Results 8,281-8,300 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: That is probably the most significant development and it has been widely welcomed by the industry. Given that he is raising issues around qualifications for those coming into the industry, the Deputy will be aware that SOLAS and the Department of Education and Skills have agreed with the haulage industry to develop traineeships for new and young people coming into the industry to qualify for...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has not said whether he has approached the competition authority. If this matter is purely one of competition, I would expect the competition authority to be interested in it were it referred by the Deputy and others. I go back to what I said about the budget. There are a lot of young people, as the Deputy knows, who could find very good and well-paid employment in the haulage...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I hope the Deputy would like to see young guys being able to get into the industry.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Yes, but I am talking about young people being able to get into the haulage industry through apprenticeships and traineeships.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy did not make it clear whether or not he had referred any queries to the competition authority. I have given the Deputy an undertaking which I will fulfil to go to the Minister and get a response. However, the Deputy has not indicated whether he has taken the matter to the competition authority. What he has outlined is a competition issue. I do not know if the Deputy is saying...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: As such, the Deputy has been to the competition authority. I will take the matter up and come back to him with a response.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Again, I appreciate the Deputy's concerns. As he will know, active recruitment is taking place of as many as possible of the young nurses who are currently graduating. My understanding is that a significant number of these nurses are opting to stay in Ireland. Equally, some of them are leaving. Ongoing arrangements are in place to relocate 456 people to Ireland. A relocation package of...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: With respect, I read the submission.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy needs to go back and study. I specifically spoke about people who, in the context of nursing incomes, could be working part-time and earning up to €13,000. That group would be lifted out of the universal social charge net entirely. The USC has also been reduced significantly for people on the lower rates. However, the real gain is for people with a medium level of...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Ó Caoláin spoke about the understandable concern about delays and overcrowding in accident and emergency departments. As has been made clear on a number of occasions, dealing with delays in emergency departments is a priority for the Government. The Minister for Health commissioned the emergency department task force last December to provide focus and momentum in dealing...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: An increase of €28 million in the public service obligation subvention to the public transport companies was provided for in budget 2016. As this is the first time this has been done on such an enormous scale, I suggest that any ordinary person who is aware of the increase, including anyone who works in the CIE group of companies, will see it as a significant vote of confidence in...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I would have thought that as the transport spokesperson for Fianna Fáil, Deputy Dooley would have welcomed that.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I also want to talk about the enormous schedule of investment that has been committed to.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy asked me about the Government's commitment to Irish Rail. I am answering his question.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: If Deputy Dooley examines the capital programme that was launched two weeks before the budget, he will see that a new hub is to be developed at Broombridge.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: It will be called after a famous mathematician, William Rowan Hamilton, and will be open in two years time.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: It will be known as the Broombridge Hamilton hub. An immense amount of funding is being invested in the capital programme between now and 2021. Significantly and importantly for people working in Irish Rail, to whom I want to address my remarks as well as addressing them to Deputy Dooley-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: -----who must know all of this already, given that this is his brief, the electrification of the line between Connolly Station and Maynooth will take place over the next four years.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Over the period of this capital programme, the initial phase of the full electrification of the line from Dublin to the south will involve the stretch of the line as far as Hazelhatch.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I assume Deputy Dooley is a regular rail user, as I am myself.