Results 38,021-38,040 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: According to the Minister, unless integrated ticketing is introduced, there will not be scope for flexibility within the system, particularly in the greater Dublin region. I do not know how long the integrated ticketing project will take but the different parties to it seem to be locked in mortal combat. CIE and Dublin Bus are proceeding with their own scheme. A sum of â¬40 million has...
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: The Minister must have been surprised to receive several hundred applications from people with very large individual pension funds. I refer to the small self-administered pension funds referred to as being small because they apply to an individual, not because they are small in size. However, hundreds exceeded the Minister's â¬5 million limit. If I recall the figures, he told Members that...
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: From my observation, the Minister and Deputy Boyle are big boys. The Minister does not really get the point. I am sure he is as familiar as anybody else with people's life cycles. If a couple with children are both at work, they benefit from tax reductions of â¬6,000. Saying, in the abstract, that the tax wedge in Ireland is very narrow and so on is correct. Work started on this when...
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: He does not understand it.
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: Not for single income families.
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: The minimum wage is the maximum wage for many people. This is what the Government has done.
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: The Minister's minimum wage has become the maximum for many workers.
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: The unemployment rate was 18% when we entered office.
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: The Government's minimum wage constitutes the maximum for too many families. That is what is wrong with it.
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: I refer to â¬9 an hour.
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 13: In page 21, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: "14.âThe Minister for Finance may by regulations provide that the tax relief for childminding shall be available to persons who have care of children in accordance with conditions prescribed by such regulations, irrespective of the number of such children.". I raised this issue with the Minister on...
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: Yes. I know the Minister was disappointed at the take-up.
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: This measure would improve it.
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: I had asked the Minister to give consideration to the Labour Party amendment in light of the discussion we had.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach is a man. This has to do with women.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: They are continuing.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: I recently provided the details to the Minister with regard to a private estate in my area, and he acknowledged the correspondence.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: The White Paper on overseas development has recently been posted to every citizen in booklet form. One of the goals set out in the White Paper is equality for women as part of the millennium development goals. Is it proposed, in the context of the difficulties Trócaire has been having, to incorporate the White Paperââ
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: The White Paper has been circulated to every house in the country. Will it be incorporated into legislation here?
- Finance Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed). (7 Mar 2007)
Joan Burton: It is appropriate that we should be debating this aspect of Fianna Fáil's budget on the eve of International Women's Day. It is important that the Minister should appreciate that the tax penalty or additional tax that will be paid by married couples where one or other spouse chooses to remain at home and care for children or an elderly relative amounts to â¬6,240. If a married couple...