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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...specifically for women. Successive Irish Administrations have raised this with the US Administration. Did the Taoiseach do so? Did the Taoiseach raise also the ongoing situation between Israel and Palestine? Did he raise, in particular, the enormous suffering in Palestine and in Palestinian areas of Israel? The Taoiseach's predecessors have acted through the decades as peace...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: ...when he made his statement on America's future approach to the Golan Heights. I assume that when the Taoiseach was in Egypt for the EU-Arab League summit, relationships between the EU and Israel must have been discussed at length, and also the relationship of the EU and the Palestinian people. I would like to know the Taoiseach's reaction, speaking on behalf of the Irish Government, to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: ...and peacemaking. That is a tribute to the peacemaking mandate of the United Nations, with which it is important that we continue. What is the position of the Taoiseach on the conflict between Israel and the people of Palestine? Traditionally, the role of Ireland, as a small country - these are two small countries - has been to act as a peacemaker. That role should continue. A lot of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: .... Why can there not be some reconciliation between the two processes? The witnesses may criticise Ireland. However, the global investment competitors of Ireland and Europe may well be Singapore, Israel and other locations if we look at the very big IT and social media companies. Another element which might be possible is a financial transactions tax or a variation on such a tax....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: ...GUINEA 45 0 GUINEA-BISSAU 2 0 GUYANA 2 0 HONDURAS 2 0 HONG KONG 8 3 HUNGARY 538 393 ICELAND 3 2 INDIA 69 116 INDONESIA 5 7 IRAN 235 9 IRAQ 300 3 IRELAND 247,364 88,797 ISLE OF MAN 1 0 ISRAEL 19 4 ITALY 287 169 IVORY COAST 56 1 JAMAICA 15 2 JAPAN 10 10 JORDAN 14 2 KAZAKHSTAN 46 9 KENYA 49 6 KOSOVO 122 8 KUWAIT 31 0 KYRGYZSTAN 5 0 LATVIA 2,358 1,011 LEBANON 13 4...

Membership of International Organisations (20 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the recent admission of Israel to the OECD; and the position taken by him thereon [20928/10]

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: ...carries out a rigorous procedure regarding the location of future investments on a ten to 15 year cycle. It was a clear and present warning from somebody who is a world expert on Intel locating in Israel versus Ireland versus Costa Rica and all of the different countries which are competing. He said there was a time when, on the 20 or so headings used by Intel, we were competitive on...