Results 7,981-8,000 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am informed that the establishment of a national patient safety office in the Department of Health will not require specific legislation. I believe the Minister for Health was on the radio this morning.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: As I understand it, work is under way as we speak.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Happily, significant numbers of cases are being settled, and the Courts Service has been extremely caring towards most of the families coming before the courts and is acutely sensitive to the stress and worry families are under.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Hundreds of thousands of mortgage holders are paying their mortgages, and as we recover and more people return to work, more people are reaching settlements with their lenders.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I thank the Deputy. I appreciate what she said regarding the importance of the services that CE schemes deliver throughout the country. There are more than 1,000 CE schemes and more than 22,000 people participate in schemes. They make an enormous contribution to their local communities and provide a range of services, including helping with services for older and retired people,...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: While I appreciate these are small amounts, it has been the first significant improvement. As well as emphasising improvements for older and retired people over 66, I have made a point of ensuring all participants in any schemes will receive an increase in their total social welfare payments from 1 January.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy refers to particular schemes that are involved with the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Health. After I became Minister, I provided for 1,000 ring-fenced places in schemes which cater for and assist people who are in rehabilitation from drugs. These places continue to exist. Over recent years as demand for such services has spread out more widely...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: First, to go back to the three independent experts who are writing articles regularly and following the details of what happens in different courts around the country, the title of a recent article was, "Inside the property repossession courts, where only one in five borrowers turn up". If Deputy McDonald is interested in a solution for borrowers that helps them away from the dreadful worry...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am sitting beside the Minister of State in the Department of Social Protection, who - many of the Deputies here will be familiar with this at local level in their constituencies - on 1 October last, with the Money Advice and Budgeting Service funded by my Department, initiated a mentoring system so that anyone who goes to court can have assistance in the court.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: A question which would be reasonable, if Deputy McDonald put it, is could we move that process to an earlier point.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Could we move that process back without having to go to court at all? The answer is "Yes"-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----if we can get the borrowers who, for a variety of reasons, including enormous worry and stress about debt, will not do so-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----to engage with the lender. One cannot get a settlement for those involved unless one can get both lender and borrower to sit down together and work it out.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In working it out, deals are being made between banks and borrowers that are giving people a variety of arrangements-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----which will allow them to hold their family home and which will ease the burden of debt.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: For anyone who is experiencing difficulties with debt-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----I plead with them either to go to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, to go to their local banks or whoever loaned them the money and seek to arrive at an agreement where they can have a negotiated settlement of the debt-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and they can then stay in their own home. Keeping people in their homes has been the cornerstone of the Government's policy from day one.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Here is the man himself.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I forgot to say earlier, in the context of this Government, I want to congratulate in particular the people in Deputy Kelleher's constituency on the announcement by Apple yesterday of 1,000 extra jobs in the constituency-----