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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 May 2019)

Joan Burton: ...? The people of Ireland want to be safe when they take a train or the DART and when their children go out to play or meet friends in a park. Does the Taoiseach understand that people genuinely feel afraid? Drug gangs and cocaine are at their height, such as we have not seen for 30 years, and parents are besieged with drug debt but the Taoiseach has no answer.

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: I thank everyone who contributed to the debate here today: the many who agreed with us and those who were critical or in opposition to our motion. People are feeling a sense of total desperation and shame at present that almost 4,000 children are now homeless. As a society, we do not know what the long-term impact of that will be for those children. What disappoints me most about the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...or well-off. How are they supposed to get a home to rent or buy? The Minister does not seem to recognise this fact. He said that he has no responsibility for individual people. The Government should feel an immense collective responsibility for our Army.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Small and Medium Businesses: Discussion (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...are local enterprise offices. Could a package of information be put together for SMEs but also for the customer because, as a previous speaker said, many people do not make claims because they feel empathy with the business owner and they do not want to make a claim? However, sometimes, because of a lack of attention at the time, it develops into something bigger and then resentment,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Phoenix Park (2 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...fort to be on a par with some of the French forts which people may be familiar with from their holidays. I am a little concerned that the Independent Alliance has a bias against Dublin’s north and west sides, feeling that we are not posh enough for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, who is sitting beside the Minister of State. We value our park and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...them how much they could borrow and so on. There is a context and history to how so many people got into difficulty. Do the witnesses have something additional to offer somebody who already feels precarious because they have been in mortgage difficulty and possibly lost their job? We know from all of the different hearings that the witnesses and ourselves have attended that people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...distress to many people at the moment that the number of homeless children is continually increasing and children now spend a long time in homelessness. One of the reasons people on the committee feel strongly about the Bill is that as this is now growing with the securitisation of an increasing amount of financial assets people who end up having to give up their homes, as a consequence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...Department have any suggestions to offer? The committee would love to hear how we can balance the rights, and reflect and endorse the rights of the individuals whose mortgages are being sold on and who feel even more precarious, as a consequence of reading in the newspaper and knowing from other media, that it is likely these particular funds may well sell on within a timespan of five to...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: ...States at the moment. As in much of the world, the atmosphere means that now is not the time for trade deals. For reasons we all understand, they are viewed with grave suspicion by a lot of people who feel they risk undermining their standard of living and their employment prospects. We were told that the prospect of a trade deal being entered into very rapidly, or within a couple of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: ...We are asking for a reasonable arrangement of availability on the part of the Secretary General. Otherwise, a precedent will be set which will be really bad for democracy where Secretaries Generals would feel empowered to either defer, over a long period of time or even refuse to meet the committees of the Dáil in the exercise of the Accounting Officer functions for which they are...

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: ...that one of the most embarrassing things a Minister for Finance has to do is come to the House to present not just Revised Estimates but revisions to them. I am sure the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, feels it is not his fault. After all, he gave the Minister for Health €600 million from the back of the sofa for current spending. The country is now seriously questioning the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: ...Party when it was in government with the Labour Party. The Fine Gael Party was not a great fan of the Policing Authority but I do not know the Taoiseach's personal views on it. Communities feeling safe and young people who get into trouble with the law being properly dealt with are fundamental to our policing system. However, the Government is considering dissolving the authority...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...of which ordinary people can understand and the members of which they can see and have contact with in their communities. While much of the material in the report is quite positive, I get the feeling from the Taoiseach's statement that he will undo all the work that we did in government on the Policing Authority modelled on what happens in neighbouring jurisdictions and learning from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (18 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...Civil War and other events. As I said, some terrible things happened on both sides. I have a question on what happened in certain parts of the country, including west Cork where there was a strong feeling that Protestants were ultimately forced out of the area. Has the Taoiseach asked the committee of historians to consider how those events will be recalled and analysed in order that we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...including those people whose mortgages were sold over their heads from PTSB to an investment vehicle administered by Pepper Finance with the agreement of the Taoiseach's Minister for Finance, must feel sick at the derisory level of penalties levelled on a former banking executive in the Irish Nationwide Building Society today? That information coincides with a report from the Economic...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the rest of us? Would the answer to that mean these issues should somehow be approached in a different way? Is it implied that people who are of a different ethnicity somehow have less regard, feeling or care where these issues are concerned then do ethnically white Irish people? The Deputies should seriously consider withdrawing this amendment because it is needlessly offensive. To be...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...put their children in orphanages and industrial schools? It took a very long time before this House even addressed those issues. Are we really using that same language tonight? Why? Why do we feel compelled to use it? This is a difficult, personal and private issue. Do not attempt to use this Bill as a mechanism to shame women and to shame and frighten doctors. We have just got...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: We had the news today of the written judgment of the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice. Does the Taoiseach feel it is potentially very beneficial to Ireland and people in the UK who may want a soft Brexit or a rethink in the form of a second referendum? They are matters for the UK Government but they have an enormous influence on us. I want to know what is the Taoiseach's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...groups, there are people who are for neutrality policy and armies which are essentially for domestic defence rather than parts of greater co-operation and structures. Where do the Taoiseach's feelings lie? It is important that, as Taoiseach, he should not be dragged willy-nilly into a European federalist structure which would include the notion of a grand European army. Does the...

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: ...Ireland. Our demand is simply to mind the gap and to ensure equality between men and women. It is important for young people growing up today, whether they are boys or girls in school, that they feel they can aspire to any field of work or any occupation they wish to pursue, and that our public education system and other services will make their aspirations possible to fulfil. That is...