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- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----by one point throughout the country. This might not matter to the Deputy but it matters an awful to families with children.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: We have also rolled out medical cards to children aged under six-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----and to people aged over 70. If returned to government, we will do this for all children under 18 over a five-year period, and roll it out to older people as resources permit. On Anglo Irish Bank and the other banking matters, if we took Fianna Fáil's proposal and its agreement with the troika, last year would have seen Ireland pay €11 billion in interest costs. We...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----at much lower interest rates, which is, by the way, what I recommended in opposition as the Labour Party spokesperson on finance.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: The actual interest costs in 2015 were below €7 billion. In other words, what was planned by Fianna Fáil to be a charge of €11 billion-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----actually came in at below €7 billion.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: In the scheme of things we now have a dynamic recovery in the economy, but Sinn Féin lives in an economic bubble of its own in which inconvenient facts do not matter. It has no jobs plan for getting the country back to work.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: It has no plan for investment in the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----and it has no plan for families to get a better deal for taxation.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: It proposes to raise taxes on ordinary families.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: It proposes to have an economy which stalls and which does not emphasise work and prosperity for businesses and families. Its economic platform is an empty bubble.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: My understanding of the SUSI development, which is the online system for students to get college grants, is the contract was actually awarded to the City of Dublin VEC, which subsequently became the City of Dublin Education and Training Board. It made the arrangements on how what was a new and very ambitious computer-based application system would be delivered. As the Deputy knows,...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: I am not familiar with the detailed operation of the company about which the Deputy is concerned. My understanding is that it is a company based in Cork, which has a significant number of employees. I am not au faitwith the details of its financial arrangements or its financial standing or position, but if there is information we can acquire to assist the Deputy, I would be happy to seek to...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: We now know, for instance, that 61% of people are paying their water bills.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: When the water conservation grant was-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----issued by my Department, including to people in rural Ireland on group schemes and with their own private wells, we received and were able, on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, over a relatively short period, based on an online application system-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----to pay it to well over 800,000 people. We are all aware there have been difficulties and teething problems in the set-up stages of Irish Water-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----but the point is that Irish Water is now providing a service. Even during the recent floods, thankfully, the standard of water quality, which was a major risk in terms of the flood episodes-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----throughout the country, was maintained.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: I spoke to Deputy McGrath about the Cabinet discussions on the impact of the flooding. One of the areas-----