Results 29,541-29,560 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: Let me explain it to Deputy McDonald. It was done not to have politicians directly running businesses. Deputy McDonald's and Sinn Féin's version is that there should be no relationship framework because presumably Sinn Féin politicians will run the businesses and then we know what would happen.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: I disassociate myself, in the context of Leaders' Questions, from a number of the statements naming individuals. I do not know who they are but there is long-standing rule in the House on this. I know of some of them, but there are other names the Deputy has mentioned. I do not know who those people are.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: I said earlier that I wanted to see an independent inquiry by a competent authority. That implies - I am sure Fianna Fáil will appreciate this-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----that people in this House who are named-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----are entitled to their good name and reputation under the rules of this House for a very good reason. I do not know many of the names that were mentioned by the Deputy. I want to make that clear that those people are entitled to their good names, and anyone who seeks to carry out a competent inquiry in this matter, as the Deputy well knows, must proceed on that basis if the inquiry is...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: I would not give in to the cheap shots that are being made at the moment by the Deputy in a situation in which those people have no opportunity, if they so wish, to make their own case regarding their situation. I repeat, for the Deputy's information, that I want to see an inquiry by a competent authority. Regarding people who have received water bills, as the Deputy is aware, well over...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----on which hundreds of thousands of Irish people - the Deputy's fellow citizens, neighbours and friends - rely for employment and for financial independence for themselves and their families.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: I am happy to see an inquiry carried out. The Minister for Finance inherited a relationship framework that was put in place by the previous Government and the Minister for Finance at the time. The purpose of that was to keep politicians at arm's length and for IBRC to conduct its ordinary business without any day-to-day interference by politicians in its affairs, so that it could...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: I will go to the United States or the United Kingdom and I will certainly meet with people like stock exchange authorities to promote Ireland for investment, for employment and for business. I make no apology for that, because in the world I live in, working class people actually need jobs, and the important thing is that they get jobs, that they get training and that they get...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: How dare she criticise me-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for promoting employment? How dare she criticise me-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for promoting employment in Ireland and helping people to find jobs in Ireland? I have no idea what her vision-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for Ireland is. Does she just want nobody to work and no promotion of our country for tourism or visitors?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: Does she want nobody working in this country? Does she want our agricultural sector lying idle, with nobody working? Her vision seems to be that people should not work at all. I make no apologies to her or to any of her colleagues-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for promoting work, employment and investment in this country-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----whether in the United States, in the European Union or in the United Kingdom.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has a different view. Obviously she is entitled to her view, but I am happy to promote Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: When the Minister for Finance got critical representations from staff and officials in his Department and he was using the framework inherited from the previous Government, he actually undertook to have the decisions examined.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: Not only that, but he changed the framework-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and provided an assistant secretary to oversee transactions-----