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- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: We will be very happy and there will be a debate next week on the capital programme. That will certainly happen next week.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: On the important issue of debating all the reports from the Convention on the Constitution, I would be happy to suggest to the Whips, including Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh, that they might provide for more Friday and Monday sittings so that if we have a backlog we can utilise the time to allow the Members to come in here and debate-----
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I am just trying to be helpful to the House. We have no difficulty in putting on additional time and particularly utilising Fridays and Mondays to address any of the outstanding recommendations that the Deputy feels would benefit from more detailed discussion and debate in here. We can provide a lot of time for that and I am sure many Deputies would be anxious to avail of the time to debate...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I am a very strong supporter of the credit union movement. It is the friendliness, approachability and quality of personal service that is available from credit unions that is extremely attractive to people who put their savings into credit unions and using their services, not just in rural areas but also in inner-city communities and new communities around cities. My Department has...
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 14, proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Exchange of Information Relating to Tax Matters (Argentine Republic) Order 2015 (back from committee); No. 15, proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia) Order 2015 (back from committee); No. 16, proposed approval by...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The one thing I do regret reading about Dublin City Council in recent days was that it took a sprightly but elderly woman - I think she was 90 - to court over a satellite television debt. To be perfectly honest, I think Dublin City Council might have been better rewarded by dealing with the issue, albeit a planning infringement, by concentrating its resources on some of the issues that...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The council can do it.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: First, I have to declare an interest as, like most people here, I am a credit union member and have been over a long period. I basically agree with the Deputy that credit unions are incredibly important to people across the length and breadth of this country. They provide a mechanism for friendly financial services that people respect and enjoy. In addition, we have specialist credit...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: One of the Deputy's.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I was not talking about the Deputy personally.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I express my sympathy to the people living in the development at Longboat Quay. I can imagine how worrying it is for people who have bought apartments there and who took out mortgages over a long period. Dublin Fire Brigade, in seeking to ensure there are proper fire regulations in respect of those apartments and every other set of apartments, is performing a very important public service...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Why not?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Exactly.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Let me be very clear. Deputy Kelleher's colleague beside him will remember the long debates in this House that went through the night on several occasions, in which I represented the Labour Party.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should bear with me now. The point is that we made a decision collectively, for good or for bad, as a Parliament. I think it was for the good - I supported the late Mr. Brian Lenihan in his position - that politicians should be removed from the process. Otherwise, every little developer and every big developer in the country could be involved. I was a member of the old Dublin...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I am glad that Fianna Fáil now supports that approach.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: I have no difficulty, nor has the Government, with NAMA going to any institution in the North of Ireland. We do not dictate to NAMA----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Fianna Fáil Deputies are trying to have their cake and eat it.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: Their party caused the bank crash. That was bad enough. It established NAMA. I was a critic of it and am still-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputies should hold on and listen. As far as I am concerned it is a decision for NAMA if it chooses to go to the North. I would be perfectly happy----