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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...move by the two parties in Stormont perhaps to begin serious conversations when the British general election is over. It is 20 years since the first meeting of the council. Does the Taoiseach feel it is now appropriate to review the role? If the British-Irish Council is to have a serious future, does the Taoiseach have any confidence that the next Prime Minister of the UK after the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: How do the witnesses think Ireland is positioned regarding foreign direct investment? What are their feelings on the likely level of contributions we will have to make to the EU budget in the coming years and the way it may be adjusted? I also want to ask about the comparative spending changes between social protection, health and education. This brings me back to the first point. Are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...approach when these are serious issues for the staff, the patients who will use the hospital, the babies who will be born there and the master in terms of safety? The poor master has talked about feeling that there is a level of unsafety for babies. That is a massive thing for the master of any hospital to actually say. It is also really worrying for women and their families who are...

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

Joan Burton: ...one might call formal and therapeutic medicines administered by the medical system, including chemists, and the taking of food supplements, which are sold to supplement something that the person feels he or she needs. Many elderly people use supplements. Many parents give them to their children whose recovery they are seeking to promote after a bout of illness. The purpose of these...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: However, we see no sign of a move towards equalisation or equality. That is why people feel so undervalued. A teacher gets nothing like these breaks.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ...that so many women are leaving politics in the UK because of the abuse they are receiving. This includes online abuse and being shouted at and roared at in various venues to the point where many feel unsafe. This follows on from the murder of one of their colleagues by somebody from the far right just a couple of years ago. Northern Ireland's politics are fairly tough. Does the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ...losses are sitting there and they mean the banks will not make any financial contribution for a very long period. This stance by the Government has led to the banks becoming more and more arrogant. Bankers now feel they are seriously underpaid, under-rewarded and under-remunerated - whatever term one wants to use - and want to see executive salaries in the banks rise rapidly. They have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...arrangements settled by Bank of Ireland and 200 were left out in the cold. The latter have not received any kind of adequate response from the Central Bank. I do not know whether the delegates feel they are walking on eggshells because of Bank of Ireland and that it is not within the Central Bank's capacity to act, offering clarity and an explanation as to why the 200 have been left...

Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...For various reasons that I will not recite, they fell away until we were left with just one. We then heard about wining and dining, dinners and contacts, a series of events that led many people to feel that the relationship between the bidder and the contractor - the Government - was too intimate and deeply inappropriate, so much so that one Minister resigned as a consequence. We accept...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...we get our acts together. Had he an opportunity to examine initiatives relating to the reduction in air quality, which affects cities and towns right around the world? Does he or the Government feel inclined to take action to reduce air pollution, which is a major cause of asthma for children and older-aged people, in Dublin? As we know from all the different scientific reports, it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...by the children who attend the school next door to the community centre. The staff in the centre, led by the manager, go out of their way to make everyone in this vibrant and integrated community feel welcome in the centre. The manager of the crèche goes out of her way to help to look after the young babies and children of the area. We are talking about a vital community resource...

Report on Relationships and Sexuality Education: Motion (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Burton: ...down to by the top table in the classroom by the teacher, they would really like to see a workshop-based approach which would involve students and permit them to have some discussion around their feelings. I know particularly in secondary schools that we are broadly talking about 50-minute periods. It requires a lot of thought. As we all know, people can be quite tense when this subject...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Pyrite Issues (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Burton: ...to anybody who reads the report that this school is in a dreadful state. It is as bad as anything in St. Luke's and Tyrrelstown without, perhaps, the same level of danger. How would the Minister feel if his children were in this school? His reply stated that:The Department of Education and Science as owners of the site and building at St. Patrick's national school, Diswellstown Road,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Burton: ...of language and these placements of portfolios are extremely strange. It unfortunately harks back to the language used in the 1930s, and we all know how that ended. As a member of the EPP, does the Taoiseach feel that the language used to describe the portfolios and the appointment of the Hungarian vice-president who has a history of attacking the judiciary are appropriate? Was there an...

Offshore Islands: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2019)

Joan Burton: ...resource for the islanders themselves, but also for the rest of Ireland and the world. What this Government often lacks is the imagination to see potential and, as time passes, potential changes. I get the feeling from the Government that, in many ways, it sees the islands as a charge and a drag rather than as a positive opportunity. In terms of biodiversity, the islands are a unique...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Reviews (17 Sep 2019)

Joan Burton: ...the personal services card provides total privacy for people getting on and off buses, trains and other forms of transport on which the card can be used. People should not scare older people into feeling they may lose that because it is a valuable improvement to public services. I am getting tired and weary of the constant advertisements from Government stating that a particular thing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (9 Jul 2019)

Joan Burton: ...contrary to develop among the public, especially among potential whistleblowers. That is because they and their families risk much personally, as we have heard repeatedly. Were those people to feel their claims will not be properly acted upon, it would discourage everyone, except the very brave, from making such disclosures. It is very worrying that the watchdog has repeatedly raised...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Capitation Grants (25 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: ...to restore capitation grants to the pre-2011 level of €200 per pupil in view of the fact that per-pupil spending at primary level is substantially below OECD and EU averages and many schools are feeling the pinch with regard to capitation, particularly in areas where parents have lower incomes.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: ...gardaí for a population that is bigger than the population of Limerick or Waterford. It is simply impossible for the Garda to meet the demographic demands of the area and local people do not feel safe. People should be able to feel safe in their community.

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2019)

Joan Burton: ...transgender people could not have a birth certificate showing their acquired or preferred gender. The Minister, when she was a Senator, was a great advocate on that subject. Can she recover that feeling and sense of advocacy for those who want to sort this out? The commission is doing great work. It is discovering a lot of things. For example, there have been requests for inquests. I...