Results 28,481-28,500 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: -----to assist them with regard to going back to work. I know the Deputy has a difficulty with people going back to work, education and training.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: His party seems to want welfare rather than work. The evidence around the world is that if people go to work-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has not taken into account the back to work family dividend-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: -----which for a lone parent with two children is worth €60 a week.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: For a lone parent with three children who could be going into employment or self-employment-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: -----that is €90 a week. The Deputy's figures do not take that into account-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: -----because that scheme is coming in-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: -----in advance of the changes the Deputy is talking about.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: I reiterate that what almost all lone parents want to do is get involved in education and training as soon as their family and household circumstances permit them to do that. For people who are full-time lone parents not involved in work or study outside of the home, there is no change to their payments, and that is the vast majority of people. The Deputy is very well aware of that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: Child benefit is a universal payment made to families with children. It assists those families with the cost associated with raising children. It is paid to almost 1.2 million children in over 600,000 families. The estimated expenditure in 2014 was €1.9 billion. In budget 2015, the Government committed a further €96 million for children, including an increase of €5...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The United Nations Human Development Index Report 2014, which measures people's well-being, including that of children, places Ireland No. 11 just after the Scandinavian countries. We are among the highest performers in the world in regard to the human development index because of our strong social transfer system. The Deputy refers to Poland and Chile. Poland is No. 35 on the index and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: I am responding to what the Deputy asked in his question, in which he said Poland and Chile had done a more effective job in protecting children. If his idea of effectiveness, in economic terms, is that US$13 a month for a family for a three year period is better and more effective-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: Whoever researched the question for the Deputy included this in the question. If the Deputy thinks the payment in Poland of €18 to €28 per month is better than €135, I am not sure how he can make the economics better. He should acknowledge that in the human development index, HDI, Ireland is eleventh in the world after the Scandinavian countries and Switzerland,...
- Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection will administer, on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, a €100 water conservation grant for households that complete a valid response to Irish Water's customer registration process. The grant will be paid to registered householders annually in respect of their primary dwellings. The first payment is to be...
- Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The Department has put a project team in place to engage in a scoping exercise in respect of the business development structures and so on that will be required to put in place the process that will ensure the efficient delivery of an application and payment system for the grant, including associated consumer communications and support services. That work is ongoing. Assessing the resource...
- Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: When the Deputy referred to the fuel allowance and the ESB-----
- Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: -----in a certain sense she answered her own question. The ESB is an independent company-----
- Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: -----that borrows significantly on national and international markets to finance considerable capital projects around the country. The Department of Social Protection pays a fuel allowance to a large number of people on long-term social welfare incomes, but this is not factored into the ESB's accounts.
- Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: In the first part of her question the Deputy asked about the purpose of the conservation grant. Her comparison with the fuel allowance was good. It is exactly like the fuel allowance and will not be-----
- Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The fuel allowance provides good assistance for persons on long-term social welfare incomes.