Results 21,641-21,660 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: I prefer "happy".
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: Two years.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: Deputy Ó Snodaigh asked about children and after-school services. We are rolling out the 6,000 after-school places. Some were rolled out on a pilot basis towards the end of April. We hope to have all of them rolled out by the start of the new school year in September. We will be concentrating on and emphasising parents' going back to work, be they lone parents or part of a couple....
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joan Burton: The Deputy should provide the details of the specific case. I will undertake to examine the matter. If Deputy Ó Snodaigh has a specific case in mind, particularly in regard to some of the young people, he should give us the details and we will undertake to examine them.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: As we listen to the Anglo Irish Bank tapes, they sound more and more like the vampire tapes. I am not going to go into all of the history of the Deputy's party, but the issue is that those people sucked the lifeblood out of the country, and those in the Deputy's party had a large element of responsibility for that.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: They could come in and tell us exactly what they knew and when they knew it, but let us move on to the code of conduct on mortgage arrears. It is important to remember first the steps the Government has taken since coming to office to address the situation. It started off in a situation in which we had an extended period of forbearance, and that has been extremely important in keeping roofs...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: I am concerned that the Deputy is attempting to unduly distress families who are already worried enough and want a solution to the difficulties which have been ongoing for four years or more in many cases. If he is seeking to help families in distress, he should have the courtesy to speak about facts and what the code of conduct provides for. It provides for a structured system over this...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: When the Deputy's party was in government, its solution was simply to kick the can down the road. Kicking the can is understandable in the early stages of a crisis-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: -----but it is not sustainable if the families are so indebted that they cannot sustain where they are living. The code of conduct, the Insolvency Service of Ireland and the mortgage advice and information telephone line-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: -----provide a series of mechanisms to help people in terrible distress about their debts to find a solution. Deputy Billy Kelleher suggests the Central Bank should not engage in such a process. Fianna Fáil's way with the banks is, basically, any old way.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: This process will help the country by helping distressed borrowers and families to keep a roof over their heads.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: What does that involve?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: For a small number of families, it may involve the resolution offered by the Insolvency Service of Ireland. I suggest to the people who may be alarmed by what Deputy Billy Kelleher has said this morning that they contact the mortgage and arrears advice telephone service run by the Department. We also provide an independent accounting advice service for families who are approaching the stage...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: I find Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's comments interesting. I recall discussing at length with her predecessor as finance spokesperson in this House the reasons the Labour Party was voting against the bank guarantee and advising him to consider doing the same. I do not know why he did not or would not do so. All I can say about the impact of banking issues on the lives of families who are...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: It has resiled from that position ever since. The record of the House shows what happened.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: We have to deal with the catastrophe visited on the country and its people. Those who voted for the bank guarantee, including Sinn Féin, handed us the responsibility, as citizens and as a country, to deal with the awful and irresponsible actions about which we hear on the tapes. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald referred to those involved as the men after the moolah. If there is responsibility...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: The representatives of Sinn Féin are among those who have to take responsibility because they were leading lights in agreeing to the guarantee.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: Can I comment on what we have set out in relation to families?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: We have set up a process. Anyone who has ever been involved in debt resolution - I am speaking as an accountant - will appreciate that it is necessary to get the borrower and the lender to come together to reach an agreement that allows the borrower to recover and get back on his or her feet and also allows the lender to recover proportionate amounts of money that are recoverable. If one...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)
Joan Burton: I thank the Deputy.