Results 33,281-33,300 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: They have all of the figures. I will write to the new Governor of the Central Bank to say this is a very important consumer issue.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy talked about something slightly different in the case of the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan. I am perfectly happy to and will write to the new Governor who only took up office two weeks ago to ask him, given that he has a lot of economists working for him, to undertake a detailed review of the matter, as the Central Bank has done in a series of other areas in quarterly reports...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should not say to consumers that they should not shop around.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The health service and its staff have considerable achievements to show, particularly in the context of four or seven years ago when they were subject to the trials and difficulties of an economy crashed by Fianna Fáil through the bank guarantee and the collapse of the construction industry and resources were tight. Notwithstanding that, as patients throughout the country will verify,...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: This does not mean the health service does not have problems or that it is not requesting additional funds. The scale of the challenge for the health service was acknowledged when, as part of the budget for next year, an extra €900 million was allocated to our health service. Performance reports indicate that waiting lists had reduced by the end of August. We are also developing a...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy may have sought to read her scripted remarks with some force, but she utterly lacked any sense of conviction, as if she would know, as a member of a party led by somebody who had to hop across to America for his private health treatment, or as if she would have any idea of what the health service in this country is about.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy's condescension and patronising remarks towards the hard-working staff of the health service-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy's condescending and patronising remarks-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy failed to recognise-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: Are you able to keep them under control, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: Notwithstanding the Deputy's remarks about Christmas being the season of goodwill, which I presume were thrown into the comments in order to make a joke of people wanting to have a happy Christmas and season of goodwill-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputies are so focused on aggression.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: What is their policy for the health service?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: Their policy for the health service-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: It is not. There are no costs in it at all.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: That document has no costings in it at all.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: It has no mechanism for paying.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: Let me conclude on this.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: One of Sinn Féin's proposals, in a position where we are seeking to recruit hospital consultants, is to slash their wages.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: In how many extra hospital consultants-----