Results 33,201-33,220 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: Not even the tooth fairy has promised as much on management companies as has the Government.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: We will have to given we cannot get a response on management companies.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: We know that.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: People in managed estates have no water.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: No, no fire.
- Residential Institutions. (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: The issue of women who were committed to Magdalene laundries is one of the last unresolved issues of the hidden Ireland of institutions, religious orders and the State so eloquently set out in the Ryan report and a whole series of articles, books, films, memoirs and television programmes. Just before Christmas last year, the Justice for Magdalene group met senior officials in the Department...
- Residential Institutions. (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: It would be helpful were I allowed another Adjournment from the Department of Education and Science and the Minister of State might speak to his colleagues in that regard.
- Residential Institutions. (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: I appreciate that and thank the Minister of State.
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: Question 34: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he has taken to ensure that he will ratify the Aarhus Convention; if there are outstanding issues on legislation that he must attend to before it can ratify this convention; when he will be in a position to ratify this convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2448/10]
- Written Answers — Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: Question 46: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the expected cost to the Exchequer in 2009 and in 2010 of losses recorded by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority; the extent the DDDA has taken on or is expected to take on borrowing commitments on foot of its losses; if he will take the necessary steps to give authority to the Comptroller and Auditor...
- Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the position of files and records held by Government Departments in respect of women and young girls who were routinely committed by order of the courts and other mechanisms to institutions and homes run by religious orders (details supplied); if these files will be released; and the steps...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: He said he would take on the gangs.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: I ask the Chief Whip to make arrangements for departmental officials to brief interested Deputies.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: We in the Labour Party welcome the provision of time to debate what has happened in Haiti. A disaster of this magnitude can only be dealt with by armies and professional aid agencies. When the genocide in Rwanda occurred, I chaired the European Council of Ministers. It is unfortunate that neither the United Nations nor other multilateral or international bodies have learned much about...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: In the matter of secondary legislation, what is the position regarding the commencement order for the emergency legislation providing for reductions in civil and public service pay? The leader of the Labour Party, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, raised this matter with the Taoiseach yesterday. We cannot find a commencement order in Iris Oifigiúil or the Oireachtas Library. The Taoiseach promised...
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: -----when the Labour Party raised this issue in the debate on the legislation, that the Government amendment would mean the measure would not apply to the wide range of grant aided and voluntary organisations.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: What is the status of the HSE circular which has been circulated to Barnardos and other voluntary organisations telling them they must cut staff wages? Some of those working in these organisations are paid very little. Where is the commencement order for the legislation?
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: Has the commencement order been lost in the post? Was it delayed by frost and snow on the roads?
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: This is important legislation.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)
Joan Burton: Will she rummage in the attic to see if she can pull it out? Is it lost in the post?