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Appropriation Bill 2019: All Stages (17 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...under the watch of this Government. The Minister of State's colleague, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, announced that she was astonished that in some cases insurance fees for crèches and such like had increased from €3,000 to €8,000 to €10,000 because of companies leaving the market. A report was published yesterday by the...

Estimates for Public Services 2019: Motion (12 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...of State has come here with the Government accounts. We still have not received any serious explanation in accounting terms of how €24 million paid in taxes by airlines was refunded and recorded as consultancy fees. Could the Minister please explain how such a misstatement of accounting information was included in the Supplementary Estimates? I still have not heard an explanation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (10 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to websites (details supplied) that offer pre-booked appointments at the INIS registration office at Burgh Quay, Dublin 2, for fees ranging from €20 to €50; his views on such practices; the steps being taken to stamp out these practices and to improve the in-house appointments procedure at Burgh Quay; if a...

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: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...worked out, we will still have one of the highest net childcare costs in Europe. I see the Minister smiling. Inevitably the childcare providers will use the modest improvements in the supports for parents with children in preschool and childcare facilities simply to charge extra fees. The newspapers have reported that when parents see an increase in support for childcare, there is an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs Data (28 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: ...guts of €300,000. That is generous and could be minimised. We do not simply want to attract people to Ireland for the purposes of tax avoidance. We are also helping people in this situation with private school fees to the tune of some €5,000. We should continue this conversation so we get to a point where there is an equitable balance in favour of ordinary taxpayers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: ...are small scale structures administrative costs and handling charges are probably very high. Would there be scope for, say, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to pay a fee in respect of each loan generated? This is a vital scheme which helps people, perhaps, following job losses or other financial difficulties, to get back on their feet and also those who have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: ...on social welfare or on a minimum wage income. At the same time the Minister for Health announced a Department of Health variation of the strategic communications unit, that is, a public relations exercise fee of €75,000. Has the Taoiseach, his Minister or his Government any sense of how to address priorities in the Department of Health? Meningitis is a serious public health risk...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (15 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to protect students of English as a foreign language who are paying fees to QQI language schools from further closures which would result in a loss of fees and investment. [54437/18]

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the Minister and the board can consult, such as Quality and Qualifications Ireland. In the private sector of education and training, as I am sure the Minister and her officials are fully aware, a lot of fees are being paid and it is reasonable that students would know that the courses they and their parents are paying for are quality courses that will enable them to get employment in...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (20 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: ...point. I asked about areas which were less well-off and rural areas. We have not heard, in relation to this Bill, details of lobbying by financial service providers. I do not know what the fees are on the allocation of these particular jobs. The Minister may not know but if he is having a study conducted, in all fairness, we should be told about it in order that we can make an...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (20 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: ...will be some genuine oversight of the review, allowing us to consider the pros and cons. I question the wisdom of how some of these structures work. I also wonder how much is paid in recruitment service fees to people making these arrangements or involved in them. In effect, what is the real return? There may be another way of approaching it. We all want to see more jobs, but from what...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (18 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: ...firm which designed BusConnects, is listed as having been paid €407,000. In 2018 to date, the same firm of consultants is listed as having been paid €208,000. That is a total of €615,000 in consultancy fees in two years, which is not an inconsiderable sum. We are now thrown into total confusion. This relates to the Minister's leadership of his Department. A...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Projects (7 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: 233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of reinstating the Phoenix Park after the Papal visit; when this will be complete; the fees that were charged to the event organisers; the contractors employed; the estimated attendance at the event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36985/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Television Licence Fee (11 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 459. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline his plans to reduce the licence fee for deaf persons who are working and who have to pay the full television licence fee despite not being able to access full ISL sign language interpreter services and subtitles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31344/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the Gaeltacht in respect of the transfer of the National Symphony Orchestra from RTÉ to the National Concert Hall; if she will intervene to ensure the portion of the existing television licence fees paid by her Department towards the support of the National Symphony Orchestra continues to support the orchestra, in view of the fact that many attendees at the orchestra are retired and...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: ...them? A development bank approach is available all around the world. We have a huge amount of public land in this country. We could either lease the public land on a long lease via the local authority at a very low fee or almost cost-free. That would reduce the price of the house because the cost of the crazy speculation going on with land, particularly in the greater Dublin region,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to revise or reverse mandatory Gaeltacht fees for student teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29185/18]

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: The rainy day money has to go somewhere. Such a fund would be of no benefit to the real economy if it ends up invested abroad, with fees being paid to some big consultancy firm in FinTech to manage it for us at some low level of interest rate, as we have just discussed in regard to interest rates.

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: ...who went to work as maids and servants in doctors' practices and middle-class homes all over Ireland. It should be borne in mind as well that when families gave children up for adoption, the minimum fee for St. Patrick's Guild, from all the records I have seen and the personal stories I know, was £100 at the time of the Act for a baby plus £5 for clothes. With that, people who...