Results 39,981-40,000 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: Did the Minister ever visit the Dublin area and talk to people?

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: The Minister should take a train or a bus and learn about Irish life.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister outline the cost of his public relations adviser?

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: I move: That Dáil Éireann, deploring the shocking waste of taxpayers money highlighted in the recent Prime Time Investigates programme and a number of recent reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General including, among others: —the huge over-run in the cost of the roads programme in the early years of the National Development Programme, which means that the eventual cost will be more...

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: ——is not about any one particular project, although we could go on for hours about one or another of the Minister of State's failed projects. Our motion is concerned with the pattern established and the wholly inadequate Government response to that pattern. All Governments waste resources for one reason or another but this Government has made it into an art form. If there was an Oscar for...

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: The examples of Government waste are too numerous to go into great detail, although my colleagues will refer to many of them, but I want to elaborate on three examples. The medical cards for over 70s scheme was announced to great applause from Government benches in the budget of 2001 and welcomed on all sides of this House. What Deputies did not know, however, was the secretive and ham-fisted...

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: I read out the figures.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: One could get a bus or a train before the Government came into office. Now there is none.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: The Government inherited a good transport infrastructure.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: The Government has not bought a single new bus since it came into office.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: Where?

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: When was the last time the Minister took a bus?

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: When was the last time the Minister was on a train?

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: The majority is just administrative staff.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: What about the waste?

Public Expenditure: Motion. (17 May 2005)

Joan Burton: This is not the case. There has been much waste.

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (12 May 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress of the Government's consideration of the ten year transport investment programme; when a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15552/05]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (12 May 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Transport when he intends to introduce legislative measures to counter the use of mobile phones by drivers in view of the clear safety implications of this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15576/05]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (12 May 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs, further to the economic partnership agreements being negotiated between the EU and the 77 ACP countries, if an effective safeguard mechanism will be put in place for ACP countries to use if faced with a surge of subsidised EU imports; and if the Government will take a position supportive of the ACP countries. [15790/05]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (12 May 2005)

Joan Burton: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs, further to the economic partnership agreements being negotiated between the EU and the 77 ACP countries, his views on whether the EU should take a non-mercantilist approach and not pursue any offensive interests. [15791/05]