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- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to come back to the House next Wednesday evening, if this is in order, because I will then be able to have detailed replies on specific issues Members may wish to raise. Otherwise, my responses today would be very general. Now that I see Professor Mirrlees in the Visitors Gallery, I would like to say that in Ireland social welfare plays an enormous stimulus role in terms of demand....
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: We would like support for more.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: Employers pay the first 26 weeks of sick leave in the North. What would the employers in question do then?
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: My apologies, the figure in the North is 28 weeks.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: I will launch that in person.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to come back to the House next Wednesday evening, if this is in order, because I will then be able to have detailed replies on specific issues Members may wish to raise. Otherwise, my responses today would be very general. Now that I see Professor Mirrlees in the Visitors Gallery, I would like to say that in Ireland social welfare plays an enormous stimulus role in terms of demand....
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: We would like support for more.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: Employers pay the first 26 weeks of sick leave in the North. What would the employers in question do then?
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: My apologies, the figure in the North is 28 weeks.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: I will launch that in person.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to come back to the House next Wednesday evening, if this is in order, because I will then be able to have detailed replies on specific issues Members may wish to raise. Otherwise, my responses today would be very general. Now that I see Professor Mirrlees in the Visitors Gallery, I would like to say that in Ireland social welfare plays an enormous stimulus role in terms of demand....
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: We would like support for more.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: Employers pay the first 26 weeks of sick leave in the North. What would the employers in question do then?
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: My apologies, the figure in the North is 28 weeks.
- Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: I will launch that in person.
- Statutory Sick Pay: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: Before I refer to the issues directly associated with statutory sick pay, I am keen to emphasise in the clearest possible terms that the Government is totally committed to the role the 200,000 small and medium sized enterprises play in the Irish economy, employing more than 650,000 people. This point was also outlined by the Minister of State, Deputy Perry. These enterprises contribute some...
- Statutory Sick Pay: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: That represents an increase of one third. That is very harsh.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Budget 2013 (23 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 301, 324 and 367 together. The Revised Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure in 2012 of nearly €2.08 billion on child benefit or 10.1% of total expenditure, and nearly €6.26 billion on pensions or 30.4% of total expenditure. The Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2012 – 2014 published by Government last December provides...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services (23 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 302, 348 and 349 together. The inter-Departmental Group (IDG) on school-age child care, chaired by the Department of Social Protection (DSP) and comprising of representatives from both the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) – which is the lead Department in relation to child care policy and provision- and the Department of Education...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services (23 Oct 2012)
Joan Burton: I recently visited Sweden to study and discuss a number of issues of interest to me. I am particularly interested in the childcare system that Sweden has put in place and I very much wanted the opportunity to examine the system to establish what Ireland could learn from that model. The school I visited is a Reggio Emilia-inspired pre-school on the suburbs of Stockholm. The Reggio Emilia...