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

Joan Burton: ...housing. It is really shocking to read the figures in relation to the Department of Health where yet again the Government has introduced a Supplementary Estimate plus other funding of almost €500 million. The Minister for Health has failed to fulfil his responsibility. Despite the fact that the total expenditure on health is now around €17 billion, the Government seems to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: Of the €5 million given to the Arts Council, €3.75 million was a reallocation-----

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...living alone allowance, what about pensioner couples? Do they not have an entitlement to some consideration from the Government? According to the ESRI, inflation next year will be approximately 1.5% without Brexit. However, the ESRI has stated that if there is a difficult Brexit, inflation could rise, particularly for the price of cheaper foods. Those Members who do a weekly...

Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ..., around people who become unemployed when young and particularly young men. All the international data show that this impact carries on not just into their 20s and 30s but into their 40s and 50s, and it often triggers other problems. The parallel data on children experiencing homelessness indicates that children worry about themselves and why they do not have a place to do their...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister of State expand on his comment on the €3 million reduction? On profiled capital expenditure, he has a sum of €19.4 million pencilled in in 2019. There is a figure of €3 million for a project in Blackpool; €6 million in Douglas; €5 million in Ennis south; €3 million in Glashaboy; €1.6 million in lower Morell; and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Let me interrupt the Minister of State. He has included a figure of €76 million in the Estimate. I have totted up the figures on page 5 and they roughly come to the €76 million mentioned in the Estimate. The Minister of State correctly states he will not touch the first lot of projects and some of the second lot and that the ones due to start in 2019 could be delayed. There...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: 5 o’clock Deputy Donohoe's reputation is that he is the Minister who dipped down the back of the sofa and found something between €750 million and €1 billion, notwithstanding the information that was given to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. He lashed out the money. Not alone did that happen, but at the Fine Gael Ard-Fheis last week, the Taoiseach was offering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: ...further what the clerks of works are doing? I am sure he knows from his experience in County Donegal the burden placed on those in the schools governance structure in running effectively a €5 million to €12 million project. It is more than lay-people can often take on, but, in fairness to them, they do.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: It says 5% in the budget booklet. That is modest because schools are being put to the pin of their collars to meet their running costs. If it is an older school building such as an old parish school, it is very likely that it is not well insulated against heat loss and consequently, that its heating costs are very expensive. I mention the living wage and in that context I wish to look...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (24 Apr 2018)

Joan Burton: Under the original budgetary estimates, €5 million was allocated for the strategic communications unit and we were informed at the time that the unit would have a staff of five. By the time the Government's programme had reached its zenith, the unit employed 15 staff and we had not been given a figure on its expenditure at that point. However, I understand from the Taoiseach's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: It cost around £5 million to reinstate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: For €5 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (7 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: ...for political purposes. Has an extra allocation of €900,000 been made to the Department of the Taoiseach for additional staff in the context of this communications campaign in addition to the €5 million added in the budget for this year? If one adds in the additional social media spend that the Taoiseach identified in terms of use of social media for messages and so on, it...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: ...as a parent, guardian or teacher. It is brilliantly effectively and I urge the Department of Justice and Equality to become active. The Government has a special communications unit with its €5 million allocation. In many ways, we would be better off if some of that money was put into providing for this legislation and looking at how we can empower children, in particular, to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...of the anomalies, such as the self-employed tax credit, should be of equal status with the tax credit for people on PAYE. Looking at the figures, there would probably be a surge of up to €400 million to €500 million because of the extraordinary growth in self-employment. There is a view of the self-employed as being somehow or other well-off. The trades where people are...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: ...have children facing into the rest of the winter in freezing cold conditions in old buildings, which are no longer fit for purpose, and prefabs. Last year the capital programme for schools was €334 million. This year the Government has only provided €338 million. It is an increase of €4 million or €5 million and perhaps a few million more by the end of the...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: ..., the Minister for Finance has been tempted to travel down the same path. I am amazed that Fianna Fáil seems to have totally forgotten how it blew up the finances of the country. Today the Minister for Finance has raised €400 million from a 4% increase in non-residential stamp duty to pay for tax cuts and spending increases. Have we learned nothing from the past? A budget...

Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: ...is very difficult for traditional parish schools because the budget for new school buildings for large primary schools with 1,000 pupils, or secondary schools with even more pupils, is between €5 million and €10 million. The task of managing the budget falls to a voluntary part-time board and although I find the attitude of many officials positive there is enormous confusion...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: ...have been incredibly unfortunate for the country if there had been a Garda strike, so it is welcome that an agreement was reached. However, in the material I saw about the agreement and how the €50 million is to be funded, I recall that €25 million is to come from within the resources of the Department of Justice and Equality. That struck me as being a fairy tale. I would...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: ...xe1;il are in on this. The Minister for Finance's proposal is to squeeze and squeeze this economy for the next ten years. It sets out, to the mid 2020s and beyond, to bring down the debt-to-GDP ratio to 45% of GDP. The very tough German fiscal rules require Ireland to reach a ratio of 60%. Yet, today the Government, Fianna Fáil and the Independents are proposing that we drive that...