Results 34,561-34,580 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: I want to be helpful to the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality because I want to help the public. We all are clear that we want an efficient, professional modernised police force that can apprehend criminals who are doing a great deal of damage in this State. Part of this investigation was about serious matters that happened regarding crimes committed and which were part of...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: We have seen today, for instance, that the word "malice" was not, in fact, used by the Garda authorities. The suggestion in what is in the media today is that the word may have been used by the judge himself as part of some discussion or adversarial process in the questioning.

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: What I want to ask the Tánaiste is, will she explain, and has she spoken to the Commissioner about, the legal strategy-stratagems that were undertaken, and will she share that or give us an indication of that in this House because the end objective is shared by everybody? We want to reform the Garda.

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: Can the Tánaiste answer the question?

Order of Business (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach attended the Kennedy centre in Washington yesterday for the opening of Ireland 100, a major festival of the Irish Arts, which I believe will be enormously successful but while he was quite properly attending those celebrations, it is a little incongruous that at home there is widespread concern in the arts committee at the downgrading and lack of commitment in the programme for...

Order of Business (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: It is critical in terms of how we live our lives in this country that there should be a Minister for the environment. Can the Tánaiste tell us who is the Minister for the environment? Could the word "environment" be reinstated in the title of the Department? Would that require legislation? It is absolutely important that we are clear on this. It is very good to have a Minister for...

Order of Business (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: Where is the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the issues that have come to light arising from publication of the Panama Papers, in particular the use by certain parties of tax havens as a means of avoiding paying tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10831/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he has held any discussions with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr David Cameron on its possible exit from the European Union; the effect this would have on the Irish economy, the United Kingdom economy and relations between the two jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10918/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population Publication (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Central Statistics Office will publish the initial findings and the entire findings of Census 2016. [10919/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Functions (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the costings of proposals submitted to his Department by independent Teachtaí Dála and groups during the discussions on the formation of Government. [10917/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Commission Establishment (18 May 2016)

Joan Burton: 105. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress in establishing the electoral commission and when he will publish the relevant legislation. [10920/16]

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Joan Burton: Given the work all of the members of various groups and parties and individuals have put into this, I suggest we simply extend by two hours today's debate regardless of the time available next week so everyone has an opportunity to contribute.

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Joan Burton: I want to raise, regarding the programme for Government, the issue of the capacity and power of credit unions to issue micro loans to families on low and middle incomes who are otherwise unable to get credit. This scheme was launched last year by me and by the former Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection, Senator Kevin Humphreys. It has been an enormous success such that...

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Joan Burton: Can I say briefly-----

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Joan Burton: -----that we do not need another evaluation?

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Joan Burton: All the evaluations have been done.

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Joan Burton: On the same issue, what we want to see is an amendment to the existing legislation so that we can carry through and give people the right to trace as of now as opposed to the Minister's statement yesterday which appears to kick it out into the long grass, possibly longer than this Government will survive.

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)

Joan Burton: Slurp, slurp.

Order of Business (24 May 2016)

Joan Burton: The programme for Government has a great deal in it about rural Ireland, which is welcome, but very little about urban Ireland. As somebody who grew up and spent most of my life in Dublin's north city, I am very concerned about the fear that is now stalking the area, particularly among children. Will the Taoiseach agree to establish a task force to actively assist schools and parish...