Results 25,241-25,260 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- 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.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy introduced the terminology.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: He is an adult and chose to use that phraseology.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: He chose to use that phraseology.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. While I may have it wrong, I believe it has been the tradition in this House that if somebody uses seriously wrong language, he or she normally has the politeness to withdraw. It is a clever way of putting-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: May I address the provisions of section 178B?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Legislative changes were introduced in the one-parent family arrangements in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010. These came into effect on 27 April 2011 and reduced the maximum age limit of the youngest child for the receipt of the one-parent family to 14 years. Transitional arrangements were put in place for existing one-parent family customers at the time with the age...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I do not know if the Deputies got them, but I did make arrangements for this.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: To be clear, we gave the Deputies full and detailed copies.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Yes. I understood it had been circulated.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Of course I will make it available to the Deputies. I understood they had it already; I apologise. Alongside the provision of free third level education, in 1995, my then colleague, the Labour Party Minister Niamh Bhreathnach, started the first universal preschool education system in Ireland, which was called Early Start and which was particularly targeted at communities in which there was...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 10: In page 5, line 41, to delete "section 178A(7)" and substitute "section 178C".
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No: 11: In page 6, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following subsection: "(4) The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new sections: 178B.â(1) This section applies to a person whoâ (a) immediately before 27 April 2011 was in receipt of oneparent family payment, and (b) would have continued to receive that paymentâ (i) immediately after 26 April...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: This morning, I had the honour of launching a very important document by the ESRI about families in poverty and children being at risk of poverty in Ireland. It shows what a number of Deputies have referenced, which is that children most at risk of poverty are those in lone parent families. It is not me who is stating this, but a group of researchers and professors of the ESRI, including...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: The relevant age in Finland is four years. In the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand - members will be aware that many Irish people go to visit or live in Australia and New Zealand, some for a year or two - the relevant age is 5 years. In Canada, the relevant age is six years and in the UK and 90 miles north of here, it is seven years. Is the Deputy suggesting that in changing the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: That is why the other countries have that age.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: We have education in this country.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has a problem with one.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: It is Great Britain.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Sorry. Educate me.