Results 33,601-33,620 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: Last week - Deputy Donnelly follows these matters and I am sure he has read it - the NTMA sold €3 billion of Irish bonds at a rate very slightly above 0.1%-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----just above the German rate. We could have sold bonds-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----at three times that value such was the demand.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: That is the difference between now and when the country lost its economic sovereignty. Of course, there are matters we must fix. I have just stated we have an ambitious target to reduce the debt even further this year.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: By the way-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----if Deputy Donnelly read the executive summary-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----he would know that what they have recommended, which recipe Deputy Donnelly seems to be following, is actually to use all additional funds to pay down debt, to give no relief to workers-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----and to put no extra funding into services.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: We have a balanced budget which is aimed at reducing the debt and the cost of servicing the debt.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: We have a balanced budget that is aiming at getting people back to work. We have a balanced budget that is aiming at getting more businesses back on their feet employing more people and we have a balanced budget which has an ambitious programme in my view, not yet big enough, of capital investment and significant additional investment-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----in health, education, agriculture and social services generally.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 218, motion re hospital emergency departments (resumed) and No. 40, statements on reports of the Convention on the Constitution. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings in relation to No. 40 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 4.42 p.m. today and the following arrangements shall apply: (i) the...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach addressed this yesterday. I am perfectly happy to see more time allocated to these important intertwined issues in relation to a single authority for the Shannon. A Bill on that was published by my colleague, Deputy Penrose, some time ago and some of the current work relies fairly heavily on Deputy Penrose's work, and I acknowledge that work here. On Deputy Michael...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: I have had a very long-standing interest in Moore Street and have had the privilege of being in Nos. 14, 15, 16 and 17 Moore Street. I have also had the opportunity to look very closely at the plans proposed by the various historical experts and public bodies which will undertake the work. While not everybody agrees with this, the proposals rank alongside what I have seen done in similar...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: There is nothing wrong with people in the north side of Dublin wanting to shop in the vicinity of the GPO. I have done it all my life, and it is one of the great pleasures of being around the GPO and being in Henry Street and the surrounding area.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: We need a plan which will reinstate the fabric, give the experience to people who visit and make us all proud. It means the strictest planning guidelines must be adopted on the whole area, which includes much of the city centre between the canals. Dublin City Council has an extraordinarily serious responsibility in this. I hope all the bodies can agree, and we should not take cheap shots...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: Everybody has shopped there for decades and generations.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: My colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, dealt with the matter yesterday during Question Time. The Deputy might care to examine the very detailed responses. There are just under 400 community services programme, CSP, sponsored and supported companies throughout the country and more than 60% of them pay more than the minimum wage. Yesterday, the Minister of State, Deputy...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: He also said we will deal case by case over the coming weeks with CSPs which are affected. Many of the organisations raise funds through various services they provide and receive income streams from other Departments and users of the services. We will deal with it case by case over the next few weeks. I am very confident that what is a very progressive move to increase the minimum wage by...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: It is listed for publication in the next few weeks.