Results 27,701-27,720 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The key point is that if they are a jobseeker on a transitional basis, they will be encouraged to take up all the activation opportunities we have created. From my own enormous experience in this area, I know that the road back to successful employment is through education, training and work experience. I know so many people who have done that successfully.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should ask his former leader and the former Taoiseach and he will tell him.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: It is a transitional period until the child is 14 years of age.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: It means the person will be encouraged to take part in activation, particularly in respect of education because many of the educational opportunities, as Deputy Conaghan knows, are based on school times and are particularly suitable to people who may be parenting alone. They have an enhanced range of opportunities. The number of the organisations that work with people parenting on their...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Broadly, it is on a one-to-one case management basis. If a person has not been working in paid employment for a period of time, the journey back to a job generally involves working on a one-to-one basis with the individual. We begin by bringing people into a group engagement and this is followed by one-to-one meetings with staff in the Department of Social Protection and the individual...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: From budget 2009 to budget 2011, inclusive, the full year value of the welfare expenditure reductions introduced by the previous Government was over €2.4 billion. To recall for the benefit of Deputy Willie O'Dea, it included the abolition of the Christmas bonus in 2009, weekly reductions in all working age welfare payments in 2010 and 2011 and weekly reductions in jobseeker's...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: May I correct one of the Deputy's figures? He mentioned a reduction in social welfare of over €3 billion.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Did I mishear him?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The Government of which he was a member reduced it by €2.4 billion.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: There was a subsequent reduction-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy's party broke the economy.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: It ended up with 250,000 people losing their jobs but I am happy that today's figures demonstrate that we have again increased the number of people at work. Today, there is an unemployment rate of 10.9%.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: It is very good progress for the country. The Deputy has never apologised for what his Government did and he now has the opportunity to say he regrets-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----taking over €16 per week from people. He should regret that his Government drove all those people into unemployment. Many people never wanted to be on social welfare.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: They were driven to unemployment.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Will the Deputy apologise to all the people whose businesses were smashed and who were driven to unemployment?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I do not have the quote to hand but the FitzGerald report from the ESRI clearly demonstrates that during the course of the budgets from this Government, there has been progressive improvement in people's circumstances.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: This is the work of the ESRI and I would be perfectly happy to have a detailed chat with the Deputy about it.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy can research it. Professor FitzGerald sets out very clearly his conclusions, which are not mine. When we examine the Estimates in the new year, I would be happy to have that debate. I do not have all the material with me now.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Many of those figures have been subject to some revision, so the Deputy might examine Professor FitzGerald's report from the ESRI.