Results 641-660 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: Has the Taoiseach had an opportunity to study the recent comments of the judge who described it as extraordinary that the Government gave a â¬62 million public asset toââ
- Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: I have.
- Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: This is a â¬62 million asset.
- Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: The Government has promised legislation, namely, the Abbotstown sports campus development authority Bill.
- Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: If we do not get an answer on this issue we will think the Taoiseach's make-upââ
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, line 6, to delete "and Terms of Employment". The Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts deal only with notice and no longer deal with terms of employment. Terms of employment are dealt with in a separate Act, the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994. Therefore, we are seeking to amend the collective citation to delete the misleading reference to...
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: I support the amendments proposed by Deputies Bruton and Boyle. It is fortunate the House is taking Report Stage of this Bill in the aftermath of what we now know as a result of the Morris report, the Travers report, the ongoing information which is slowly but surely emerging about the national aquatic centre and the structures adopted to give a â¬62 million public asset to a company...
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: I raise a question I have asked the Minister of State before. The phrase "will and pleasure of the Government" is rather old fashioned. While the Minister of State tells us we are in a brave new world of improved management criteria and reporting to the extent that one would never think our hospitals were in chaos or that people's experience of public transport was so bad, his use of language...
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: As late amendments have just been received, proceedings are quite difficult to follow. The Minister of State has an advantage we do not enjoy.
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: I support Deputy Bruton's amendment. It would be useful in view of all that has happened in recent times, if the Minister of State could outline the exact position on civil servants employed for fixed terms or specified projects as outlined in the Bill. There are a couple of specific examples I want to draw to the Minister of State's attention. The Taoiseach's project to develop Abbotstown is...
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: The Government appointed civil servants to a company in which the share capital is held by the Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism. While I presume the civil servants are on secondment, I cannot know as freedom of information has been abolished.
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: Civil servants on secondment made decisions to give a contract with an accumulated value of â¬62 million to a company with assets of â¬127.
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: I am a Member of the Opposition and it is completely legitimate for me to put the question to the Minister of State who makes provision in sections 5, 6 and 7 of the Bill to appoint civil servants for fixed terms or special projects. We are absolutely entitled to ask the Minister of State to explain how this would operate. It is a legitimate question for the Opposition in Parliament to ask...
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: These are legitimate questions. What are the implications of the Bill for the structure adopted by the Government in regard to the oversight of the National Aquatic Centre? A judge stated last week that what had happened in that regard was unbelievable. The Progressive Democrats Party is never off its high horse about looking after the proper spending of Government money yet a judge has...
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: I have asked about this issue at least 11 times in the House.
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: The amendment put forward by Deputy Bruton rightly seeks to throw light on this extremely murky area of activity by the Government. I urge the Minister of State to make a statement as to how the events which have been unfolding continuously since last January in regard to a number of such projects relate to this Bill and the proposals put forward by Deputy Bruton. It is a completely...
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: I think he was upset before.
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: The Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, must have been even more under the weather than the Minister.
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: We thought it was an Alan Clarke moment.
- Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)
Joan Burton: Will the Minister of State elaborate further? I am confused by his explanation.