Results 8,541-8,560 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: My understanding is that NAMA is working very hard on the matter and has already delivered more than 1,500 apartments and houses, which have been used to house families.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I understand that ongoing issues arise in certain local authorities in terms of whether certain accommodation is acceptable to them. I am not familiar with the detail of the development which the Deputy identified, but it is NAMA's objective, in particular where there are houses and apartments in urban areas where the level of demand is high but it is a bit more difficult in more remote...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: NAMA already allows for the transfer of property.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I am sorry.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: It is allowing for transfers.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I am aware that the trial is due to take place and that it should finally go ahead on 4 October. As Deputy Crowe is aware, the difficulty has been that there have been constant delays and adjournments of the court proceedings. The Government's objective in the case of Ibrahim Halawa is to see him released by the Egyptian authorities so that he can return to his family and his studies in...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I am sorry, we have consular staff and they have been providing constant assistance to him in the context of him being held in custody. We would like to see Mr. Halawa returned home to Ireland and reunited with his family as soon as that is possible. I hope we will have a speedy conclusion and see him restored to his family.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The University of Limerick is a very fine institution and it has provided first-class educational and development services to students, not only from Limerick but from the entire country. It is rightly recognised as one of our most outstanding third level institutions. It is important to say that about the university, which I have had the privilege of visiting on many occasions.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: In my experience as a former member of the Committee of Public Accounts, the remit would properly lie with it. I am quite sure that were the Deputy to bring this matter to the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts, Deputy McGuinness, it should be possible, given the urgency the Deputy attaches to the statement he has just made, for the Chairman perhaps to schedule hearings of that...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: There will be a dedicated debate on the capital programme, which will put a significant amount of public investment into the capital programme over the next five years. In fact it will provide employment, particularly in the building trade for tens of thousands of people-----
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: -----working in that industry.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: We inherited from Fianna Fáil-----
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: ----- a country where unfortunately because of its misguided-----
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and failed actions on the building industry-----
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: -----we ended up with the receivers coming into Ireland from the IMF-----
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and the other institutions.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: We took on the rescue and we are now at a position-----
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: We are now at a position where there has been an enormous improvement in the number of houses now being built. My constituency is a hive of development activity because it is on the outskirts of Dublin. I have not seen such levels of building activity. I know most of the people who are here would not be familiar with Blanchardstown and areas like that.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Across the constituency we now have a very significant recommencement of building homes for families which is welcome. That is happening particularly right across Dublin but it is also happening in all the other regions.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: We are also developing a very ambitious social housing programme.