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Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: We were able to stand aside from that as a country for a considerable period, but not any more. If Deputy Murphy would send us the details of the queries-----

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: -----in respect of the company with which she has a concern, we will be happy to assist her, if that is possible.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 15, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2016, back from committee; No. 16, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Companies Act 2014 (Section 1313) Regulations 2016, back from committee; No. 17, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Health and...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: -----by one point throughout the country. This might not matter to the Deputy but it matters an awful to families with children.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: We have also rolled out medical cards to children aged under six-----

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: -----and to people aged over 70. If returned to government, we will do this for all children under 18 over a five-year period, and roll it out to older people as resources permit. On Anglo Irish Bank and the other banking matters, if we took Fianna Fáil's proposal and its agreement with the troika, last year would have seen Ireland pay €11 billion in interest costs. We...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: -----at much lower interest rates, which is, by the way, what I recommended in opposition as the Labour Party spokesperson on finance.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: The actual interest costs in 2015 were below €7 billion. In other words, what was planned by Fianna Fáil to be a charge of €11 billion-----

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: -----actually came in at below €7 billion.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: In the scheme of things we now have a dynamic recovery in the economy, but Sinn Féin lives in an economic bubble of its own in which inconvenient facts do not matter. It has no jobs plan for getting the country back to work.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: It has no plan for investment in the country-----

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: -----and it has no plan for families to get a better deal for taxation.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: It proposes to raise taxes on ordinary families.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: It proposes to have an economy which stalls and which does not emphasise work and prosperity for businesses and families. Its economic platform is an empty bubble.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: My understanding of the SUSI development, which is the online system for students to get college grants, is the contract was actually awarded to the City of Dublin VEC, which subsequently became the City of Dublin Education and Training Board. It made the arrangements on how what was a new and very ambitious computer-based application system would be delivered. As the Deputy knows,...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: What the people believe is that there are 135,000 more people at work now. After the disastrous bank guarantee, a small footnote in history is that the Deputies opposite ran down the steps in this Chamber to vote for it, and they voted for it in the Seanad. That is only a footnote in history, and we know they have parted from that.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: I think Deputy Finian McGrath voted for it as well.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: What voters are aware of now is that Ireland is in a dynamic recovery mode. What really counts, and what voters have to decide on, is whether we can seize the moment to build on the recovery so far in order that it extends out to every family, individual and community throughout the country.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: It starts with people going back to work. Already, of the 330,000 jobs lost-----

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: -----after the disastrous bank guarantee that Sinn Féin voted for-----