Results 32,781-32,800 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: What are we supposed to believe?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: If the Deputy is gracious enough to give me the opportunity to address it, of course I will address it.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Eventually, after the Deputy's histrionics.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Will the Deputy lay off the histrionics?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: If he wants an answer, he just has to shut up for a while and listen to the answer.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I suppose Sinn Féin could be accused of folding the cards and running back to Westminster on the issue of welfare reform.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: That is what it chose to do. Hopefully from its point of view it will not hear about it until sometime after the elections in different parts of this island. Deputy McDonald has a bit of a cheek to talk about people folding when Sinn Féin Members are the champions of it as they have shown again this week.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The only solution to housing in this country following the huge collapse in building following the difficulties the country had and which now thankfully we are exiting, is to actually build more housing. The heart of the Government's housing proposal is to build more units through a variety of mechanisms. This is under way as we speak in every part of the country. Is it under way as...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Right now throughout the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----there are significant allocations to every local authority to recommence the building of social houses.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Second, we have NAMA committed to building a significant number of affordable and social housing, which has already started. Third, we have the recent announcement of the further investment being provided in respect of a further 1,500 units by the Strategic Investment Fund. All of this means we have under way the biggest housing programme ever undertaken in Ireland
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I understand and I share Sinn Féin's desire to see houses being built, both affordable houses and houses for social housing and for rent, throughout the country. That is a common view shared by everybody in the House. That is what we are actually doing. I was present this week at a very nice handing-over ceremony in my constituency, where the first set of new houses will be handed...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Forty-four.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Another seven houses will be handed over after Christmas.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: That is in addition to what Deputy McDonald and I discussed on many occasions, namely, ending the practice of voided houses being closed up.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In Dublin City Council that has resulted in hundreds of families being housed this year. The Deputy might not check the facts but I invite him to go and check the facts.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In my area, Fingal County Council has reduced the practice of houses being boarded up-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----when they become vacant to a very small number, less than 35, but one needs to repair houses and that is all now done within six months.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am happy to say that houses are one of the most important commitments of this Government. We have supplied the funding. I want to see the councillors on all the county councils co-operate with county managers around the country to get houses built.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In some cases councillors have delayed the building of houses-----