Results 15,301-15,320 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: It is â¬425 and is used for a number of purposes.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Someone is allowed to earn â¬425 per week. That is the cut-off point.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Yes. I will get the Deputy a total statement of how this is calculated. It would be wrong to try to carry out a calculation without providing a complete worked example.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I will ask my officials to use a sample of people.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: In general. I do not want to say anything absolutely.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy must take up that matter with his predecessors, who left a complex system.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil built up a complex system.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Actually, he did. I will read it into the record.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I will read it all into the record.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy made enough jibes about women yesterday. He should withdraw that and apologise.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: He should apologise to the House. He is good at the jibes.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: You have a very low opinion of women based on your comments yesterday.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Why do you not withdraw it?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Yes, you did.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I will not repeat what you said.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should have the guts to withdraw it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: It is on the record.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: He should withdraw it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I hope the Deputy has an opportunity to look at his comments from yesterday and that he has the courage to withdraw and regret introducing that kind of language regarding what I understand refers to people who are lone parents. I understand his language comes from the American right wing. In many cases he cited the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands earlier, so perhaps extreme left meets...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: He should not use that kind of language in this House in reference to any women and he should withdraw it.