Results 34,541-34,560 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: When the Labour Party came in, we inherited a deficit of €2.8 billion.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: In addition, there has been confirmation from the European Commission that Ireland again will record strong growth this year. These all are tangible signs of progress that will translate into new jobs for workers and into things getting that little bit easier for families who have struggled so much since Fianna Fáil's crash of 2008. This makes it all the more worrying now that the new...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: However, we would do the same again because it is only when the country prospers-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: -----and its people prosper that we get to anything that amounts to the vision of those who sacrificed their lives in the Rising.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: As for this coalition, effectively the agreement means the Civil War is over in political terms. However those parties have been afraid to go the whole hog. As I stated, I await the arrival of Deputy Ross and his indication of what has been agreed between the two parties.
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: I congratulate the new Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality and wish her well in her job. It has been almost one year since the iconic Clerys store on our national main street was unceremoniously shut down and its hard working and loyal staff and many small businesses that operated therein were thrown out onto the streets. In one of the worst examples of corporate greed in...
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: Last week after the Labour Party left office, IBEC strongly refuted the need to change employment law. Does the Government agree with the position taken by the workers or IBEC? This is a simple question. On whose side does the Government stand? After five years of reform to employment and collective bargaining laws inspired by the Labour Party in office, I am horrified to see that the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: -----protecting people in arranged insolvencies, such as that involving Clerys, that appear to be within the framework of common law but manage to turn workers and businesses out onto the street and offer them no protection. The programme for Government is silent on this important issue.
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: Could the Tánaiste tell us about it, please?
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: It is not in the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: Is the Tánaiste aware that, from September onwards, every employer is supposed to offer new fathers two weeks' paternity leave following the birth of a child and that the time to make legislative provision for this welcome and progressive measure is fast running out? When will the family leave Bill 2015 be brought before the House? As the Tánaiste is probably aware, the proposed...
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: We would like to share time. I wish the Minister well in her new responsibilities. I know she is somebody who has expressed views and has been involved in work in the area concerned with children and children's development. I wish her well. I am deeply disappointed that another adoption Bill fails to address the right of adopted people to trace their origins. This is a major failure in...
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: Let us be honest about it - it is not satisfactory. There is no reason reforms of adoption law should be introduced that do not include the right to information and to trace. The Bill arises from the passage of the children's rights referendum in 2012. However, there was the issue of the right to information and to trace long before the referendum was passed, but it now seems to be the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Joan Burton: Those of us with a long enough memory of previous occasions in this House will recall an occasion when someone who is sitting where the Tánaiste is sitting now was found to have had a sheet of paper in his hand when he was under some pressure while answering questions. It was found to have read, "If pursued on this matter, keep repeating exactly the above".
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Joan Burton: First-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Joan Burton: We know Deputy Adams never confesses to anything.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Joan Burton: He has an aversion to ever talking with, let us say, total honesty about all sorts of things in his life.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Joan Burton: I welcome the fact that the Tánaiste acknowledges that the independent policing authority can examine the matter. She seemed to be uncertain about that when questions arose previously. The independent policing authority has both a right and a duty to examine the matter, and I am glad that the Tánaiste acknowledges that should happen because it is appropriate. What we want to...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Joan Burton: Is the Tánaiste prepared to give us that information and explain what happened regarding the legal strategy being pursued on behalf of the Commissioner that is not subject to privilege? It is now in the public domain through the media. Can she explain that to us and explain what her reaction has been to that, whether she has taken that up with the Commissioner and whether she has...