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Dublin (North Inner City) Development Authority Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: The Labour Party will support the legislation, but we have many reservations about elements of it. We need a discussion on what is happening in Dublin's north inner city. The first principle of the legislation is that it needs to define the area. I know the Bill is very much inspired by the Mulvey report, but the area identified in the Bill is roughly two and a half times the area...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Sector Reform Implementation (14 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Over the past two nights, RTÉ showed two riveting programmes about what happened to Sergeant Maurice McCabe, his wife, Lorraine, and their family. Did the Taoiseach get a chance to watch these programmes by Katie Hannon? They are required viewing for anybody interested in how Irish public administration and reform work. I expect them to be on management and university courses in the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (14 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Óglaigh na hÉireann will still be Óglaigh na hÉireann.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (14 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: That is good to know. It is helpful.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (14 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank the Taoiseach for the reply, which indicates that the strategic communications unit lives on, perhaps in a ghost-like form similar to a hologram that can be seen at the back of the image. Given what the Taoiseach stated, will all individual Department identities ultimately be dropped and subsumed into the Government of Ireland identity? I believe many citizens would not like that...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Reform Programme (14 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: On the country-specific recommendations and the national reform programme, there is a call for specific emphasis on resolving long-term non-performing loans through resolution strategies, that is, making provision for write-downs to allow indebted homeowners to resolve their debt and be able to secure their family home. The same would be true for viable businesses, as is referenced in the...

African Development (Bank and Fund) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: The future of Africa is central to the future of the planet. As Africa, hopefully, enters a period of renaissance continent-wide, we must interrogate what this Bill proposes to do for, and in partnership with, it. Will it represent a positive development in Ireland's relationship with Africa or will it turn our development co-operation programme and Irish Aid into a more exploitative...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: To comment on the last point, I produced a similar case to the Taoiseach not long ago of a tradesman married to a hairdresser with her own business. Their only child is ten years old which means their childcare costs are not as high. They meet all the criteria and yet they have been turned down. Some time ago, I asked the Taoiseach about meetings of the Cabinet committee on security and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: What about the report on the future of policing?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: That is totally different.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the backstop agreement. Has he seen a legal draft of it? Has Mr. Barnier proposed such a legal paper or draft which has been shown to the Taoiseach or to Irish officials, or other representatives? Does he believe he still has bullet-proof proposals on the backstop? What is his desired deadline for agreement on Brexit? Is it the December Council meeting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting and conversation with Mr. Michel Barnier. [46824/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting and discussion with Mr. Donald Tusk. [46825/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 133. To ask the Taoiseach the advisers and constituency staff working for him both in respect of his role as Taoiseach and in respect of his role as a constituency Member; and if he will list all appointments in 2017 and to date in 2018. [46843/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public sector reforms he plans to pursue. [46827/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gender Equality (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 663. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the latest report in respect to the gender pay gap in the fields of theatre and culture; the median wage for female and male workers, respectively in theatre, culture and the arts; the average salary of the top 20% of female and male actors, respectively; the average salary of the lower 20% of female and male...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gender Equality (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 665. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to support the ongoing work of an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46895/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Concert Hall (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 664. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timetable of the reconstruction and development of the National Concert Hall; if it will be closed during the course of the development; if alternative arrangements for the National Concert Hall have been made for the closure period; if she has held discussions with the National Concert Hall on the matter; the timetable and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: I welcome Mr. Draghi. Ten years after 2008, does the ECB admit errors in its own conduct after the crash? The IMF, one of the ECB's sister organisations, did and published new guidelines. What of the ECB, not least in its conduct in Ireland, where it was probably the most rigid and most conservative of all three troika members? I appreciate Mr. Draghi was not president then. We are all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Sometimes the next crisis arises from the failure to deal with the current crisis which may not be as big as 2008. Housing and the affordability of a place to live is a factor in many European cities. As Mr. Draghi knows, next Sunday is the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One and I mention the failure to allow people to have dividends in their ordinary lives in the aftermath of...