Results 39,061-39,080 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Leaders' Questions. (29 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: They are sick.

Leaders' Questions. (29 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Why does the Government not provide that accommodation?

Leaders' Questions. (29 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Is the Taoiseach saying——

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (28 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement in respect of the preparation of tax certificates and tax credits statements for widowed people; and if there is a problem with the classification of tax credits for widows being instead only offered with many widows, particularly newly widowed people, being offered tax credits for single people. [11632/06]

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: The Minister for Education and Science announced a review of the 1998 Education Act in regard to the task force on student behaviour. In Dublin West some 200 children will have no primary school place in junior infants in September.

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister review the Education Act to allow the Department of Education and Science to inform schools directly——

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: The Minister is willing to answer. This matter is important to 400 parents whose children——

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: ——in this tiger economy have no primary school place.

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach is willing to answer.

Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: This is a matter of major importance. It relates to a review of the Education Act that the Minister has already publicly promised.

Defence Forces Recruitment. (28 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to figures showing that Ireland's level of strength of women in the Defence Forces at 3% is well behind the 15% average throughout members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the 25% rate in the US military; when he will introduce new measures to encourage female recruitment to the Defence Forces; and if...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the serious concern expressed by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions regarding recent data from the Central Statistics Office, which showed that 43% of employees who worked overtime in 2004 did so without payment; the steps he intends to take to stop such exploitation of workers; and if he...

Job Protection. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a draft report prepared for the National Economic and Social Council by the International Organisation for Migration, which warns of the lack of effective policies and thinking to protect the employment prospects of local workers in a less favourable economic environment; his response to...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: It is getting worse.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social and Family Affairs made repayments a number of years ago.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: This concerns information and truth as well. On Transport 21, I received an answer from the Minister for Transport last night on the location of the new station at Spencer Dock. I discovered from his answer that it is to be located north of Sheriff Street — Spencer Dock is, in fact, on the quay, which is why it is a dock — and that people who will get the privilege of using this will now...

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: Bear with me, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. They will have to walk more than 800 metres to access the pedestrian footbridges to the south city or walk a quarter of a mile to Connolly Station. What is included in the Estimates for this Spencer Dock development? The Opposition, unlike the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, who has an open door——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: We were not invited to this launch but the Minister appeared in a hard hat in the newspaper in some unknown location——

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: ——that we now find out is north of Sheriff Street. The late Deputy Lawlor often upped the addresses of areas so that, rather than perhaps being in Clondalkin, they became Lucan. There will now be a railway station north of Sheriff Street which is to be called Spencer Dock and the docklands.

Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Joan Burton: What Estimate has been provided for the station?