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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State is going to have to enlighten us all because he is in charge of this. Would it take, in the context of the housing emergency, eight weeks to get a proposal ready on the part of a county council? In terms of the Department, which has a lot more staff and expertise, would that take about six weeks? Could the Minister of State tell us if it is his view that his...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Fifty nine weeks.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Mr. Brendan Kenny, the deputy chief executive of Dublin City Council, is well regarded by everybody who has an interest in housing over a very long period of time. He has suggested - I would seriously listen to him even if the Minister of State wanted to give him a kicking - that the cost for procurement is approximately €300,000 in the way the Minister of State's Department is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: If we all get pen and paper, I am sure we could merge and blend some of these steps. There was a time when Fine Gael' slogan in an election was to burn all of the quangos. Now, Fine Gael resorts simply to bureaucratic gobbledygook. There are people who know all about building and all the Minister of State is talking about are steps, and then he falls back on it being DEPR's fault. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: What about Dominick Street?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I did not say he did.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to raise the issue of the comment by a public official on the cost of public procurement and the time public procurement takes in the context of a housing project in Dublin that will cost nearly €500,000 per unit.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: What about on national security-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee F, national security, last met. [30675/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Did I hear the Taoiseach correctly in saying the committee met last February?

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: With all the difficulties besetting the Garda and given the important matters of national security, as well as Brexit issues, I find it unusual that such an important committee would meet so infrequently. We could also bear in mind that we have had a change of Garda Commissioner, among other changes in the Garda. I ask about the long-standing discussion about how national security be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I am conscious that we are meeting in the week of the tenth anniversary of the bank guarantee. In this context, is the Minister's Department seeking or has it sought to recruit consultants with a view to reviewing bankers' pay? Their current limitation, I think, is around the €500,000 mark. I understand there has been some avid pre-budget lobbying on the part of bankers to stress...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Have we learned anything? I am aware of the L'Oréal principle - it is because they are worth it - but does the Minister really think these people in sharp suits are worth €500,000 a year each? I am outraged that the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform between them would literally turn their backs on any learning we might have had from the time when the boom...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Excuse me. When I sat around the Cabinet table, I insisted-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I do like to be reminded of it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister propose to compensate people on social welfare for the impact of the proposed increased carbon taxes, which would hit people on social welfare, particularly pensioners, extremely hard? Does this in effect mean we can anticipate that everyone who receives a weekly social welfare income will see a €5 a week increase? I cannot see how the Minister can do less than that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I have one further brief question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to raise an issue I have raised with both the Minister and the Taoiseach on a number of occasions, that is, the question of the section 39 hospice organisations. As he will be aware, hospitals recruit on a particular basis. Hospital staff of various grades have been the beneficiaries of the pay restoration, which was initiated when I was in government. However, the hospices recruit...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: This is an important issue. People are dying in all the cities and we cannot sort it out.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: The WRC process is under way. The hospices are not part of that because the people they recruit are members of nursing bodies, doctors' unions and other unions related to health service staff. That means that currently, as I understand it, most recently from the lead SIPTU negotiator, a broad framework offer has been put on the table by the Government, which I believe has been welcomed by...