Results 33,161-33,180 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Whistleblowers Protection Bill 2010: First Stage (28 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: The Tánaiste indicated on the Order of Business that the Minister was talking to someone. Has the Minister brought an appointment to the Cabinet? Will he announce it to the House? Two weeks have passed.

Whistleblowers Protection Bill 2010: First Stage (28 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: Two weeks have passed and the inquiry is supposed to be concluded by the end of May.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: It is not only Fianna Fáil and the Government that are falling apart.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: Has the Tánaiste met any of them recently?

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: Has the Tánaiste had an opportunity to read and examine the Shipsey report in regard to DCC, Fyffes, shares, insider trading and so on? Does the Government intend to provide time to debate that report in this House? I ask this in the context of this report cutting to the heart of matters relating to business in this State, a small country where all of the insiders appear to know each other...

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: -----which inquiry centres on six to ten institutions all of which know each other.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: The Ceann Comhairle allowed my esteemed colleague to speak for a long time.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: The Ceann Comhairle should accord the same quality of esteem to female Members of the Labour Party-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: -----who indicate early in the proceedings their desire to speak. We want equality of esteem.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: I wish to raise a serious issue with the Tánaiste, namely, whether she has had time to read the Shipsey report or be briefed in full on it, whether the Government intends to provide for a debate on the matter in this House and what lessons will be learned from the Shipsey report that are pertinent to the most important inquiry held in this country-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: -----namely, the series of inquiries into the banking crisis.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: This is a perfectly appropriate time to raise the matter. I am totally in order in raising it.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: It is an inquiry which is a matter which comes-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: It is a commission of inquiry ordered by Government. I am asking if the Tánaiste has yet had time to read or be briefed on the Shipsey report and if the Government is proposing to provide time for a debate on the issue in this House. I am perfectly in order in asking that.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: I am perfectly in order in asking that question.

Civil Partnership Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: I wish to recall for the House that Deputy Seán Power was one of those who supported a Bill for the decriminalisation of homosexuality, as it was then described, which was introduced to the Dáil by the then Minister for Justice, Mrs. Máire Geoghegan Quinn, as part of an agreement for Government between Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party. He supported it at a time when the issue was much...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: The employment rate is falling.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: That is because of the hard work of people like me.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: Indicatively, what does that mean? Is this reality we are discussing?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2010)

Joan Burton: The Tánaiste should speak up and answer the question.