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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Property Loans (Project Glas) By Permanent TSB: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the people on the bank's board and so on were. I did not have the benefit of that particular form of education but moral hazard is something that the Jesuits, as an order, have spoken about over a long period. I will set out what I am trying to understand. If this is a moral hazard in Mr. Masding's construct, he has acknowledged there is a social dimension to what we are talking...

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

Joan Burton: ...lives of people. We talk here a lot about taxes. We need to talk just as much about wages. Recently, we thankfully have witnessed many consecutive months of net jobs growth and an exceptionally long streak of reduced unemployment. That, in itself, is undoubtedly good news and is a vindication of the relentless focus on jobs that my party pursued in government. The growth has brought...

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

Joan Burton: ...issue. June 2018 was the driest month in the Phoenix Park for well over 100 years. We have just experienced a remarkable and memorable summer, following an eventful winter of storms and snow. Long established weather records have been broken in a short timeframe and, inevitably, this gives rise to difficult questions about our level of preparedness for the kind of tumultuous climate...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: ..., and the county councils, to which the senior Minister has given a kicking recently, which the Minister of State has said was deserved. Can the Minister of State give us a timeline on how long the average public procurement process will last? Currently, the Minister of State is making people who are walking by all of the derelict sites feel utterly hopeless.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (27 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: Mr. Brendan Kenny, the deputy chief executive of Dublin City Council, is well regarded by everybody who has an interest in housing over a very long period of time. He has suggested - I would seriously listen to him even if the Minister of State wanted to give him a kicking - that the cost for procurement is approximately €300,000 in the way the Minister of State's Department is...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: ...that such an important committee would meet so infrequently. We could also bear in mind that we have had a change of Garda Commissioner, among other changes in the Garda. I ask about the long-standing discussion about how national security be addressed. The report on the future of policing has recommended the immediate creation of a national centre for intelligence collation and...

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: ...there would be over a period of three to five years but the IT has to be developed. Logistics in Ireland are not as developed as they are in many other countries because we are at the end of a long run. If the discussion here is to be of any use, the Minister of State needs to share with us how she and the Government propose to address the issue of the Border. We must bear in mind that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: ...reasonably well informed, that it may be much closer to €1 billion. I do not know if the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has oversight on how the Government is actually governing and managing but for a long time it has now become an absolute part of the budget that health budgets are, at best, guesstimates. This impacts on the shortage of funds and access to funds for housing. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2018)

Joan Burton: ...effectively mimic both the customs union and the Single Market. Obviously that would be on the basis of negotiations with the 27. It is the magical thinking about which there has been talk for a long time. When the Taoiseach has the bilateral meeting with Mrs. May to which he has just referred, does he hope to get clarity on the current status of the Chequers papers and the Chequers...

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

Joan Burton: ...context of a community banking model based on the Sparkasse model. Let us remember that the big difference between many of the German regions, particularly in the old West Germany, is they have a long, intergenerational tradition of SME industries which provide local employment in areas comparable to Sligo, Longford or Wexford but which are not dependent on somebody making every decision...

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

Joan Burton: ...house? How does the Government propose to help 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...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: ...individuals over here are very knowledgeable about it - are turning against consuming meat of any kind because they find the kind of farming that is now practised lacking in humaneness and are no longer convinced of the quality of many agricultural standards, regardless of whether these relate to animals or to what companies such as Monsanto have done in terms of using chemicals and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the post offices are planning to do the same. There is a proposal for community based banking with perhaps a pilot scheme from Sparkasse, the German community bank that has been operating for a long time. It has offered to run a pilot scheme in Ireland to show how a new form of community banking that would include home loans would operate. I am told the Department of Finance - with no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (26 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: ...growth of trees and so on. We are nowhere near ready. We are drinking in the last chance saloon as regards our response. It is extremely disappointing that this Government really seems to have long-fingered it in a way that frankly is depressing. Climate change is leading to the enormous variations in the weather and is leading to the increase in the number of storms. Notwithstanding...

Other Questions: National Museum (21 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: Can the Minister say for how long they have to be advertised and how long it will take the Public Appointments Service, PAS, to examine the applications and make recommendations to the Minister? The Minister will then presumably have to submit these appointments for approval by Government or Cabinet. Can she give an estimate of how long this process is likely to take? She has referred to...

Other Questions: National Museum (21 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: Why is it taking so long? These vacancies came up at the end of last year or early this year. We are now into the middle of the year. The Minister has suggested that they are just about to be posted. Can she give us a timeline for how long it will take to fill these vacancies? The difficulties which have beset the board of the museum have been debated in this House on a number of...

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Management (21 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: .... Has the Minister taken an opportunity, since she became Minister, to visit this important area? Everybody wants to see the maximum positive development of tourism in this area, which has long been an area which has relied on tourism and its natural beauty for promoting the livelihoods of local people. Equally, one has to protect the environment. What are the Minister's plans to do that?

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: I start by referencing the fact that just a couple of hours ago, the courts finally imposed a penalty of six years on David Drumm who was, in many ways, the man who sank Ireland along with the bank that sank Ireland. As we look at the budget figures, we should bear in mind that this man organised a fraud amounting to €7.2 billion. For most people, €7.2 million would sound like...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the HSE? In particular, I would like to know if they have discussed how countries invest for the future. The Taoiseach and his Cabinet have produced a 22 year capital programme which is unusually long. On paper there are a great deal of proposals by the Government but in practice that plan will probably extend over the period of three to five Governments and in the meantime our housing...

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Joan Burton: ..., Magdalen laundries and other institutions, including adoption societies, we know there is a great deal of hidden information concerning adopted people's birth parents and families that rightfully belongs to those adopted people. By the way, I wish to stress to the Minister a point that relates to the scoping exercise and why I think many people have professed some unease about it. As...