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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: A breakdown by scheme of the average time to award claims during August 2015 (where available) is detailed in the tabular statement below. Note that the processing times shown in the table incorporate the impact of the appeals process. Average Time to Award Claims August 2015 Scheme Average Time to Award Claims (Weeks) Supplementary Welfare Allowance 1 Child Benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned did not receive a jobseeker's allowance payment within the last five years. The client made a claim for jobseeker’s allowance on 14 February 2013, but the person concerned did not provide the required documentation and this application lapsed. The person concerned was paid supplementary welfare allowance for the following dates: 25 November, 2010 - 9 December,...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. He has done so in a very helpful manner. I do not believe there is anybody in the House who is not interested in hearing some of the responses to allegations that have been thrown around. I am conscious that the Deputy's colleague, Deputy John McGuinness, is leading an all-party Committee of Public Accounts inquiry committee in regard to the...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Exactly.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Let me be very clear. Deputy Kelleher's colleague beside him will remember the long debates in this House that went through the night on several occasions, in which I represented the Labour Party.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The Deputy should bear with me now. The point is that we made a decision collectively, for good or for bad, as a Parliament. I think it was for the good - I supported the late Mr. Brian Lenihan in his position - that politicians should be removed from the process. Otherwise, every little developer and every big developer in the country could be involved. I was a member of the old Dublin...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I am glad that Fianna Fáil now supports that approach.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I have no difficulty, nor has the Government, with NAMA going to any institution in the North of Ireland. We do not dictate to NAMA----

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The Fianna Fáil Deputies are trying to have their cake and eat it.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Their party caused the bank crash. That was bad enough. It established NAMA. I was a critic of it and am still-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The Deputies should hold on and listen. As far as I am concerned it is a decision for NAMA if it chooses to go to the North. I would be perfectly happy----

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I cannot tell them----

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: It is an agency which operates as far as possible with a remit which is free from the day-to-day pressures of politics-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: It was established in order to get the country out of a mega debt problem which unfortunately we inherited courtesy of Fianna Fáil, along with a mega crash.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I have no problem with NAMA going North but I want the NAMA board and executives to reach a business decision.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: NAMA is currently before the public accounts committee chaired very ably by one of the Deputy's colleagues.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: All of these issues are now being debated there. I do not have a difficulty as Tánaiste, nor am I aware that anyone else in Government has a difficulty with NAMA making a decision to go before the committee in the North. It is a decision for it to reach.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: That is unfair, the Deputy is not jealous of John McGuinness. We know that.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: This is the other side of the NAMA story.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: One of the Deputy's.