Results 26,741-26,760 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is not addressing the Ard Comhairle of Sinn Féin now-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----where she may choose to tell people how to vote, or else. She is speaking in the Dáil. She has no right to direct people of any party or none as to how they are to cast their secret ballot. It is quite impertinent of her to suggest how Members of the Dáil or the Seanad should vote. It is fine if she does that to her own members, via her own processes. They are voluntary...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: She can offer them her guidance and direction if that is the way her party works. This is a secret ballot. The nomination falls to the party which has the vacancy. That is the practice within government. I accept that practice because that is how it is and has been done.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy also raised questions about the appointment to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: Deputy McDonald------
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I am listening to the Ceann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: That is fine. Thank you.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: We are all aware that the Y case is a very sad one of a young woman who arrived in Ireland as an asylum seeker. Subsequently her baby was delivered. My concern in discussing this is that her confidentiality and vulnerability should be respected, as should those of the baby. This involves a young mother and a baby. We want to see the best outcomes for both. She has since been granted...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: There was no draft. Sorry, it was not published.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: If I may say so, I think the Deputy is rushing to judgment.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I can understand why she is doing so, given her own stance. She has always been upfront about these issues. I respect that. I think she is rushing to judgment, however. I want to draw a distinction in this regard. We have to find the actual facts of the case. It says on each page of the document that was published earlier that it "is a draft document and can only be considered as such"....
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----to make it clear that-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----it is not a position-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----I agree with.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I want to make it clear that-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----it is not a position I support.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: What we do not know, and what we need to wait for the report to get the best possible information on, is what actually happened to the young woman in the period between the identification of the pregnancy and her appearance before the panel in the context of the operation of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. We do not yet know the answers in this regard.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: That is why I think Deputy Murphy is jumping to conclusions before we get the facts.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 15c, motion re revision of ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 5, Sport Ireland Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 15cshall be decided without debate.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The legislation on the A list relates to the availability of medical cards to people over the age of 70. I understand the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, has indicated he will meet GPs and their representatives. That process is probably already under way in the Department of Health and in the context of the HSE.