Results 27,521-27,540 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I am happy to tell Deputy Ellis about the amount of money being spent. Maybe the Deputy will go out and tell some of the people-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: ------he knows in community employment the amount of money being spent overall on employment support measures.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: No.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: The amount of money being spent on employment support measures is being increased-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: -----by â¬95 million.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: The overall level of spending on employment supports is being increased by â¬95 million.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I am happy to say-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: Yes.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: The Minister, Deputy Howlin, has provided an extra â¬20 million for an activation fund increase as well as â¬4.2 million in regard to training fund, but what we require is a review-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: -----and community employment schemes should not be threatened-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: No.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: There will be a review.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: No, there has not. There will be a review.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: Are the Deputies all in favour of it now?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I want to comment briefly on what Deputies said. When I took office, there were to be cuts of well over â¬800 million, as laid out by Fianna Fáil, in social welfare provisions.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: Through detailed consideration I reduced those cuts to â¬475 million. I regret, like everybody else in the House, that there must be any cut in social welfare. Unfortunately, we were left in an EU-IMF structural adjustment programme and we must make expenditure reductions as well as general tax increases. They are the terms and conditions of the programme Ireland is in until we can get...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I am just replying to the Deputies.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: For the first time in three years there has been no reduction in the primary rates of payment.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: The title of this Social Welfare Bill is entirely appropriate. The third element of the Bill deals with changes to refunds to employers for redundancy payments. In the past number of years this country has spent over â¬1 billion paying employers redundancy rebates. We have paid very large multinationals â¬12 million here and there, for example, with â¬13 million or â¬14 million going...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: Recently, TalkTalk made employees redundant at very short notice and the taxpayers will pay 60% of its statutory redundancy payments. Will the Deputies think about that? No other European country subsidises employers to make people redundant. We are leaving a subsidy of 15% in place. We are in terrible economic difficulty.