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Wed, 2 Nov 2016
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Recreational Angling Sector
Joan Burton
408. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of derelict fishing rights transferred from the former Land Commission to Inland Fisheries Ireland at a location (details supplied) under the Irish Land Commission (Dissolution) Act; if these fishing rights remain with him for his disposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32575/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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European Council Meetings
Joan Burton
7. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach if he had discussions at the recent European Council meeting with his fellow Heads of Government regarding the implications of Brexit for Ireland, both North and South. [31981/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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European Council Meetings
Joan Burton
8. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach if he had discussions with the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, at the recent European Council meeting regarding Brexit; and his views on whether this would result in a hard Border with Northern Ireland. [31982/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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European Council Meetings
Joan Burton
10. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach if, during the recent European Council meeting, the opportunity arose to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Syria; and if a further opportunity arose to determine if any progress has been made in the resettlement of Syrian refugees in EU member states. [31983/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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Departmental Properties
Joan Burton
12. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach the landlords that his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the amounts paid in each case. [31638/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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Appointments to State Boards
Joan Burton
13. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since, including the date each vacancy arose, for State boards or governing bodies under his control; the names of those appointed since the Government was formed; if each position was advertised and a short-list was provided to him by the Public Appointments Service; if the appointments were approved by the Cabinet; and the positions under his control that are not subject to the Public Appointments Service system. [31639/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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UN Conventions Ratification
Joan Burton
78. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is likely that Dáil Éireann will vote on the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [31621/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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Budget Measures
Joan Burton
182. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to first-time buyers who have saved house deposits in excess of 20% of the total value of the home they wish to purchase and are now unable to avail of the help to buy scheme as announced in Budget 2017; if his Department has investigated first time buyers in this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32001/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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Schools Site Acquisitions
Joan Burton
191. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Education and Skills the names of the geographic areas in Dublin west for the purposes of school planning; and if he will provide a map illustrating the boundaries of the planning areas in Dublin west. [31458/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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School Accommodation
Joan Burton
198. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of the purchase of Roslyn Park rehabilitation centre for a new school (details supplied); the likely date the school will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31522/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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School Accommodation
Joan Burton
199. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the newly purchased site for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 4 is of sufficient size for the co-location of a future second level school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31523/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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Education and Training Boards Data
Joan Burton
212. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have been recruited in the Tipperary Education and Training Board since its establishment; the number assigned to the ETB head office in Nenagh; the number allocated to other locations in the county and their locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31774/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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Local Government Reform
Joan Burton
254. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for the introduction of a directly elected mayor for the city and county of Dublin; and the work his Department has undertaken on this matter since the consultation with the four Dublin local authorities in 2013. [31729/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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Local Government Reform
Joan Burton
255. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has received representations from members of Fingal County Council seeking to partition the local authority along the N2 to create a new local authority in the north County Dublin area outside the remit of the proposed directly elected mayor for Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31730/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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Local Government Reform
Joan Burton
256. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has examined the redrawing of the boundary between Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council in the vicinity of the M50; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31731/16]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
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Local Government Reform
Joan Burton
257. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department will be establishing a local government boundary committee to review local electoral areas in view of the population increases in the Fingal county area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31732/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Departmental Budgets
Joan Burton
30. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will explain the 9% reduction of funding in the 2017 Estimates for the Irish language, Gaeltacht and the islands programme from €51,206,000 to €46,736,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31014/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts in Education Charter
Joan Burton
107. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure the better integration of the arts into education and a broadening of the focus on science, technology, engineering and maths, STEM, into science, technology, engineering, arts and maths, STEAM; if he will expand the ambition and resourcing of the arts and education charter; and if he will continue to work to further enhance the position of arts subjects within the curriculum at primary and secondary level. [31305/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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School Patronage
Joan Burton
108. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the new schools establishment group has made a decision in respect of the new Carpenterstown and Castleknock second level school in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31189/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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School Patronage
Joan Burton
109. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the final assessment reports of the new schools establishment group in respect of the patronage of nine new schools to be established have been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31190/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
170. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she has agreed to carry over funding for the 1916 commemoration to the general arts, culture and film programme for 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31285/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
171. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the Government will commit to the long-term goal of increasing arts funding to the European average of 0.6% of GDP. [31286/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
172. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to increase funding for the arts over the lifetime of the Government; and her views on whether funding for the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board should be doubled. [31287/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
173. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will create an arts capital fund, modelled after the sports capital fund, to ensure better long-term funding for the Irish arts. [31288/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Artists' Remuneration
Joan Burton
174. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will liaise with the Minister for Social Protection to examine the supports for working artists under the social protection system; and if the Government will relax activation rules for working artists to allow them to support themselves as they produce art and cultural pieces (details supplied). [31289/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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World Heritage Sites
Joan Burton
175. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will outline the Government's plan to pursue more applications for UNESCO world heritage status for Ireland's national landmarks (details supplied). [31290/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Irish Language
Joan Burton
176. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way she will work with her colleague, the Minister for Education and Skills, to ensure parents can access second level education through Irish, especially in areas with proven demand for Gaelscoileanna. [31291/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Gaeltacht Policy
Joan Burton
177. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the Government will provide extra funding to Irish-speaking Gaeltacht areas to encourage greater use of the language and better economic prospects for those living there. [31292/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Promotion
Joan Burton
178. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way the Government proposes to ensure arts funding is used to allow minority and new Irish voices to be heard as part of our cultural output. [31293/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Cultural Policy
Joan Burton
179. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to support the development of the creative industries sector; if she has reviewed the report from the previous Oireachtas committee on jobs, enterprise and innovation on the hearings which examined the potential for job creation, innovation and balanced economic development in the creative economy; and if she will implement the recommendations of the report in tandem with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. [31294/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Irish Music Industry Promotion
Joan Burton
180. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she has had any engagement with stakeholders in the music industry in terms of the establishment of a music industry task force with wide representation which would examine a range of issues, including the impact of intellectual property and copyright legislation and enforcement in both the music and technology industries, supports for the business of music education and a dedicated office similar to the Irish Film Board for the music sector. [31295/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts in Education Charter
Joan Burton
181. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she has liaised with the Minister for Education and Skills on the development of contemporary art education at primary and secondary level in schools. [31297/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Cultural Policy
Joan Burton
182. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to develop a national cultural strategy up to 2025. [31298/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts in Education Charter
Joan Burton
183. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to develop musical education and make instruments available to young persons and the general population through facilitating schools, youth groups and libraries in enhancing their music resources and the provision of access to musical training and instruments for the benefit of local communities. [31299/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Centres
Joan Burton
184. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she has examined any proposals to facilitate on a national basis the use of vacant retail premises by exhibiting artists, based on successful schemes such as Space Invaders in Galway which uses empty retail units to support local artists. [31300/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Planning Issues
Joan Burton
185. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if her Department will examine a nationwide plan for the development of village design statements that would ensure all future planning and development takes full cognisance of historic character and protects the character and heritage of our villages. [31301/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Heritage Schemes
Joan Burton
186. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the supports in place for development and protection of county archive services to preserve local cultural patrimony. [31302/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Promotion
Joan Burton
187. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will liaise with the Minister for Health to develop and roll out an arts and health strategy across acute and children's hospitals and across the community health sector; and the other innovative approaches that are being considered to use the arts as a means to promote well-being across society. [31303/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Promotion
Joan Burton
188. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action she is taking with her Government colleagues to systematically address social, geographic and economic barriers to full participation in the artistic and cultural life of the country, particularly for children and young persons. [31304/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Promotion
Joan Burton
189. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will begin preparation of a global arts forum for Ireland, similar to the structure of the Global Irish Economic Forum, which would highlight our indigenous talent and map a strong and healthy future for arts and culture at home and abroad. [31306/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
212. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her views on the 16% reduction in the 2017 Estimates for the arts, education and film programme compared with the 2016 Estimates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31452/16]
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
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Legislative Reviews
Joan Burton
294. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will undertake a full review of the rights of artists here including a thorough examination of existing copyright laws and the current Competition Act. [31296/16]
Wed, 19 Oct 2016
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Departmental Bodies
Joan Burton
1. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach to provide an update on the formation of the Dublin north inner city task force, its terms of reference, chair and timescale. [30289/16]
Wed, 19 Oct 2016
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Citizens Assembly
Joan Burton
2. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the convening of the Citizens' Assembly. [30290/16]
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
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Brexit Issues
Joan Burton
6. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach if he has spoken to or conversed with the British Prime Minister or other members of the United Kingdom Government since the announcement by the British Prime Minister of the timescale for Brexit and the commitment by the UK Government to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to withdraw from the European Union by the end of March 2017. [29299/16]
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
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Brexit Issues
Joan Burton
7. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach if he has had discussions with the Northern Ireland First Minister and deputy First Minister, the Scottish First Minister and Welsh First Minister concerning the announcement by the UK Prime Minister Teresa May of a timetable for Brexit and the commitment by the UK Government to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to withdraw from the European Union by the end of March 2017. [29300/16]
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
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Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Joan Burton
261. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way he will address the pupil-teacher ratio in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30708/16]
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
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Schools Building Projects Status
Joan Burton
270. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the rebuild of a school (details supplied) is to be released to tender; when works on the rebuild of the school will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30874/16]
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
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Child and Family Agency
Joan Burton
660. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which Tusla membership was encouraged by her Department and promoted prior to the announcements made in the budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30706/16]
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
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Child and Family Agency Services
Joan Burton
661. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which families not registered with Tusla will receive benefits under its auspices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30707/16]