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Sale of Illicit Goods Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: I thank Deputy Breathnach for bringing this proposal for legislation before the House. As Deputies from Border areas know, there is a further expansion and explosion of illicit trade at the moment. We are approaching Christmas, which is the most important period for many retail businesses in Ireland for selling goods and making a living, yet due to the illicit trade, especially along the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his contact with Prime Minister May. [43837/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D (infrastructure) last met. [38376/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (24 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU Heads of Government meeting in Austria on 19 and 20 September 2018. [38377/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Bord Gáis Privatisation (24 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specific use to which the €400 million proceeds from the sale of Bord Gáis has been put; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43832/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review existing public procurement contracts in view of the liquidation and insolvencies of over 40 construction firms since the beginning of 2018 due to losses incurred from public contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43833/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (24 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when legislation to increase the compulsory retirement age for public servants will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43831/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (24 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans in respect of the establishment of a supplementary pension in relation to public service pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43834/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, last met. [37672/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he has concerns regarding Government leaks, particularly regarding the Scally inquiry. [39901/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 101. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the work in investigating and identifying a resolution to the funding of pay restoration in section 39 organisations in which the staff took pay cuts in line with their counterparts in the public service at the onset of the fiscal crisis but did not receive pay restoration in line with their public service counterparts; the work done to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will apportion out the cost to the Exchequer of budget 2018 changes to the standard rate threshold and reduction in the USC rate between income tax cases below €70,000 and above €70,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43524/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2019 (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school staffing measures announced in his Department's budget for 2019 (details supplied). [43204/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no provision was made in budget 2019 for further restoration of promoted posts at assistant principal level in primary and post-primary schools; the number of posts at the equivalent of AP1 and AP2 level, respectively which were suppressed through the emergency era moratorium; the current shortfall in restoring these posts; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Supply (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which his attention has been drawn to the problems in filling substitute teacher positions in order to cover long-term absences in primary schools; and his plans to address this issue. [43206/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down in tabular form the number of new apprenticeship registrations in each employment sector and subsector in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to 30 October 2018 for all craft based and consortia led apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43470/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a permanent school site has been acquired for a school (details supplied); when the school will be built and open; and if arrangements have been made in the interim to provide the necessary prefabs for the school at its location. [43946/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expenditure, excluding salaries, on each Garda station in County Louth in the past five years; the requests made by the individual stations in County Louth for expenditure; the criteria by which funding was allocated to the relevant station or stations that received funding from the State; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the process under way to extend the land aggregation scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the need for such a scheme in respect of Louth County Council lands at Mullavalley, Louth village, Kilkerley, Ballymakenny, Mount Avenue and Point Road in view of the inability of the local authority to develop...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (23 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: 695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the impact of outstanding loans in respect of purchase by Louth County Council lands at Mullavalley, Louth village, Kilkerley, Ballymakenny, Mount Avenue and Point Road on the budgetary position of Louth County Council on an annual basis; if his Department wishes for Louth County Council to...