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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I will finish on this. The Government is prepared to be tough on teachers' and nurses' salaries. Can the Taoiseach confirm that the Government agrees the bankers' pay cap should be lifted? Will he publish the Korn Ferry report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: There has been enormous consternation and devastation in the local community for the past two weeks. Notwithstanding efforts by the Government and the officials of the Department, we have total disruption in two fine schools where the teachers are completely dedicated to the children. I was there again yesterday viewing the temporary works. These were lovely schools and they are now...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I want to take Mr. Loftus up on that. I contacted the former Minister, Deputy Bruton, on many occasions about having clerks of works on site. Particularly with traditional parish schools, as opposed to some of the new schools, one is relying on the chairman of the board, somebody on the board with some building knowledge and a couple of others to be the building committee. The principal is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: My question is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Both. There has been a huge disruption to the education schedule of the teachers in the two schools. Will arrangements be made to compensate for that? My other question was whether the Minister will be seeking a Supplementary Estimate. There is the disruption to the education side of the schools but it is also to the childcare and sports facilities. Happily, the community centre does not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: It was about an inquiry, but the Minister has partially answered it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Deputy McHugh is not the former Minister yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Can I intervene briefly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: It is a point of information. While people were in a terrible state of devastation, I was up and down in the schools on several occasions during the period.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Much of what the Department did worked but it might have set up a website. Should anything like this ever happen again, maybe the Department should immediately set up a dedicated website.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: May I make a point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: A charge has been made against a former Minister, which I know to be untrue and unreflective. In fact, there is an official here from the Department who may have worked there for some years. If I recall, the then Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, initiated an investigation into practices on sites. I understood Deputy Boyd Barrett to be a fair person but he has not got...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I initiated and got the inspectors in the then Department of Social Protection to visit a range of building sites to check that workers were properly registered for social insurance and tax purposes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Furthermore-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: Allegations have been made against somebody who is not here to defend himself. In terms of my general knowledge, Deputy Boyd Barrett is entirely wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: And now he has run away.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I commented because allegations were made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: No. The truth is important, but Deputy Coppinger might not respect that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)
Joan Burton: I have outlined that an inquiry was created.