Results 32,241-32,260 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: With respect, I read the submission.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy needs to go back and study. I specifically spoke about people who, in the context of nursing incomes, could be working part-time and earning up to €13,000. That group would be lifted out of the universal social charge net entirely. The USC has also been reduced significantly for people on the lower rates. However, the real gain is for people with a medium level of...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The detail of the question the Deputy asks would be better directed to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport as it concerns references to specific companies which could have been addressed if the Deputy had provided them in advance. I undertake to have the matter examined and to revert to the Deputy with a reply. I acknowledge the welcome the haulage industry has given to the...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: That is probably the most significant development and it has been widely welcomed by the industry. Given that he is raising issues around qualifications for those coming into the industry, the Deputy will be aware that SOLAS and the Department of Education and Skills have agreed with the haulage industry to develop traineeships for new and young people coming into the industry to qualify for...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has not said whether he has approached the competition authority. If this matter is purely one of competition, I would expect the competition authority to be interested in it were it referred by the Deputy and others. I go back to what I said about the budget. There are a lot of young people, as the Deputy knows, who could find very good and well-paid employment in the haulage...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I hope the Deputy would like to see young guys being able to get into the industry.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Yes, but I am talking about young people being able to get into the haulage industry through apprenticeships and traineeships.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy did not make it clear whether or not he had referred any queries to the competition authority. I have given the Deputy an undertaking which I will fulfil to go to the Minister and get a response. However, the Deputy has not indicated whether he has taken the matter to the competition authority. What he has outlined is a competition issue. I do not know if the Deputy is saying...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: As such, the Deputy has been to the competition authority. I will take the matter up and come back to him with a response.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 6, motion re referral to select sub-committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the terms of the intergovernmental agreement on the transfer and mutualisation of contributions to the Single Resolution Fund; No. 17, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 4(7)) (Membership of...
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I agree with the Deputy regarding the RSA. The reports that have emerged regarding drink-driving conviction rates in certain courts are disturbing. I understand that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is examining the matter as a priority. We have seen further reports of people who, having been convicted, were involved in further accidents, some of them resulting in death and...
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I will have to revert to the Deputy. I understand that the matter is before the courts.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I am sorry, but I am finding it difficult to hear the Deputy.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: That is better.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Data protection is important to everyone in Ireland. Financial data are some of the most sensitive data that are held on individuals, families and businesses. There was a public consultation, now completed, on the proposed legislative changes. There was also a policy paper. The preparation of legislation would be the next step. I understand that this has commenced, but it will be next...
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The title of the legislation got a little bit lost in Deputy Kelleher's contribution.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: On 7 October, the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, wrote a very extensive, detailed four-page letter to the Deputy's party leader.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I invite him to ask his party leader to share the content of the letter with him. Otherwise, I will ask his party leader whether it would be in order for me to give him the letter. It sets out in great detail all the issues the Deputy has raised. Since I am sure the Deputy and his party leader are in fairly constant daily communication-----
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: -----he must have had access to it.
- Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Among other achievements, it sets out the policy on free general practitioner care for those aged under six and over 70. This has been rolled out as part of universal health care. There was a commitment, which would not have been known publicly on 7 October, to the rolling out of free general practitioner care to primary school children, or children aged 11 and under. It refers to the...