Results 27,041-27,060 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: I would expect Fianna Fáil to actually welcome €1.7 billion in investment in clean, safe water.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: As a former Minister for Health, Deputy Martin is one of the few people who would have a detailed appreciation of the dangers to children and to older people of unhealthy water transmitted through lead pipes.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: We have had the debate about Roscommon, and we know that, but we have to look at what the local authorities have revealed about Irish water since we replaced 34 separate systems with one national system.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: That system will take time to bed down, and I acknowledge that. I acknowledge that there are communications issues and establishment problems, but it is a very big national enterprise.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: The question the Deputy is raising concerns whether it is worthwhile investing in and developing a clean, reliable water supply for the people of Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: I am answering the Deputy's question. There were 34 local authorities doing this during the Celtic tiger era when the Deputy was in office as Minister for Health when he often spoke extremely convincingly about public health issues, for which I recognised him, and defended the adequacy of public health services. The stuff that went on in local authorities, even during the richest period in...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: My understanding is that councillors representing the Deputy's party, Independents and Fianna Fáil control Wicklow County Council. I, therefore, suggest to her that when she gets time in her busy schedule, she pick up the telephone and make a call to her own public representatives who serve on that county council and suggest to them that they might have a conversation with management of...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: What are they doing?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: They are paid a part-time stipend. What are they doing if they are not speaking to their manager about this?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: In regard to my concerns about families who are on low incomes or are unemployed, the budget contains €200 million of spending. I am happy to say this includes the restoration of the Christmas bonus on a partial basis and the payment to the kinds of family to which Deputy McDonald referred, and all the other families in Ireland, of a small but significant sum of €5 per month in...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: For families in this category, this is about my concern to see those families and their children prosper and thrive. A back to work family dividend of €30 per week will be paid where somebody in the household takes up employment. I am not sure that Deputy McDonald has much personal experience of what it is like not to be well off or to be unemployed.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: In choosing to lecture me about issues like that-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: -----or other Deputies-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: I will answer it now.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: My understanding - perhaps Deputy Pearse Doherty will be able to clarify the matter - is that the chairperson of the housing special policy committee, SPC, in Wicklow is a representative of Sinn Féin.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: My understanding-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: In fairness to Sinn Féin, it has taken on responsibilities in the North. It has included-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: There are a lot of angry men in Sinn Féin. Try to control it.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: It is being turned on and off like the water tap. Try to put a stop to it.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: Deputy Ellis has long experience and a good record of working on Dublin City Council. He knows as well as I do what an SPC does.