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

Joan Burton: Is this not so different from the bankers?

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements when he attended the United Nations in New York. [30086/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the foreign visits he will undertake from September to December 2018. [30088/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he has planned with heads of government and heads of state over the next six months. [38649/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with his Austrian counterpart since Austria assumed the EU Presidency. [30676/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A (economy) last met. [37047/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Pope Francis during his visit to Ireland in August 2018. [37048/18]

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: It was discussed on "Love Island".

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Approximately a week ago, the UK Labour Party's spokesperson on Brexit, Mr. Keir Starmer, MP, addressed an all-party meeting in the Oireachtas. He quoted part of what he wrote in an article in The Irish Timesin which he stated:More of the same simply will not do. We need a fresh approach, one that recognises it is only through a combination of a new customs union, a strong single market deal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if commissions of investigation under the aegis of his Department have been allocated additional funding as a consequence of the wind-down of the strategic communications unit, SCU. [29281/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I found the Taoiseach's reply on health issues and the health budget overrun to be helpless and hopeless because, notwithstanding his experience of that Department, he is throwing in the towel on being able to influence it. When the SCU was closed down, there was an indication, as the Taoiseach said in his reply, that there would be significant savings. In respect of the commission of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, last met. [30674/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, last met. [38378/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Has the Cabinet committee on health met to discuss the health budget? There are constant leaks to the newspapers that the likely level of deficit in the health service will run anywhere from €800 million to €1 billion this year. I do not know how a functioning Minister for Health can be in charge of a Department where that level of overspend, that lack of control and that lack...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Council (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the British-Irish Council in Guernsey. [30087/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Council (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: I note that the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, did not attend the summit. In his conversations with Mrs. May, has the Taoiseach suggested that her attendance at the British-Irish Council could be valuable for understanding the difficulties and likely impacts of a difficult Brexit for the island of Ireland, North and South, and Scotland and Wales, which were represented by their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Learner Protection Fund (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the recognised schools that will be exempted from paying into the proposed learner protection fund with regard to the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018; the criteria a school must reach to gain recognition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38335/18]

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: As somebody who uses Dublin Bus a lot and has done for all my life, I must say there are welcome areas of the proposals, such as the new orbital route, the fare and the 90 minute period. That would bring us into line with other European cities and those positive elements of the plan could go forward almost immediately and would build confidence in the proposals. I am concerned about the...

BusConnects: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: It has great loyalty from customers and, from a commercial point of view, it is a well known and valuable brand. I have no idea why one would ditch a valuable brand in favour of a complete unknown that means nothing to most Dubliners. The development of the app for Dublin Bus, the real-time information at the bus stops and the Leap card, all of which were done some years ago when we were in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: In the context of Mr. Coffey's overall brief, does he find it extraordinary that at this point we are fairly certain there will be a minimum €600 million overspend in the Department of Health? There is quite a lot of speculation, probably reasonably well informed, that it may be much closer to €1 billion. I do not know if the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has oversight on how...