Results 6,881-6,900 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: The Deputy also asked about the gambling Bill. Like many people in Ireland, I enjoy racing. I agree that there are numbers of people with gambling problems and that there are serious newer forms of social media-based gambling. However, the gambling legislation referred to by the Deputy is unlikely to come before the House in the near or short term.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: I was in the Deputy's part of County Laois recently with my colleague, Senator Whelan. I know that many people have concerns about wind energy issues. Officials in the Departments of the Environment, Community and Local Government and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources are working with great dedication on the development of appropriate guidelines.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: As the Deputy knows, we have also had discussions on the potential for using currently unused boglands and, on a modest scale and in accordance with good planning advice and guidelines, using upland areas where Coillte may have forestry. We want to see wind providing a significant amount of carbon-free or carbon-reduced energy to Ireland. I think Sinn Féin shares that objective....
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: I have had a very long-standing interest in Moore Street and have had the privilege of being in Nos. 14, 15, 16 and 17 Moore Street. I have also had the opportunity to look very closely at the plans proposed by the various historical experts and public bodies which will undertake the work. While not everybody agrees with this, the proposals rank alongside what I have seen done in similar...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: There is nothing wrong with people in the north side of Dublin wanting to shop in the vicinity of the GPO. I have done it all my life, and it is one of the great pleasures of being around the GPO and being in Henry Street and the surrounding area.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: We need a plan which will reinstate the fabric, give the experience to people who visit and make us all proud. It means the strictest planning guidelines must be adopted on the whole area, which includes much of the city centre between the canals. Dublin City Council has an extraordinarily serious responsibility in this. I hope all the bodies can agree, and we should not take cheap shots...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: Everybody has shopped there for decades and generations.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: My colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, dealt with the matter yesterday during Question Time. The Deputy might care to examine the very detailed responses. There are just under 400 community services programme, CSP, sponsored and supported companies throughout the country and more than 60% of them pay more than the minimum wage. Yesterday, the Minister of State, Deputy...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: He also said we will deal case by case over the coming weeks with CSPs which are affected. Many of the organisations raise funds through various services they provide and receive income streams from other Departments and users of the services. We will deal with it case by case over the next few weeks. I am very confident that what is a very progressive move to increase the minimum wage by...
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: It is listed for publication in the next few weeks.
- Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: Two subjects that are not on the list will definitely arise before the end of the Dáil term. One is the proposal to choose the Ceann Comhairle by way of a secret election, for which room must be provided. 1 o’clock Second, following on from the discussions on flooding we have had since the Dáil came back, certain matters relating to insurance and the regulatory framework...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: The consequence is that tax revenues, PRSI and USC have grown very significantly. In a balanced budget there has to be scope for some tax reductions. Deputy Donnelly stated earlier that there should have been no reduction in USC. We gave a reduction in USC to benefit the lowest paid at work in Irish society-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----so as to ensure that work always pays and we then provided further relief, in terms of reducing the USC rate of 7% to 5.5% for individuals earning between €25,000 and €70,000, and it was capped at that point so that very high earners only got the same benefit as an earner on €70,000.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: Let me tell the Deputy about Ireland's current capacity to borrow. Ireland ended up inviting the men in suits from the Merrion Hotel across the road here to take control of the country's finances-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----because nobody would lend to us.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: Nobody would lend to us.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: Last week - Deputy Donnelly follows these matters and I am sure he has read it - the NTMA sold €3 billion of Irish bonds at a rate very slightly above 0.1%-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----just above the German rate. We could have sold bonds-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: -----at three times that value such was the demand.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jan 2016)
Joan Burton: That is the difference between now and when the country lost its economic sovereignty. Of course, there are matters we must fix. I have just stated we have an ambitious target to reduce the debt even further this year.