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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagement with the DUP. [4208/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: It may turn out to be an historical tragedy that the people in Northern Ireland who voted to remain have not been represented and that the Executive in Northern Ireland has not been reconvened. We all understand there are political difficulties in this regard, but the consequences of Brexit are so great that those difficulties need to be addressed and overcome, and they can be. In view of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (30 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 249. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the number of adoption records not in the possession of the State has been identified; the location in which the records are kept; if she has requested the records; her plans to secure same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4556/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Illegal Adoptions (30 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 250. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of the 126 cases of illegal registration of adopted children identified from an organisation (details supplied) that have been contacted; the number that have been offered counselling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4557/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Illegal Adoptions (30 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 251. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of cases of possible illegal registration identified from the review in 2010 by the Adoption Authority of Ireland using data from the National Adoption Contact Preference Register and cross referencing it with the GRO; the number of cases profiled; if this information was provided to her Department; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Illegal Adoptions (30 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 252. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the validation exercise with respect to 140 cases of illegal registrations of adoption reported to her Department by the Adoption Authority of Ireland; if this includes 90 cases reported in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4559/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Measures (30 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 253. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will advance to Committee Stage in Seanad Éireann the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4560/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Illegal Adoptions (30 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 254. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of cases that have been sampled as part of the scoping exercise on illegal registration of adoptions; the methodology being used for the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4561/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Illegal Adoptions (30 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 255. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has been informed by the independent chair of the scoping exercise on illegal registrations of adoptions the sample size of the study and the methodology being used; if it was communicated to or approved by officials in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4562/19]

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: This Bill is what one might describe as virtue-signalling. In other words the Minister for Finance and the Department of Finance want to send out a message that times have changed and that we hope not to go back the time of the bank guarantee when all the parties in the House, with the exception of the Labour Party, voted for this guarantee. It was probably one of the biggest mistakes ever...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: I do not think there is any doubt that one of the greatest scandals of this Administration's term is the overrun relating to the children's hospital. People are scandalised by it and how the figures have moved in this extraordinary way. Does the Taoiseach have an upper limit regarding what the hospital is going to cost? Hospitals are often broadly priced in the context of the cost per...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: I did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: On the recommendation of the then Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: So 80% would be landlord-let housing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met; and when it will meet next. [4207/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: The legislation on Brexit will the most important, complex and technical to come before the Dáil for quite a number of years. The only more significant legislation I can recall in recent history is the ill-fated bank guarantee and the NAMA legislation. When we are talking about very complex legislation, if we fail to have adequate scrutiny and understanding of it, we often end up with...

Informal Adoptions (Regularisation) Bill 2019: First Stage (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: The Minister for Finance stated that he would raise an extra €100 million-----

Informal Adoptions (Regularisation) Bill 2019: First Stage (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the regularisation of the legal status of persons informally adopted in the State; and to provide for connected matters. Adoption was first introduced to Ireland and regulated by the Adoption Act 1952. There was no lawful adoption in Ireland before 1952. For a period after that date, there was a widespread...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: As the Taoiseach will be aware, in his and my constituency, Dublin West, there have been meetings of hundreds of parents who have children affected by autism and behavioural disorders. We have put a proposal to Government regarding provision of a special facility for children on the high end of the autism spectrum who, by and large, cannot find places in the ASD special classes because their...