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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagement with the DUP. [47391/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Electoral Process (27 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the role his officials had in the interdepartmental group into regulating transparency in online political advertising. [48842/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [47390/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: Like many people in the Oireachtas, I have been out canvassing and campaigning on the north and south sides of Dublin in advance of the upcoming by-elections. In Dublin Mid-West, since campaigning for the by-elections began less than four weeks ago, a man was killed in horrific circumstances and the car in which he was found was blown up in a fireball. This happened in Lucan. The Taoiseach...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Data (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 131. To ask the Taoiseach the remittances from Ireland, net and gross as appropriate, to countries around the world in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019 in tabular form. [48338/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Retention of Records Bill 2019: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I thank all those who came in today to lay out the facts that are known to many people but not necessarily to everybody. Essentially the witnesses are recommending not proceeding with the Bill. The advice given by successive Attorneys General has been that a promise was made and a commitment was entered into at the time the then Minister for Education and Science, Michael Woods, did a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Retention of Records Bill 2019: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I have one short supplementary question. Perhaps Ms Crowe might be able to answer it. The threat to people who are in government was that if there is not some legislation like this, the imperative would be to destroy the records. There has been a genuine fear on the part of many, given what people with particular views in this area have done in the past. Does Ms Crowe think realistically...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services Provision (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: This is an incredible reflection on the Taoiseach, who as Minister for Health made an announcement in 2015 concerning the Rotunda Hospital, which we all know is a very venerable hospital in old buildings that has provided centuries of care to women and babies in Dublin. According to the Minister of State's reply, it now looks as though it will just get a wave of the hand and be left to carry...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services Provision (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I appreciate that many of the things the Government is involved in are beset by confusion, lack of budgets and lack of management, as highlighted in the discussion on the previous matter. What exactly is happening with the Rotunda, the biggest and oldest maternity hospital in Ireland? It seems like another country since 2015 when the then Minister for Health, and now Taoiseach, announced...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 138. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of his Department in relation to his plans to assist in the funding of the proposed transfer of the Rotunda Maternity Hospital to Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; if he has met with the board of management of the hospital regarding such a move; if his Department has conducted a population analysis of the Dublin 15 area and examined the expected future...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if he has examined a report by a person (detail supplied) that warned that if overcrowding continues it is only a matter of time before more infectious outbreaks occur; his plans to address the issues raised in the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48358/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Television Licence Fee (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: 189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the future of the television licence fee system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48344/19]

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: Go on.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: The Minister and his advisers know that a 0% rate is still a rate of tax. If he wants to persist in the argument that food supplements are different from foods and that fish in oil form, for example, is no longer a food, that is fine. I strongly advise him that if he does proceed with imposing this tax, he should do so at a rate of 0%.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I made my views on this matter clear on Committee Stage. I understand that food supplements are recognised as food under Irish and EU law. Specifically, EU Directive 2002/46/EC on food supplements was enacted in Ireland under statutory instruments in 2007. The health food industry is required to adhere to all food regulations to ensure quality and consumer safety. I understand this is...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: People remember in their childhood being force-fed various kinds of fish oils and, particularly among people on the west coast, seaweed products-----

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ----for coughs and other ailments. They work for many people. If they were being sold in their original food form as generated, they would not be subject to VAT. As such, I fail to see why the Minister would want to do this other than it being a money-raising measure. In a certain sense, he is hiding behind the Revenue Commissioners and getting them to do the work of raising more taxes.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: We want to know whether the Minister is taking or has ever taken a food supplement. Answer "Yes" or "No".

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: One area of taxation of the types of sectors about which we are talking is a financial transactions tax, which would have a massive impact on poorer countries around the world. One of the side effects, perhaps unsought, of the type of tax regime Ireland and Luxembourg have developed is that poorer countries are relieved of their tax earning capacity in respect of raw materials. The Minister...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I have proposed a minimum effective corporation tax rate many times. The recent publication by the OECD that recommended a minimum effective tax rate in parallel to the BEPS process is a warning note to the Government to the effect that this particular regime will not last forever. Assuming that Ireland will continue to be an attractive destination in the EU post Brexit, the Minister will...