Results 6,001-6,020 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: Last week after the Labour Party left office, IBEC strongly refuted the need to change employment law. Does the Government agree with the position taken by the workers or IBEC? This is a simple question. On whose side does the Government stand? After five years of reform to employment and collective bargaining laws inspired by the Labour Party in office, I am horrified to see that the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: -----protecting people in arranged insolvencies, such as that involving Clerys, that appear to be within the framework of common law but manage to turn workers and businesses out onto the street and offer them no protection. The programme for Government is silent on this important issue.
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: Could the Tánaiste tell us about it, please?
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Joan Burton: It is not in the programme for Government.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: However, for Fine Gael to sign up to this fairly tawdry arrangement is an entirely new and unwelcome departure. One hundred years on from the Rising that lit the road to independence-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: -----the people deserve better from the two Civil War parties. They have ended their Civil War politics all right but only to concoct, as I stated, this coalition of convenience that it appears will put citizens' interests last. I stress the Labour Party's vote today is not a personal reflection of the Taoiseach, who is an honourable man and hard-working leader. Over the past five...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: In the future, the Labour Party will look at the issues on a case-by-case basis and when there is merit in supporting them, we will do so. While recovery has not yet been felt by everybody, there has been a huge amount of progress. It is difficult for Fianna Fáil to acknowledge that it left a ruin. There has been a significant amount of recovery, including unemployment figures showing...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: When the Labour Party came in, we inherited a deficit of €2.8 billion.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: In addition, there has been confirmation from the European Commission that Ireland again will record strong growth this year. These all are tangible signs of progress that will translate into new jobs for workers and into things getting that little bit easier for families who have struggled so much since Fianna Fáil's crash of 2008. This makes it all the more worrying now that the new...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: However, we would do the same again because it is only when the country prospers-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: -----and its people prosper that we get to anything that amounts to the vision of those who sacrificed their lives in the Rising.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: As for this coalition, effectively the agreement means the Civil War is over in political terms. However those parties have been afraid to go the whole hog. As I stated, I await the arrival of Deputy Ross and his indication of what has been agreed between the two parties.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: -----for a dedicated pension scheme-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: -----to ensure all workers have supplementary pension provision.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: A Cheann Comhairle, I have not interrupted anybody and I understand-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: -----that people over here are smarting at the indignity of some of the things that they have agreed to, but I did not interrupt them and I do not expect them to interrupt me.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: That roadmap for supplementary pension provision is now ready. It can be implemented by the new Government. Older people and people at work need proper pension provision. We have improved pensions. We brought back the Christmas bonus - while you guys cancelled it - but it is not enough for people to live on an income and supports of roughly €250 a week. We all know that. We have...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: So how come it did not even merit a look at? It is very disappointing if we are ambitious for a fairer and progressive Ireland.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)
Joan Burton: I doubt that the Eight Amendment will now be repealed or even offered and put to the people during the course of this Government's term in office. The coalition of convenience has cynically kicked the issue to touch. The issue is when people will get a right to express their views on a needed change and a needed review of the Constitution. By contrast, if there is a problem that the...