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- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: When this Government came into office the first thing we did was abolish a series of privileges which applied to politicians, in particular, to officeholders who served in government. We abolished all of the transition payments relating to retiring Ministers. Not only that, but Ministers and others who would serve henceforth received and took significant cuts in their salaries and in their...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I did not see them offering that.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I did not see them offering that.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Perhaps Deputy Fitzmaurice might lead by example. Perhaps he does not take that particular payment.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Perhaps Deputy Fitzmaurice would lead or, in terms of his fellow Independent Deputies, address-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Fitzmaurice-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Fitzmaurice said that he would support moves that "can legally be done" - that was the phrase he used. In that, his has used a very wise phrase, one with which I concur. This is because it is the same constitutional advice as has been given to the Government.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: It is related to the financial emergency measures. The financial emergency period, thankfully, is over and is beginning to recede.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: That is because of the sacrifices the people in Ireland have made. The legal advice to us, whether Deputies like it, is relevant. Deputy Fitzmaurice talked about what can be legally done. I accept the spirit in which he is making his proposal. However, he asked that we could see what can legally be done.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I will certainly take it up again with the Attorney General. However, a range of legal advice suggests that a pension right is a particular right people have. It was reduced in the emergency for people on over €100,000 by 20% and upwards. It was reduced even more by this Government when we came into office for current and future officeholders and Members. That was agreed and it was...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: At the moment according to the legal advice that is available to us, the recourse is that the people involved, whether they are in America sunning themselves, as Deputy Halligan has suggested-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Then, it behoves them and perhaps their former party members in the House - I am referring to the former party of government - to advise them that in the public interest they should actually not take what would be, in effect, some reduction in the level of reduction they are currently taking.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: My God, we will miss them. They left very fast.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: They actually have. They went out the door. They have gone away.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: They left. It is proposed to take No. 44, Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015 - Report and Final Stages (resumed); No. 1a, Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015 - Amendments from the Seanad; No. 1b, Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015 - Amendments from the Seanad; No. 16, motion re Appointment of a Member of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (back from committee); No. 7,...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: It sounds from the contributions of some people that they probably need a little bit of a rest from this House.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: However, if anybody should want to stay here throughout August, I will be happy to have the Fianna Fáil Members come in and we will sit here, if necessary. I presume that is what Fianna Fáil might support. I am happy to stay here right through the summer period. However, I will be working next week and the week after to get people in my constituency and every other constituency...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and get young people into apprenticeships and put more money into people's pockets.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: We are reforming and reducing the universal social charge and other taxes so people can have a higher standard of living. It seems that the Deputies opposite do not want people to do better or to go back to work. We do, however. Our mandate is to put more money into people's pockets and increase their standard of living.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: An aspect of achieving a better standard of living involves improving water supplies and sewerage infrastructure. This legislation implements the report of the Law Reform Commission and, among other things, ends the practice of imprisoning people for ordinary debt, a practice that dates from Dickensian times. I am happy that in a reforming Dáil like this, we are bringing such a practice...