Results 27,741-27,760 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: What I am saying is that the data given by people to Irish Water will be deleted. The most recent figures show that 850,000 households have responded to Irish Water. It makes sense to carry it all in the Bill relating to Irish Water which will come before the Oireachtas shortly.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Similarly, I wish to inform the House that I intend to bring forward an amendment on Report Stage to enable the Minister for Finance to draw down moneys from the Central Fund to discharge any State liabilities to scheme members arising in the event of a wind-up of a defined benefit pension scheme in the period from 25 January 2007 and 25 December 2014 where both employer and the pension...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Is the Deputy talking about the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport? He is the Minister who is responsible under the legislation.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: As I understand it, what we are trying to do relates to how the changes may be applied. As the Deputy is well aware, how they are applied is a matter for the trustees of the scheme who are required under trust law to act in the best interests of all of the scheme beneficiaries. I am sure the Deputy is aware that the scheme beneficiaries include approximately 5,000 retired members, 5,000...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I drew attention to a potential amendment on Report Stage.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: No. I want to make it very clear that I do not agree because for both this year and next year the Minister has actually received a very significant increase in resources. The Deputy has made the point that he would like to see it increased further.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I think everyone would like to see resources in almost every area increased further, particularly as the economy recovers. I do not dispute that. The Deputy wants to have an honest discussion. As he knows, the movement for instance to establish local health centres with the provision of services in an outpatient and a more local setting is critical in order to assist the emergency...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: That is the reality.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Through the special delivery unit and through the investment in primary health care-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----there has actually been a significant overall reduction in the number of patients on trolleys, that Fianna Fáil left when it left government. If the Deputy is talking about an honest discussion, he should acknowledge that.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Those are the figures.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: As I am sure the Deputy will agree with me, all sexual abuse, whether of adults or children, is reprehensible. The Deputy might possibly join others in the House in condemning all sexual abuse. We recently had a discussion on that issue regarding the Maíria Cahill case. If I recall, her response regarding that case left much to be desired. On the case the Deputy has referred to, as...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: As the Deputy has raised this without any notification, I have to say to her in regard to this particular case, which has been spoken of over a long number of years, that she and people in Sinn Féin would be very well aware of the fact that Mr. Domhnall Ó Lubhlaí was identified for a long period of time very closely as a very significant and important republican figure....
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----he was associated with Sinn Féin-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Certainly in any reference that I ever heard to Mr. Ó Lubhlaí his connections to the republican movement were always very strongly identified. Deputy McDonald might not like to hear that-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----but that is the reality.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Deputy McDonald knows the history of the republican movement better than anybody else in this House.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Mr. Ó Lubhlaí has been characterised in previous media reports, as Deputy McDonald well knows, as being a paedophile rapist on a very significant scale in relation to children who came under his care and attention. I do not have the results of the Garda investigations to hand but he was a very prominent republican during his life. He died before the investigation was completed-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----and in numerous media comments in relation to the investigation-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: ----- it was always pointed out that his links into the republican movement were of deep significance. We know-----