people affected will be dead before it ever does so.

Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I am glad that the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Catherine Byrne, is present as she has a long-standing interest in this issue and much detailed knowledge of it. There is a great deal of unhappiness at the fact that there is a further delay. Much of the delay is probably inevitable, but arrangements should be made to deal with a number of issues which I believe...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Did I understand the Minister to say that the programme will be expanded from 150 schools to 300?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: There are thousands of schools in the country. I am really anxious that schools in the delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, system and schools in less well-off areas are able to access this very important programme as soon as possible. Perhaps the Minister could tell us about that. The second point I want to make is that much of Creative Ireland will result in events at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: The reason I am raising the issue of DEIS schools and a living or minimum wage in this and in other questions is this that the young people to whom the Minister has referred, who are at the start of their career working in the arts, find it difficult to get adequate remuneration. The Minister and the Government will be aware that rents are now sky high. If people involved in the arts are to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I am sure the Minister is aware that there is a thriving arts community in Ireland. I know she has met various people. We had a searing presentation a couple of weeks ago from mostly young people working in the arts outlining how precarious and low their income was. The Minister chose to go back to the bank collapse in this country. Happily, I was part of the Government that got the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 8. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of Creative Ireland funding committed for 2019 and 2020; and the committed funding, by county and project, in tabular form. [8691/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Creative Ireland Programme (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister set out the amounts being committed in 2019 and 2020 for Creative Ireland's budget? Will she set out in an ancillary table the committed funding, by county? Will she highlight the significant projects in various parts of the country that Creative Ireland will fund? What interaction, if any, does it have with the Arts Council?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 12. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to figures that found one third of artists and creative practitioners earn less than the national minimum wage; her views on a movement to a living wage for persons working in the arts, culture and heritage sector; the actions she is taking to achieve same; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 13. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of funding for arts and culture to DEIS schools, in tabular form; if she has met with the Department of Education and Skills in relation to the matter; and if a memo has been sent to Government on this matter. [8687/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 15. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to further designate land for national parks and nature reserves; her further plans to expand public access to reasonable and proximate quality open space; the locations of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8688/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council Funding (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 60. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding supplied to an organisation (details supplied) or via the Arts Council in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of men and women, respectively, that qualify for funding from the organisation in each of these years; and the county of residence of each. [8690/19]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: The committee put forward the proposal in part in the context of the information which came into the public domain in relation to the children's hospital and the stunning cost overruns. That is understandable on the part of the committee. Both Secretaries General have at times appeared before the committee. It is not an unreasonable request. While Mr. Watt has now agreed to meet the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: The fact remains that the Secretary General is the Accounting Officer. It is the entitlement of any committee of the Dáil to seek to have the presence of the Accounting Officer. That is a well-established precedent. We all understand people who are Accounting Officers are very busy people and, of course, there is the matter of the Secretary General arranging his diary. Nobody is...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Why will the Minister not bring the letter to the House and give it to us?

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I find the response of the Minister to be really disappointing. The Minister, in this Oireachtas, has railed against the Judiciary and described appointments to it as not being appropriate, yet he is now talking about a regulatory situation where the regulator, appointed and selected by the Minister, is absolutely mired in conflicts of interest. It is responsible for planning and for being...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Anybody who represents residents of areas close to Dublin Airport will know that the airport is critically important to the economic life of the area and the whole Dublin region. It is one of the major factors in the region's growth. It is also a major cash cow for Fingal County Council in terms of the rates base it constitutes. Anybody who was a member of Dublin County Council, as it was...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I am sure the Minister of State will agree that this legislation is the vehicle for data sharing. A key element of the available databases is the database that is acquired via the public services card. Prior to there being such a card, data were acquired in different ways through the direct collection of information and multiple uses of the data were allowed. However, this Government has...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I am sorry. If the Minister of State is now saying that he will pay attention to it, I welcome that clarification.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I welcome the Minister of State's clarification.