Results 7,201-7,220 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: A bar room brawler. You are a disgrace.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: I remember it well.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: I opposed the war in Iraq and continue to seek, in so far as it is possible, a solution to the dreadful violence, in particular right across the Arab countries, the Middle East and Syria. My record relating to peace making, peace promotion and the ending of war is very clear and on a series of public records, including here. I worked in Africa and in the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: We restated our neutrality as recently as in the White Paper on Defence. As the Deputy well knows, we are committed to a process of triple-lock with any decisions that involve our troops, who serve with distinction in peace making and conflict prevention right around the world. That is the record of the Government and the Deputy is seeking to make allegations that do not stand up.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: I stand over my record on promoting peace and peace making.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: If the Deputy is suggesting there has been a policy change on my part, he is entirely wrong. It is important that all Deputies on all sides of the House should use their good offices to seek to make peace in Syria and Iraq as soon as possible in order that the people fleeing those war zones may return, as they wish, to their homes and begin to rebuild their lives.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: As we come close to Christmas, it is an incredibly important task facing everyone who is involved with politics at this time.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy's condescending and patronising remarks-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy failed to recognise-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: Are you able to keep them under control, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: Notwithstanding the Deputy's remarks about Christmas being the season of goodwill, which I presume were thrown into the comments in order to make a joke of people wanting to have a happy Christmas and season of goodwill-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputies are so focused on aggression.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: What is their policy for the health service?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: Their policy for the health service-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: It is not. There are no costs in it at all.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: That document has no costings in it at all.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: It has no mechanism for paying.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: Let me conclude on this.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: One of Sinn Féin's proposals, in a position where we are seeking to recruit hospital consultants, is to slash their wages.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)
Joan Burton: In how many extra hospital consultants-----