Results 39,881-39,900 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: The judge was precise, unlike the Minister of State who has not got a clue about the matter.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 7: In page 11, between lines 47 and 48, to insert the following: "(2) No disciplinary measure may be taken under this Act against a civil servant who in good faith reports a suspicion of illegality or other wrong-doing to a body or person having a legal function in respect of such illegality or other wrong-doing". This amendment deals with the question of the position of...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State, not for the first time, is a profound disappointment. Does he even know when the Government claimed to accept the notion of a whistleblowers' charter? At the beginning of this Dáil, the Labour Party succeeded in having the Bill reintroduced in the Government's legislative programme but that was the last the House heard of it, which is unfortunate. The Morris tribunal...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: No he did not.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: Was the Minister of State listening at all? He said the exact opposite.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: He said it had been reviewed already.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: Prior to the judge's report.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: Are the gardaí not civil servants?

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: Are gardaí not public servants?

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: The judge stated that needs to be reviewed. The Taoiseach said it has been reviewed already.

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State is allowing an incredible loss of public confidence in our democracy. It is also a terrible waste of money because when wrongdoing in the public service festers, it poisons activity and often results in another tribunal at huge public cost. The unwillingness of the Minister of State's party to accept a reform that exists in most European countries is disappointing. When...

Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: Has the Taoiseach had an opportunity to study the recent comments of the judge who described it as extraordinary that the Government gave a €62 million public asset to——

Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: I have.

Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: This is a €62 million asset.

Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: The Government has promised legislation, namely, the Abbotstown sports campus development authority Bill.

Order of Business. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: If we do not get an answer on this issue we will think the Taoiseach's make-up——

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, line 6, to delete "and Terms of Employment". The Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts deal only with notice and no longer deal with terms of employment. Terms of employment are dealt with in a separate Act, the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994. Therefore, we are seeking to amend the collective citation to delete the misleading reference to...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: I support the amendments proposed by Deputies Bruton and Boyle. It is fortunate the House is taking Report Stage of this Bill in the aftermath of what we now know as a result of the Morris report, the Travers report, the ongoing information which is slowly but surely emerging about the national aquatic centre and the structures adopted to give a €62 million public asset to a company...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: I raise a question I have asked the Minister of State before. The phrase "will and pleasure of the Government" is rather old fashioned. While the Minister of State tells us we are in a brave new world of improved management criteria and reporting to the extent that one would never think our hospitals were in chaos or that people's experience of public transport was so bad, his use of language...

Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joan Burton: As late amendments have just been received, proceedings are quite difficult to follow. The Minister of State has an advantage we do not enjoy.