Results 32,541-32,560 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----if we can get the borrowers who, for a variety of reasons, including enormous worry and stress about debt, will not do so-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----to engage with the lender. One cannot get a settlement for those involved unless one can get both lender and borrower to sit down together and work it out.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In working it out, deals are being made between banks and borrowers that are giving people a variety of arrangements-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----which will allow them to hold their family home and which will ease the burden of debt.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: For anyone who is experiencing difficulties with debt-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----I plead with them either to go to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, to go to their local banks or whoever loaned them the money and seek to arrive at an agreement where they can have a negotiated settlement of the debt-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and they can then stay in their own home. Keeping people in their homes has been the cornerstone of the Government's policy from day one.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Happily, significant numbers of cases are being settled, and the Courts Service has been extremely caring towards most of the families coming before the courts and is acutely sensitive to the stress and worry families are under.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Hundreds of thousands of mortgage holders are paying their mortgages, and as we recover and more people return to work, more people are reaching settlements with their lenders.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I thank the Deputy. I appreciate what she said regarding the importance of the services that CE schemes deliver throughout the country. There are more than 1,000 CE schemes and more than 22,000 people participate in schemes. They make an enormous contribution to their local communities and provide a range of services, including helping with services for older and retired people,...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: While I appreciate these are small amounts, it has been the first significant improvement. As well as emphasising improvements for older and retired people over 66, I have made a point of ensuring all participants in any schemes will receive an increase in their total social welfare payments from 1 January.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy refers to particular schemes that are involved with the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Health. After I became Minister, I provided for 1,000 ring-fenced places in schemes which cater for and assist people who are in rehabilitation from drugs. These places continue to exist. Over recent years as demand for such services has spread out more widely...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In addition, community employment is one of the avenues that can be used to give opportunities to younger people. We have opened up to Tús to self-referral. Some 20% of Tús placements can now be made by people applying and putting themselves forward. Like the community employment scheme, Tús has proven to be very popular throughout the country. As we have been saying about...
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 17b, Finance Bill 2015 – Financial Resolutions; No. 17c, Finance Bill 2015 – allocation of time motion for select sub-committee; No. 46, Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 - Report and Final Stages (resumed); No. 47, Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015 - Second Stage (resumed); and No....
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Kelleher asked about the Private Residential Tenancies Board. I understand that there are a number of amendments to come forward.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy also asked about the need for planning legislation in respect of modular housing. A number of applications have been received from a number of local authorities.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am not aware of any fresh legislative requirement in that regard. I hope I have understood Deputy Kelleher's question properly.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am informed that the establishment of a national patient safety office in the Department of Health will not require specific legislation. I believe the Minister for Health was on the radio this morning.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: As I understand it, work is under way as we speak.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: On the first question on the health information and patient safety Bill, the Deputy may recall that since this Dáil commenced there has been a series of very traumatic disclosures relating to issues around patient health and safety, particularly in maternity care. All of us here recall what happened to families who lost babies in the Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise and in other...