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Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I was not talking about the Deputy personally.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I express my sympathy to the people living in the development at Longboat Quay. I can imagine how worrying it is for people who have bought apartments there and who took out mortgages over a long period. Dublin Fire Brigade, in seeking to ensure there are proper fire regulations in respect of those apartments and every other set of apartments, is performing a very important public service...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Why not?

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The one thing I do regret reading about Dublin City Council in recent days was that it took a sprightly but elderly woman - I think she was 90 - to court over a satellite television debt. To be perfectly honest, I think Dublin City Council might have been better rewarded by dealing with the issue, albeit a planning infringement, by concentrating its resources on some of the issues that...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The council can do it.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: First, I have to declare an interest as, like most people here, I am a credit union member and have been over a long period. I basically agree with the Deputy that credit unions are incredibly important to people across the length and breadth of this country. They provide a mechanism for friendly financial services that people respect and enjoy. In addition, we have specialist credit...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I am a very strong supporter of the credit union movement. It is the friendliness, approachability and quality of personal service that is available from credit unions that is extremely attractive to people who put their savings into credit unions and using their services, not just in rural areas but also in inner-city communities and new communities around cities. My Department has...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 14, proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Exchange of Information Relating to Tax Matters (Argentine Republic) Order 2015 (back from committee); No. 15, proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia) Order 2015 (back from committee); No. 16, proposed approval by...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: There will be a dedicated debate on the capital programme, which will put a significant amount of public investment into the capital programme over the next five years. In fact it will provide employment, particularly in the building trade for tens of thousands of people-----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: -----working in that industry.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: We inherited from Fianna Fáil-----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: ----- a country where unfortunately because of its misguided-----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: -----and failed actions on the building industry-----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: -----we ended up with the receivers coming into Ireland from the IMF-----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: -----and the other institutions.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: We took on the rescue and we are now at a position-----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: We are now at a position where there has been an enormous improvement in the number of houses now being built. My constituency is a hive of development activity because it is on the outskirts of Dublin. I have not seen such levels of building activity. I know most of the people who are here would not be familiar with Blanchardstown and areas like that.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Across the constituency we now have a very significant recommencement of building homes for families which is welcome. That is happening particularly right across Dublin but it is also happening in all the other regions.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: We are also developing a very ambitious social housing programme.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: We will be very happy and there will be a debate next week on the capital programme. That will certainly happen next week.