Results 7,761-7,780 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Second, we have NAMA committed to building a significant number of affordable and social housing, which has already started. Third, we have the recent announcement of the further investment being provided in respect of a further 1,500 units by the Strategic Investment Fund. All of this means we have under way the biggest housing programme ever undertaken in Ireland
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I understand and I share Sinn Féin's desire to see houses being built, both affordable houses and houses for social housing and for rent, throughout the country. That is a common view shared by everybody in the House. That is what we are actually doing. I was present this week at a very nice handing-over ceremony in my constituency, where the first set of new houses will be handed...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Forty-four.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Another seven houses will be handed over after Christmas.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: What I think is unfair on Irish families is that five years ago yesterday Fianna Fáil brought the troika into Ireland-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and delivered desperate circumstances to many families across the country.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I say to Deputy Barry Cowen-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I agree with Deputy Barry Cowen that it has been a very difficult and long road for many Irish families. Those families who bought in the year or two before the crash generally had the benefit of tracker mortgages. In terms of what happened to the banks-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----as we know, the banks were basically-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: They were broken by the failure of the former Taoiseach and his Minister for Finance to take any action to safeguard them.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I said-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: When I appeared before the banking inquiry, I laid out what I had said and did. I gave very good advice to people. It is in everybody's interests that we have banks that are working.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Barry Cowen spoke about people moving their mortgages from one bank to another, but what he did not address - I do not know if he is familiar with this - was the fact that for a number of years many banks offered customers deals with improved interest rates. I do not know whether the Deputy is recommending that people should consider or take these deals-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: They are advertised by all of the banks, particularly the two larger banking institutions where various deals have been negotiated. I am sure at a constituency level the Deputy must have dealt with people who have been exploring these deals and seeking advice on them. For many, it may not be the interest rate reduction to the level the Deputy is talking about, but many of the offerings...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Furthermore, as Deputy Barry Cowen knows, where people have issues and cannot cope with their mortgage repayments, we have a series of structures which we established-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----including the Insolvency Service of Ireland and so on. However, I assume Deputy Barry Cowen is talking about people who are paying their mortgage but want a better deal on the interest rate charged.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy's suggestion is that they switch mortgage provider. As he pointed out correctly, not many people have availed of mortgage switching-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----but it is important that people seek better deals which have been and are available from a number of banks in changing terms over a period of years.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: No.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Disability Allowance is a weekly allowance for people with a disability aged between 16 and 66. The disability must be expected to last for at least one year. The person concerned must pass a medical exam, a means test and be habitually resident in Ireland to get the allowance. No application for disability allowance has been received in my department from the person concerned to date....