Results 23,141-23,160 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: An adopting parent for adoptive benefit includes - this would be in the definition sections and in the arrangements in respect of the Act - a man in whose care a child is placed for adoption, including a foreign adoption, where the woman in whose care the child has been, or is to be placed, has died, or a man in whose sole care a child has been placed for adoption. That is the single male to...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: That was an earlier discussion.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: As Senators have said, we had quite a detailed discussion on this yesterday but we did not hear the reason the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart. I did not realise it possibly had to do with coffins but Senator Norris has enlightened us. Many Senators, and in particular Senator Mooney, raised the question yesterday of the extraordinary cost of some funerals in the Dublin region. Senator...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: We are talking about difficult choices. As I said yesterday, this measure will result in departmental savings in expenditure of approximately €22 million but there will also be further savings because there was an additional scheme, a small scheme, which required a certain amount of administration. Therefore, there will be administrative savings and staff savings, which we are...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: From the opening contribution by Senator Cullinane on behalf of Sinn Féin, it seems to me that Sinn Féin has no faith or belief in and no hope for our young people. That is deeply regrettable in the context of attempting to pretend to speak on their behalf. What young person and what parent, aunt, uncle, brother or sister of a young person wants to see an 18 year old heading down...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: Since the scheme started, 22,000 people, which is made up mostly of young people-----

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: The scheme is only fully operational for about two years.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: The Senator did mention it.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: As many as 22,000 young people have got an opportunity. Would I have liked those young people to get a full-time job straight away and at their first interview? Of course I would. I have been involved in the education of Irish students for more than 20 years and as such I have more ambition for them than the Senator or his party seems to have. He spoke very movingly about the unemployment...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: The change is also difficult for some people in Fianna Fáil. In the long run when we look back, I will be happy. In the beginning when JobBridge was discussed people felt that few people would avail of the scheme. The reality is 22,000 people, most of whom are young people, have availed of the opportunity but the scheme is not confined to young people. The statistics show that about...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: -----but over the years the officials in the Department have been very understanding towards people in the acting profession who were unable to find work. As I said previously, where the period of unemployment becomes very extensive and their specific acting talents may not be in demand, it might be appropriate that they would consider either other fields or adjacent fields. I know some...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: The Senator did. He might not have noticed himself doing it, but he did.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: I heard the Senator say it.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: Perhaps the Senator misspoke.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: That is a concession.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: There is not much more to say. I have given an outline of where the places are to be. I think there might be a "go to" position to disbelieve that anything in Ireland ever gets better. That is selling ourselves and the country short. It is important that we send out a very positive message, particularly where young people are involved. I have a very strong commitment to young people. I...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: As the Chair has said, we had a detailed discussion on many of these points earlier. I do not want to repeat what was put on the record of the House at that time. To be helpful to Senator Healy Eames, in particular, I told Senators earlier that I travelled to Germany with the Taoiseach at the beginning of the summer to go through the details of what a youth guarantee would entail at a...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: I said that I have been invited by a number of the Senator's colleagues and presumably now by the Senator to come back and discuss the matter with the House in some detail in the future when the details have been finalised and agreement has been reached at European level because it is also a European programme. I have undertaken to come back at that stage and will be more than happy to do...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: No, it is in the Department of Social Protection. The amounts involve other Departments which is the way it then climbs up, as it were. The Senator will know from her experience in training that the major significant spender on education and training is the Department of Education and Skills, and the old FÁS training side which is now in the Department of Education and Skills. The new...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: No.