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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Preparations (27 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of trained dogs engaged in customs and excise activities; the number of dogs under training; and if the Revenue Commissioners plan to increase the number of such animals. [14508/19]

Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Joan Burton: Dog walkers.

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Those dogs are still running.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: There is no clarity. Two lawyers, in the persons of the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance, drafted this, but they have made a dog's dinner of it.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 May 2011)

Joan Burton: ...remains as advised in question number 146 which was answered for the Deputy on 1 December 2010. There are no payments made by the Department of Social Protection towards the cost of caring for a dog.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Joan Burton: -----whether when she made a reference to dogs she was actually including in that our Garda Síochána.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The regulations on dogs are long overdue.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: If the Deputy is objecting to dealing with regulations on dogs, she is wrong.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...for both sides of the Border. There is a real issue for all the Border communities as to how legitimate traders will be protected. Let us be honest, 210 compliance staff and 20 trained detector dog teams are just not going to do it for us. We understand that the Taoiseach must play his cards close to his chest, but Chancellor Merkel will ask him this question tomorrow because it is the...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: While there was much empathy, it was a bit like Mother Machree's dog. It was going a bit of the road with everybody. When our Bill was brought before the Dáil, before the summer, it was parked in cold storage, if I recall correctly, with the support of Fianna Fáil, for 12 months to ensure no decision would be made or that this Bill would pre-empt it. Only the Minister and the...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Joan Burton: ...the Minister to show us that this inspectorate will genuinely replicate somebody like Nuala O'Loan in the North of Ireland, rather than a little whimpering organisation that will be the HSE's lap-dog.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: From the Seanad (12 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: ...? These are substantive amendments and are extraordinarily confusing. They will be a minefield and great for the lawyers, who will dine out on what is put before us. It is little more than a dog's breakfast of a set of amendments.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

Joan Burton: ...prevention missions around the world at the request of the United Nations, subject to the triple lock. To a degree, some of the language used by Deputy Mick Wallace is what would be called "dog whistle politics" in Australia. In other words, he is basically implying that there are utterly illegal actions by authorities in Ireland. He is suggesting that Shannon is a military airport,...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Joan Burton: ...their lives or suffered serious injury in defending this State, it would be wise for Deputy Coppinger to remove and resile from the figure of speech that she acknowledges she used of "calling off the dogs". Our gardaí are not to be referred to in those terms. As regards what happened at Fingal County Council, where Deputy Coppinger and I had the privilege to serve as councillors,...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2007)

Joan Burton: ...for services provided, but in none of their cases has the Competition Authority sent them so much as a Christmas card. Instead, organisations such as the IPU, as well as the breeders of pedigree dogs, are raided by the Competition Authority. I am glad the Minister will review this outfit.

Order of Business (30 Apr 2009)

Joan Burton: On No. 12a, we are not prepared to accept any arrangements for the Order of Business today unless the Minister for Finance makes an arrangement to come into the House and clarify the absolute dog's breakfast that has been made of the withdrawal of mortgage interest relief from about 60,000 home owners. People are facing a weekend where they are not sure what their net mortgage payments are...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: There is a little of what Australians would term the "dog whistle politics" about this. In other words, Deputies are trying to raise a fear in the minds of the postmasters and particularly elderly customers who rely on An Post for the services with which we are all familiar. I have voiced the concern before that Deputies are frightening people a little too much. An Post has the contract...

Drug Seizures. (18 Oct 2006)

Joan Burton: ..., apparently as a result of overdoses. At Dublin Airport, even if one goes through the ministerial gateway, it can take three hours to go through the customs checks where there are even sniffer dogs looking for drugs. However, in the private aerodromes there is nothing bar an e-mail to say the customs may come. Is the Minister satisfied that this kind of supervision is adequate? It...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2007)

Joan Burton: ...its nose unsuccessfully into a large number of areas. However, none of the initiatives it has taken, ranging from stopping the Irish Kennel Club taking certain actions with regard to pedigree dogs to the Irish League of Credit Unions, where it sought more competition among credit unions, has led to lower prices and better services and value for consumers.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2007)

Joan Burton: The Minister probably does not remember the actions taken against the Irish Kennel Club and breeders of dogs. On both sides of the House, both in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, there is a group of new neocon Deputies who are very influenced by the Republican Party right wing in the United States. We heard some on this side of the House speak last night, while some of the Minister's colleagues...