Results 32,521-32,540 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and the not-for-profit sector has made to the development of health services in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: That is a very important role. I do not know whether Fianna Fáil is saying it is going to shut down all of that, but again I want to say, and I heard Deputy Kelleher refer to chartered accountants-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I have to confess that I am originally a chartered accountant myself and all I can say is that, like lots of other professions, chartered accountants have a wide range of views on different issues. The Minister was speaking-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and I think it is to be welcomed. He was speaking in a broad way-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: He was not talking about Government policy.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: He was talking about his own thoughts and views on how the health service should develop.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: It would be great if we could hear any views whatsoever from anybody in Fianna Fáil, because since about 2004-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----all the party has done is run away.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: By the way, as Deputies know, the funding for health has expanded very significantly-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----in the budget for this year and the funding being committed to health has expanded very significantly. Yes, we have serious problems that have to be addressed, and we are addressing those problems by funding them.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Kelleher is claiming that Fianna Fáil was an equaliser in some way in terms of what happened in this country over the last seven years. Fianna Fáil's form of equalisation is for 300,000 people to lose their jobs and go on social welfare-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----so their income falls.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil's form of equalisation is that businesses all over the country close down and then people who own those businesses are much worse off-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil's form of equality is to cut the minimum wage for workers in work by €1 an hour.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: That is a poor form of equality.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Government is acutely conscious of the impact of debt on families across the country and we are determined to see that it is resolved. People have to move forward with their lives and I understand the worry and stress that is involved for people when they have big mortgage debt in respect of their homes. In other cases, people who got married bought a house and may have held on to an...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: First, to go back to the three independent experts who are writing articles regularly and following the details of what happens in different courts around the country, the title of a recent article was, "Inside the property repossession courts, where only one in five borrowers turn up". If Deputy McDonald is interested in a solution for borrowers that helps them away from the dreadful worry...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am sitting beside the Minister of State in the Department of Social Protection, who - many of the Deputies here will be familiar with this at local level in their constituencies - on 1 October last, with the Money Advice and Budgeting Service funded by my Department, initiated a mentoring system so that anyone who goes to court can have assistance in the court.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: A question which would be reasonable, if Deputy McDonald put it, is could we move that process to an earlier point.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Could we move that process back without having to go to court at all? The answer is "Yes"-----