Results 7,741-7,760 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: What we have done in government is that we have-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----nearly 2 million people at work, including many of the people-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy does not want to hear it.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is obviously not interested in any answers.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Listen, Barry, anger is not a policy.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Anger is not a policy and if Deputy Cowen is interested rather than trying to make some hay and cheap political capital out of people in mortgage difficulties, he should actually address the issue.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: There are enough histrionics-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----from Deputy Cowen now to fill the Abbey Theatre any night.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: So he should just lay off. His colleague beside him has said-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----Fianna Fáil is taking the ball and walking off the pitch. It will not be involved in government, so what are we to believe about any contribution Fianna Fáil Deputies try to make?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: What are we supposed to believe?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: If the Deputy is gracious enough to give me the opportunity to address it, of course I will address it.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Eventually, after the Deputy's histrionics.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Will the Deputy lay off the histrionics?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: If he wants an answer, he just has to shut up for a while and listen to the answer.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I suppose Sinn Féin could be accused of folding the cards and running back to Westminster on the issue of welfare reform.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: That is what it chose to do. Hopefully from its point of view it will not hear about it until sometime after the elections in different parts of this island. Deputy McDonald has a bit of a cheek to talk about people folding when Sinn Féin Members are the champions of it as they have shown again this week.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The only solution to housing in this country following the huge collapse in building following the difficulties the country had and which now thankfully we are exiting, is to actually build more housing. The heart of the Government's housing proposal is to build more units through a variety of mechanisms. This is under way as we speak in every part of the country. Is it under way as...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Right now throughout the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----there are significant allocations to every local authority to recommence the building of social houses.