Results 1,241-1,260 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Written Answers — Public Service Staff: Public Service Staff (13 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department's approval was sought by the Health Service Executive for the terms and conditions of employment, including pension rights, of the recently resigned deputy chief executive of the Health Service Executive; if his Department's approval was withheld; the reason for such withholding; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (13 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of figures showing that fewer than one in nine civil servants wish to move with their current jobs under the Government's decentralisation programme, he has plans to review or adjust the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38984/05]
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (13 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Finance the latest information available from the central applications facility in respect of applications from civil servants and other public servants currently located in Dublin who wish to transfer to new locations outside of Dublin under the Government's decentralisation programme; the way in which this compares with the Government target of 10,300;...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (14 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland supports, and will advocate the European Union to support, the retention and expansion of the office of the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bogota, Colombia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39275/05]
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (14 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will respond to representations made to him or his Department regarding the justice and peace law proposed in Colombia and the fears that it will confer impunity on persons accused of crimes against humanity and may confer a form of legitimacy on persons who have expropriated land and property illegally. [39276/05]
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (14 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost of the closure of APSO, including consultancies and reviews undertaken prior to its closure, and settlements to retiring staff; the number of staff who were absorbed into the Department of Foreign Affairs and the cost of their salaries on an annual basis from the closure, for each year to date in 2005; and the cost of related...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (14 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons who were placed in overseas placements by APSO for each year from 1997 to date in 2005 of its closure; the categories of such placement, long-term, short-term and so on; the type of work undertaken, for example, full-time, part-time, mentoring and so on; and the cost and the agency operation cost. [39330/05]
- Development Banks Bill 2005: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Now that the Government has reinstated the promise that Ireland would reach the 0.7% target, it is time that the policy drift in our overseas development aid programme, the spending of money by Development Cooperation Ireland and the positions assumed by the Department of Finance on the spending of taxpayers' money on development were examined. My views on the objectives of the Ireland aid...
- Development Banks Bill 2005: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State saying that privatisation of water is successful?
- Development Banks Bill 2005: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: I am talking about the privatisation of key public services in developing countries, such as sewerage and water services, which are absolutely essential to the maintenance of the life of the poorest people.
- Development Banks Bill 2005: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: It is valuable that the Minister of State should state that the UK privatisation model in a developed country shouldââ
- Development Banks Bill 2005: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: The Minister of State has just stated that he approved of the model of privatisation of water in the UK.
- Development Banks Bill 2005: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: The privatisation of water and sewerage in desperately poor Third World countries where so many children die before reaching their second birthday has been almost an unmitigated disaster. That is the conclusion not just of labour parties around the world but many of the Minister of State's colleagues in right wing parties who have looked at conditions in such countries. I suggest the Minister...
- Adult Education. (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will respond to the sense of betrayal felt by the TUI and its members who work in the further education sector at the failure to allocate funding in the Estimates and budget 2006 to implement the McIver report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39651/05]
- Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (15 Dec 2005)
Joan Burton: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the alarming statistics published by the Education Welfare Board indicating that approximately 84,000 children up to the age of 16 miss at least 20 days of schooling per year; if the board will be adequately funded to employ enough education welfare officers to address the wide scale problem of absenteeism from school;...
- Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: The next thing we will be told is that it will be in by the summer.
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: On a point of order.
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: Would it be in order to provide time to debate this issue? This is a major error in the accounts of the Department of Health and Childrenââ
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: ââand of the new Accounting Officer. In the course of the budgetary process, we were given figures that indicated a total capital carryover for the Government of â¬285 million under the capital carryover rules. Before the end of the year, that had increased to â¬343 million. I asked the Department about this vast increase. We are now told there is a further error in the Estimates of...
- Personal Explanation by Minister. (25 Jan 2006)
Joan Burton: This may well throw light on the freedom of information disclosures before Christmas of the correspondence from Professor Drumm about his inability to spend more current account money in regard to staff in the Health Service Executive. This requires a major statement of explanation. It is not good enough for the Minister to leave it until the end of February, when the Revised Estimates for...