Results 17,381-17,400 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: With regard to the Labour Party, I do not know about the relevance of James Connolly-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: -----to the speakers; I suspect they owe more to people such as Leon Trotsky than they owe to Connolly. At the time of the last election, the Labour Party went to the people and asked for a mandate - as did the members of the Fine Gael Party - to put this country straight, recover its economic independence and sovereignty and make changes. That is what the Labour Party signed up to do and...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: Does everybody in Sinn Féin get up in the morning and smile-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: Politics is about the art of argument, principle, having policies and resolving-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: -----and bringing people together.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: The Government is here to do a job on behalf of the people. The people elected the Government to do that.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: As a consequence of the joint work of Deputy Reilly, as the Minister for Health-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: -----and Deputy Shortall as Minister of State for GP care, we have a considerable set of achievements. We have the legislation on the A list of the Government's agenda in regard to primary care that will be taken shortly.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputies should listen.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: I will conclude on this point. We have now a pipeline of projects in regard to health care centres-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: -----which will transform the face of primary care here.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: We must remember that at the end of the day, and I believe Fianna Fáil shares this view, we will make better use of our health services-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: -----if we have more people treated at the primary level. The former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, and the Minister, Deputy Reilly, share that view, as does the rest of this Government.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: Let me make it clear, as I have done on many occasions, that everybody in the Government has confidence in every other Minister.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: I have confidence in the Minister, Deputy Reilly. I have confidence in every member of the Government. I have a mandate from the people as a consequence of the last general election to implement the programme for Government.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: In terms of the programme for Government, Members should bear in mind that we inherited a difficult situation in health which even the Deputies opposite acknowledge. We are dealing with that and at the end of this process we will have a set of 20 primary care centres throughout this country which will inform the experience of patients-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: -----in terms of how to access modern medicine and modern facilities in their own location.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: That is an enormous achievement, and we will do that for the people. We have a vision in regard to health and universal health insurance that will put us on a par with other European countries where we will develop a unified health service that will provide for all our people, regardless of their income.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: That is the objective of this Government.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Joan Burton: I appreciate Deputy McDonald's interest in country and western but I am no Tammy Wynette and I do not think she is either in relation to-----