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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the need for permanent accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53002/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (13 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the entitlements of persons qualifying for the long-term illness scheme; if provision is made for persons within this category to be included in vocational training opportunities and employment schemes; and the circumstances in which persons qualifying under the scheme could be deemed eligible for workplace programmes and training courses on which they do...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: The Minister, as the responsible office holder who is enabling funding for this industry to be increased from €300 million to €500 million, has failed to answer in any reasonable way in respect of areas for which she is responsible and which are currently the subject of significant scandal. This scandal has the capacity to damage Ireland's international reputation at a time...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister of State. I can almost hear his sighs.Maybe he is just being a bit of an actor.

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister of State.

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, frequently seems to have a problem when people like myself speak. That is his problem not mine. Can the Minister tell us what she proposes to do for the industry and whether she proposes to address what everybody knows is a difficulty in the industry? Unless it is addressed by a mechanism which has been offered to her, it will continue to damage...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I do not wish to obstruct in any way the passage of the Bill, but in the context of shortly proceeding to Report Stage, I demand the Minister consider the three amendments before her. Two of the amendments are related to reports, while mine proposes that a committee be established under the aegis of the board. The creation of a committee is in order because the Title of the legislation is...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Yes, but the Ceann Comhairle will agree that in all the different boards which our State has established since its foundation many years ago, boards which are established have committees of the boards and they are recognised and acknowledged because our Constitution says workers have rights to organise and to be protected. When I was Tánaiste and Fine Gael was in government, it agreed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: For the 25% who are on the higher rate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: For the top 25%.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Ryan Tubridy was a lot easier.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Does the Taoiseach agree that a lot of people who are in mortgage difficulties, including those people whose mortgages were sold over their heads from PTSB to an investment vehicle administered by Pepper Finance with the agreement of the Taoiseach's Minister for Finance, must feel sick at the derisory level of penalties levelled on a former banking executive in the Irish Nationwide Building...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: He has a 75% shareholding.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: He had approval so he had a role in it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A on the economy last met. [50552/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach cited examples of women in either hospital and what might happen to them. If a pregnant woman in St. Vincent's Hospital is in danger of dying due to a heart attack, will she be moved to the maternity hospital for a termination if that is what will save her life or could staff with conscientious objections on the general hospital side simply not offer her what should be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach clarify where his Government stands with regard to the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street? It has a long tradition of care. As somebody who had a baby in Holles Street, I can personally testify to that. When we were in government, there was a strong understanding between the Labour Party and the Taoiseach's party, as the bigger party in that coalition, that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Construction Contracts (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on completing works committed to under a construction project (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if these works will be expedited. [51825/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Data (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time children are waiting for speech therapy and occupational therapy services after assessment for developmental language disorder a nationally; the comparable length of time for the Dublin 15 area; the number of children on such a waiting list nationally and in the Dublin 15 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51511/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time children are waiting for services in terms of speech and occupational therapy after assessment for a developmental language disorder at national level; the comparable length of time for the Dublin 15 area; and the number of children on such a waiting list nationally and in the Dublin 15 area, respectively. [51566/18]