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Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Deputy is asking for the answer to a test that will not be done by EUROSTAT until it decides to do it. We anticipate that it will carry out that test or examination sometime next April or around the end of the first quarter. We are confident because we have the figures here.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: To help Members of the House, the test is whether or not there is a stream of income in excess of 50% of the total funding that is other than Government funding. The Government subvention of Ervia or Irish Water is 44% and, therefore, we should more than comfortably pass the test. I am satisfied that we will actually pass the test.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: I thank Deputy McDonald for her comments and I hope people like her, in positions of leadership particularly, will remove this slur cast on the people of Jobstown and Tallaght by the way the leaders of the demonstration conducted themselves.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The people of Tallaght and Jobstown are owed an apology and I thank Deputy McDonald for disassociating herself from the extremely damaging behaviour. The people in Jobstown and Tallaght work hard, earn their money and pay their taxes. They do not deserve to be traduced in the way that was done by the organisers of the protest.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Their children have ambitions to work and to go to college and not to have the name of Tallaght, or the name of any working class unit in Dublin, traduced.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Deputy Paul Murphy seemed pretty happy to have the Garda Síochána bring him out of the demonstration and taken away safely when it got rougher.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: I presume at that point Deputy Paul Murphy put the megaphone back in the boot of his car.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: I know this is taking extra time but I want to thank Deputy McDonald for disassociating herself and her party from what happened in Tallaght on Saturday. It is not good for anyone in Ireland and not good for the community. It is not about me, it is about the community in Tallaght and Jobstown. With regard to her question, under the revised package of a fresh start for Irish Water, people...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: This is the alliance of the Tea Party and Trotskyist. This is a new political party in Ireland. The Tea Party Trotskyists, a homegrown Irish version.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Deputy Stephen Donnelly knows-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: -----there has been an intense amount of investment, particularly under the previous Government. Fianna Fáil made a lot of investment, as did the local authorities throughout the country through development levies, in water delivery and sewerage systems. Having boundaries for pipes that stop at the county boundary makes no sense.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: There was no great achievement with regard to the road programme because, similarly, it made no sense.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: With regard to Fianna Fáil, I acknowledge that when the National Roads Authority brought together previously disassociated county roads investment plans, we got one of the better legacies of the prosperous years, a motorway system that vastly improved the service and usability of our road system. Anyone who turned left at Paulstown to go to Waterford, as I did over a long period and I...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: -----the road returned to being the roads of previous days because Kilkenny County Council did not care about how people got to or from Waterford. In fairness, when Fianna Fáil and the previous Government invested in the National Roads Authority, we got a motorway that the people of Waterford deserve.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: My reply may take slightly longer than usual.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Deputy McDonald made some important comments about An Garda Síochána and I will address them briefly. At these protests there was a small minority of people, and those opposite may know some of them, as they are from a variety of groups. There was virulence in the language directed towards the gardaí and the people against whom people were protesting. This has happened not...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The previous Government established the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: If the Deputy or people she knows have a complaint, that is the place to go.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: There were attempts to damage property and gardaí. For the Deputies' information, the second car I occupied had its windscreen broken.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: I am happy to answer the points in the second part of the question.