Results 40,481-40,500 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: The United States has experienced a problem like this on a more vast scale but no US President has ever dared to upend so sacred a feature as birth-related citizenship to overcome the effects of small-scale abuse that inevitably happens when we have a liberal law or, as with child benefit in the case of social welfare, universal entitlements. Although there was a debate on changing the law in...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: The argument that was persuasive in Canada and the United States was that the seemingly random "accident of birth" rule was actually a fair, democratic and objective way to determine citizenship, not dependent on race, colour, wealth or the political clout of parents. North American countries have maintained a generous approach to citizenship and have thriving economies. Their approach to...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: Thus children born to non-national parents, unlike any other children born in Ireland, may be denied these rights if the amendment is passed. As Professor William Binchy has written, the effect of the referendum would be to cast a shadow over the protection afforded by the Constitution to the rights of children born in Ireland of foreign parents who have lived in Ireland for a certain period...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: They have dealt with it by working with their French and continental colleagues. I am sure the Minister has access to the detailed report. The Minister has chosen to present to the Irish people this master political stroke of a referendum. I was in Trinity College the other night to chair a debate on the issue. The Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, ought to be a bit concerned and...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: Our young people live in a multicultural and multi-racial society and are not racist. By playing the card of this referendum without proper consultation or procedure, the Minister has chosen a political stroke to deal with something which is problematic and a delicate social issue. When I worked in the Department of Justice, I was told a story by an old staff member, now probably long...
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: Why did the Government ignore it?
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: They were asylum seekers and now they are non-nationals.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: The Minister is changing his argument.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: The Minister referred to these people previously as asylum seekers, but now he says they are non-nationals. They could be from Lithuania.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: Will the Minister take a question?
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: Will the Minister answer a question?
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: The Minister says he has the factsââ
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: I am entitled to ask a question. The Minister said he did not have the facts and now he says he does, but he still has not given them to us. Will he give us the facts? I will give way to the Minister when he answers that question.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: Would the Minister give way?
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: The Minister has cast slurs on Opposition Members because we seek to respect the integrity of our Constitution. The Minister is making it up as he goes along. He is changing his position day by day.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: That is the election story.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: The Minister played the card and he should withdraw the remark.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: He did and he must withdraw his comments.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: The Minister should withdraw his comments.
- Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)
Joan Burton: He must.