Results 8,001-8,020 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----in Hollyhill. I know the Ministers of State, Deputies Kathleen Lynch and Dara Murphy, will be very pleased about that.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: In the same way that Deputy Kelleher probably has a very positive relationship at local level with those Ministers of State from this Government-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I am sure he does welcome the Apple announcement. It is a great announcement for the northside of Cork.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Kelleher threw out a general-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----remark-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: ----- about the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Government is doing what it promised to do, which is to restore the economy-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and get people back to work. That is the number one job of the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: By the way, this year in the HSE we are employing, overall, about an extra 4,000 people-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----which is the first significant recruitment that has happened. My vision of the health service and the Labour Party's vision of the health service is of-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----a publicly funded, well-run health service.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Bearing in mind, as well-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----the long not-for-profit voluntary health service tradition that also exists in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I do not know whether Fianna Fáil wants to see the back of that, but the Labour Party does not want to see the back of the huge contribution the voluntary sector-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and the not-for-profit sector has made to the development of health services in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: That is a very important role. I do not know whether Fianna Fáil is saying it is going to shut down all of that, but again I want to say, and I heard Deputy Kelleher refer to chartered accountants-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I have to confess that I am originally a chartered accountant myself and all I can say is that, like lots of other professions, chartered accountants have a wide range of views on different issues. The Minister was speaking-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and I think it is to be welcomed. He was speaking in a broad way-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: He was not talking about Government policy.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: He was talking about his own thoughts and views on how the health service should develop.