Results 32,981-33,000 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: It is one of the best innovations that has happened in our health system in recent years because it allows chronically ill older persons with medical conditions to be checked out over a number of hours or longer, as required. People do not have to be in the queues to which the Deputy referred. The Deputy is shaking her head. Obviously she has never seen-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Obviously she has never seen these urgent assessment units. We have some of the best staff in the world working in our hospitals.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: It is in everybody's interests to come together and resolve the situation using the industrial relations machinery of the State. The Deputy hardly wants to see nurses going on strike.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: She is not suggesting that she wants that. I accept she does not want to see nurses who work hard going on strike. We want to resolve this issue, which we will do by providing more beds and employing more nurses.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Some 700 extra nurses have been employed this year and 400 nurses are currently in the recruitment process for additional staff. We are in favour of reducing USC for low-paid workers.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: That is why Sinn Féin voted against tax cuts for lower paid workers.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: With regard to Project Eagle, I am advised the loan sale was executed in a proper manner, and despite all the different charges the Deputy has made, and charges against named individuals who are not in a position to comment or defend their good name in the House-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----but the Deputy has named them nonetheless, I am told the facts are there are no claims of wrongdoing against NAMA. However, the Deputy clearly has issues with regard to the people he has named. Clearly, at the base or back of his particular complaints is probably his own unfortunate experience, to which he has referred on many occasions. Understandably, he has a very strong vested...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: As somebody who was involved in the building trade, I know from some of the public records and the media that he suffered. This does not mean that because he feels a very strong personal sense of grievance, which I understand, that his claims of wrongdoing against NAMA stand up. I said to him before on this that NAMA is answerable to the Committee of Public Accounts. I strongly advise the...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I appreciate the Deputy's concern in the matter, and if he has had no contact with NAMA, I accept that, but I certainly have seen in the public media and I am aware that he was a very fine developer and builder who lost out, as so many others did, in the course of the property collapse in Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has set out on Leaders' Questions a series of very detailed questions relating to a specific institution - NAMA - that is answerable to the Committee of Public Accounts. The Deputy is, I suppose, using a trick deployed by lawyers. He is asking a question and he is very confident he knows the answer to it but I have had no notice of it.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In all honesty, I cannot conceivably-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----answer it.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I cannot answer those questions. If Deputy Wallace is serious about getting an answer to those questions, although I presume what he is really trying to do is publicise-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: He is naming people I do not know. I do not know who these people are, although I have seen some of the names in the public domain.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy expects me to answer these questions. He really ought to go to the Committee of Public Accounts and if he has evidence of wrongdoing, he should take it to the Garda.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: He should take it to the authorities in Northern Ireland-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and in any other jurisdiction where he is claiming to have evidence of wrongdoing.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am not in a position to answer-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I care very deeply.