Results 35,561-35,580 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: When will we receive the expenditure profiles?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: It is in order. How are we supposed to do our business——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: ——when the Government is keeping the information to itself?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Can we receive the information?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: What Department will introduce it?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: What about the house tax?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Will it be introduced by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: No wonder she has not got a clue.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Can the Taoiseach supply the table?

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: It is not allowable.

Allocation of Time: Motion (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: On behalf of the Labour Party I want to object in particular to the arrangements which provide a mere ten minutes for the Taoiseach to explain to the country what people have been waiting to hear about not only for the past three weeks but for the past four months, since everything went wrong with the bank guarantee scheme. People are waiting to listen. If the Taoiseach thinks he can...

Allocation of Time: Motion (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: If the Taoiseach can deal with all of these issues in ten minutes, he is a better man than most of us gave him credit for until now. Ten minutes is grossly inadequate. We are happy to make any change of arrangements in the schedule to allow the Taoiseach make a full statement. We do not want a drip feed of information. Today, the Taoiseach will give us ten minutes of whatever and tomorrow...

Allocation of Time: Motion (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: People who are waiting to understand what the Government proposes to do are not being dealt with fairly.

Regulatory Reform. (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: In the context of the Taoiseach's reference to parliamentary committees, the area of most interest to people relates to regulation of banks. There is a perceived absolute failure of the banks to, for example, highlight the shocking failure to find out about the loans advanced to Mr. Seán FitzPatrick, the former managing director and chairman of Anglo Irish Bank. The Taoiseach spoke about...

RAPID Programme. (29 Jan 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding he will allocate to the RAPID areas for 2009; if there will be a reduction in funding for these areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2574/09]

The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)

Joan Burton: Those paying that tax are public servants, by and large, married to other public servants. We have had that discussion previously.

The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)

Joan Burton: Will the tax exiles pay tax?

The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)

Joan Burton: Will the tax exiles——

The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)

Joan Burton: ——in Fianna Fáil pay tax?

The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)

Joan Burton: Would the Fianna Fáil tax exiles pay tax?