Results 21-39 of 39 for dogs speaker:Joan Burton

Did you mean: does speaker:49?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: From the Seanad (12 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: ...determining how NAMA performs and behaves. Some of the amendments are so confused, particularly the ones dealing with people employed or acting within NAMA who commit an offence, that they are a dog's breakfast. That is the only way I can describe it. Three amendments on the later pages are entirely contradictory with each other and with the sections 220 and 221 to which they relate....

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Burton: ...as members of the EPP, accept Dr. von der Leyen's decision to label the Commissioner in charge of migration issues as the vice-president for protecting our European way of life? We are all used to dog-whistle politics whereby words are used to set a certain tone. This has a history in different European countries. Dr. von der Leyen has nominated a Hungarian politician, Mr....

Customs and Excise. (28 Sep 2006)

Joan Burton: ..., one sees that we are very vulnerable. We want the kind of surveillance at those small airports that one has nowadays in Dublin Airport. Statistics on seizures there show that the use of sniffer dogs and more up-to-date technology to track flights and so on will, over a period, produce results. We clearly now have an unlocked door at small airports regarding smuggling and the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2012)

Joan Burton: ...Support 51,540 Core International Corepay Development & Upgrade 38,402 Core International Online Overtime 1,016 Fujitsu Ireland Ltd Payment & Agency Reconciliation (PARP) Implementation 24,200 Fujitsu Ireland Ltd Oracle Financials & Business Objects 13,950 Red Dog Graphic Design on various SDM Projects 944 2012 Expenditure Consultancies and Reports - I.T External...

Finance Bill 2011: Committee Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Joan Burton: ...gambling. People are holding up slot machine casinos as a way to save Ireland. This is a trap and we would live to regret the social impact on society. A day out at the races or a night at the dogs is a great and enjoyable experience and very attractive to visitors. We should think about how best to encourage and promote this as part of an overall development of leisure amenities and...

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: ...and to plan how to best use resources to give all of our children a head start in education. The situation of school planning, site acquisition and budgetary provision can only be described as a dog's dinner. Schools that have been promised extensions, such as St. Brigid's in Beechpark in Castleknock, have been dropped from the urgent list to some indefinite time in the future. At a time...

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (18 May 2010)

Joan Burton: ...gatherers trying to pick us off as the weakest in the pack, we must work to become stronger. I lived in Africa for a time and often had an opportunity to observe the antics of hyenas and hunting dogs. The strongest pack is the one that shelters its young and ensures that they, as the weaker elements, do not easily become prey. Too much deflation, too quickly and in the wrong areas, will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (13 Mar 2014)

Joan Burton: ...x20ac;24,200 Inpute Technologies Digital Documents €18,906 Fujitsu Ireland Oracle Financials & Business Objects €13,950 Bearing Point Migration of CWS Staff HR Records €12,705 Core International Online Overtime €1,016 Red Dog Design work on various SDM projects...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: ...because the former Taoiseach operated in a particular way and Deputy Brian Cowen, as Minister for Finance, could not bring himself to believe that Anglo Irish Bank was going to crash. However, the dogs on the street knew that Anglo Irish Bank's business model was bust. That bank was basically a developers' bank as was clear from the draft report the Department sent to Brussels, which was...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: ...the victim back in the dock. Will the first step ever be taken by republicans? Since she went public, Maíria has had to endure a whispering campaign against her on the streets, and a very public assault on her character by Sinn Féin supporters online. The least she deserves is that the Sinn Féin president calls off the dogs of war on Maíria Cahill. She must be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts Data (25 Mar 2014)

Joan Burton: ...Net Affinity Ltd Poverty Research Initiative Awards €291 Grant Aided Research => not included in response NUI Galway Poverty Research Initiative Awards €5,000 Grant Aided Research => not included in response NUI Maynooth Poverty Research Initiative Awards €6,500 Grant Aided Research => not included in response OECD OECD Review of Long Term...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (27 Mar 2014)

Joan Burton: ...Aided Research => not included in response - Eleanor Ashe Poverty Research Initiative Awards €1,750 Grant Aided Research => not included in response - John Grenham Report on GRO Records €3,557 Contract awarded pre May 2011 => not included in response - KPMG Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund €153,750 Actuarial Review of Social...

Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage. (7 Feb 2006)

Joan Burton: ...of the policy in the taxation feel good factor of the Minister for Finance's predecessor, former Deputy McCreevy. I knew the Minister well and he was a great man for betting on a horse or dog, as well as for a punt on a tax break. A hunch told him that it would do the trick. I noticed that the Minister recently used the term "health industry". The Government has abandoned the concept of...

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 Feb 2008)

Joan Burton: ...from the Fianna Fail-Progressive Democrats Government created tax loopholes for the very rich when times were very good and now, when good government is required, the Tánaiste has no answers. The dogs on the street can see the economy is slowing, and has been, since this coalition was returned to government. The question is: What will the Tánaiste do about it? The Bill indicates his...

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Joan Burton: ...these errors and mismanagement. The weary citizen is moved to protest but gets the cold shoulder for his or her trouble. Like General Smuts, Fianna Fáil sneers in thinly disguised contempt. The dogs bark but the wagons carry on. This sums up Fianna Fáil and what we witnessed this afternoon. It is the Fianna Fáil attitude in a nutshell, in that the arrogance of long decades in power...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: ...we have been told that a committee consisting of the great and the good, all either Secretaries General of Departments or other eminent people, are looking at the issue of bankers' pay. Like a dog with no teeth chewing a bone, the committee has chewed on this bone for nearly three months and has not got to the meat and marrow of the issue. We have heard nothing from the committee. The...

Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2009)

Joan Burton: ...it did happen, and the mechanism of the inspector will offer the Government a vehicle to clear up the matter. We heard from Deputy Morgan that one of his constituents went to jail for not having a dog licence. As the Minister will be aware, people in Dublin West regularly opt to spend a few days in Mountjoy Prison because they do not have a television licence. I try to sort out the...

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: ...smearing of public sector staff in recent weeks in which Ministers have connived. If there is to be a blame game, they want to have someone else in the firing line. They have let loose the dogs of war on every public employee. Why should the private sector go down this cul-de-sac? It is private sector businesses who benefit most from public spending. It is private businesses that...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Burton: ...for Finance is about when the country is crying out for investment in transport. The biggest threats from Brexit are to the agricultural economy and how producers get their goods to market, particularly our biggest market, namely, the UK. We need serious additional investment in public transport and in the maintenance and improvement of our road system. The dogs on the street know that...