Results 33,621-33,640 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Industrial Action by Public Service Unions: Statements (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: I was not talking about tax. I was talking about top level pay.
- Industrial Action by Public Service Unions: Statements (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It has dropped 2% since 2001.
- Industrial Action by Public Service Unions: Statements (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The former Taoiseach promised to halve it at the last general election.
- Industrial Action by Public Service Unions: Statements (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Anglo Irish Bank cost us â¬4 billion.
- Industrial Action by Public Service Unions: Statements (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It is in the â¬26 billion.
- Industrial Action by Public Service Unions: Statements (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister reduced â¬26 million to â¬22 million.
- Industrial Action by Public Service Unions: Statements (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: What about the â¬3 billion from the NPRF?
- Order of Business (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: And come back to the strike.
- Industrial Action by Public Service Unions: Statements (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: I wish to share time with Deputy Gilmore. Ireland is at its best when its people come together as a community and society. The response to the disastrous floods is a reminder of the community spirit, meitheal and can-do approach that serves our country best. Firemen, soldiers, the voluntary sector, Red Cross, Civil Defence and private sector are all working together to serve the country....
- Social and Affordable Housing. (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 50: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of units acquired under the leasing initiative in each local authority; the size of these units; the cost per unit; the duration of lease agreements; the number of agreements containing a break clause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42929/09]
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It is a national emergency.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: We have been advised that the report examining the salaries of top people in the public service, which includes Ministers, Ministers of State, senior civil servants and the heads of public bodies was received, probably three weeks ago, by the Minister for Finance. Yesterday, in the finance committee when Professor McCarthy and the members of an bord snip nua were present, the deputy...
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: This is very pertinent to the work of Government. This is a report which has been received by Government. Ministers are paying themselves â¬240,000 a year and asking civil servants who are bringing up three and four children-----
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: ------on â¬40,000 a year to take cuts. Will this report be published and laid in the Oireachtas Library?
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: I am sorry, it is not. That has been the practice as regards the two previous reports on top persons' salaries. If we do not want to return to strikes, as this Government appears to want, badly paid civil servants are being provoked by not releasing this information.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Will the Minister arrange to have the report placed in the Oireachtas Library? The Minister for Finance promised this but has not yet done so. Where is it?
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Where is the report? Members were told yesterday-----
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: No, that is not adequate.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: This is an appropriate matter to raise on the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (19 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It is a report on which the Minister has made a statement in the House.