Results 31,841-31,860 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has been one of the cheerleaders for the unfortunate things that happened to the unfortunate people in Greece this year. She suggests to us we would go down the same road.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Hold on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The actual food bank movement in Ireland is a partnership between a range of companies. 10 o’clock The Deputy probably would not approve of that anyway. A range of companies have surplus top quality food or goods and the different charitable and community organisations are used as a mechanism to redistribute that to people who want that. That is instead of having it put into...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Taking the measure of income inequality used internationally by economists such as Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, the Gini coefficient, Ireland does extremely well. Ireland has a level of inequality that is below the average in the European Union and the 28 OECD countries, as well as the United States and the United Kingdom. In other words, we have less inequality in Ireland,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: We can be clear about the figures. The OECD report of 15 September is in the Dáil library and contains Ireland's ratings. It indicates that we rate really well, particularly given the incredibly destroyed economy that Fianna Fáil left us, together with the figure when we entered office of 330,000 people without work. The biggest element in poverty is people, particularly of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I suppose the worst attack made on people at risk of poverty was by Fianna Fáil when it cut social welfare weekly rates.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil cut weekly social welfare rates.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: It made the decision. It could have made other decisions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The previous Government cut weekly social welfare rates by a total of €16.40.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: That Government cut the social welfare rate for carers-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and people on the blind pension by €16.40.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Yes, and I have said that the most-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I am saying-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: This is what I am saying. Deputy O'Dea asked about poverty-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and I said the worst thing that happened-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----in terms of people becoming poor in Ireland-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----was, first of all, that 300,000 people lost their jobs by the time Fianna Fáil left office.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Second, it cut things such as carers' allowance and the blind pension by €16.40 a week. That is its legacy-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: That is its legacy, its testament. In terms of how we-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----change things for people for the better, the first and the most important thing-----