Results 32,501-32,520 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Labour Party view on the health service is rooted in the concept of an organised, efficient, effective and caring health service, delivered for the most part through the public health service. As the Deputy is aware, it has been delivered for centuries in this country by not-for-profit institutions, many of them religious in origin, which have provided care and health services to...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: They certainly had a very strong view of the role of the private sector in the health services.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In its budget submission this year, Fianna Fáil referenced the accident and emergency department crisis but in its pre-budget statement, I did not see it proposing the allocation of additional funding that this Government has provided. We are all involved in a debate and I would not exclude the Deputy's party from being involved with it.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil has a particular history with regard to the HSE and what it was trying to achieve in health services. We have a health service in this country that comes with a very strong public service ethic. It is really important that we maintain that to the highest degree. We also inherited a sector of the health service that is not-for-profit, with much of it originating with...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Here is the man himself.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I forgot to say earlier, in the context of this Government, I want to congratulate in particular the people in Deputy Kelleher's constituency on the announcement by Apple yesterday of 1,000 extra jobs in the constituency-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----in Hollyhill. I know the Ministers of State, Deputies Kathleen Lynch and Dara Murphy, will be very pleased about that.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In the same way that Deputy Kelleher probably has a very positive relationship at local level with those Ministers of State from this Government-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am sure he does welcome the Apple announcement. It is a great announcement for the northside of Cork.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Kelleher threw out a general-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----remark-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: ----- about the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Government is doing what it promised to do, which is to restore the economy-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and get people back to work. That is the number one job of the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: By the way, this year in the HSE we are employing, overall, about an extra 4,000 people-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----which is the first significant recruitment that has happened. My vision of the health service and the Labour Party's vision of the health service is of-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----a publicly funded, well-run health service.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Bearing in mind, as well-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----the long not-for-profit voluntary health service tradition that also exists in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I do not know whether Fianna Fáil wants to see the back of that, but the Labour Party does not want to see the back of the huge contribution the voluntary sector-----