Results 22,681-22,700 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----and the anniversary of 1913, if Larkin were alive today he would want - and this is what the strike in 1913 was about - people to get work where work was closed off to them on the docks and in other employment. The Deputy has a nerve-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----to come in here and disparage our young people-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----and to say-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----our young people are only capable of being on social welfare.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Deputy Higgins's only vision for our young people-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----is life on social welfare rather than getting a job.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Deputy Higgins is seriously lacking in understanding of the importance of work in the lives of people who must earn their living-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----in order to be financially independent.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Twenty-one thousand young people have undertaken internships-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----and 60% of them have found employment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Deputy Higgins seems to regret young people getting work. He is seriously misled.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Seriously misled.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: It would be very difficult to make Deputy Higgins happy, from my acquaintance with him over the decades. I am sorry I have not succeeded, but perhaps when he reads up further he will come to have a change of heart.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I am happy to give him more information on internships and perhaps-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Perhaps he will be converted to the cause of getting young people work.
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Appeals (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: This question relates to a child who was born in 1997. While payment of child benefit has moved between the parents over the intervening years, payment has been made continually in respect of the child since the month following his birth. I understand the principal residence of the child and the matter of who should receive the child benefit is under dispute between the parents in this...
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Appeals (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Under social welfare law, deciding officers make independent judgments on the application of that law. Individual deciding officers are not subject to direction when making decisions. In other words, they cannot be directed as to what they should decide. A deciding officer can, of course, seek advice and consult others in order to ensure he or she provides a correct and fair decision....
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Appeals (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Where there is a dispute, the deciding officer is obliged to make an extremely difficult decision. In this instance, each parent brought forward separate evidence indicating that the child was with them more than 50% of the time. Where a child spends more than 50% of his or her time with the mother, the practice has been to make the payment to her.
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Appeals (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: In the aftermath of the Deputy's representations, a senior official undertook a full review of the papers relating to the case. The review concluded - as the Deputy has acknowledged - that the social worker's letter should be excluded from the evidence. On that basis, the deciding officer again reviewed all of the other evidence-----
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Appeals (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Therefore, the Deputy is suggesting the case should not be referred back to the deciding officer who was involved in making the original decision. It is very difficult to make a decision in a case such as this, particularly as both parents produced evidence to support their claims. As the Deputy will appreciate, it is extremely difficult to achieve an outcome which is favourable to both...