Results 8,821-8,840 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I would suggest, Deputy, that that is the proper-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----issue that needs to be addressed. If it is being suggested, as it seems to be, that sums of money were being paid to individuals in a particular way, then it is right that the policing authorities should investigate that.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: It is right that the other agencies should investigate it and also that the Northern Ireland committee should investigate it-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and should produce answers. In regard to the Minister, Deputy Noonan, he is available to the Committee of Public Accounts and to all the other committees of this House-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin, Deputy McDonald, is a member of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I suggest that if Deputy Adams sees further merit in committees of this House, or members of Sinn Féin who are members of the Committee of Public Accounts, examining the matter further, they should do that.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: They should do that because it is important in terms of governance and integrity of practices in the North.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: That is what the Deputy said.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy said landlords can charge what they like.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I suggest that Fianna Fáil send a message to landlords who think they can charge what they like, regardless of people at work who are renting-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Sorry-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: We have learnt a lot about markets since people like the Deputies acted as cheerleaders for the banks, which caused the banks to collapse, and with it the construction industry.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: What is happening at present is that the Government is allocating, out of a recovering economy, a significant amount of capital funding to do a whole series of things. First, it is to reopen the void properties-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and second, it will build new houses. There are announcements and allocations to both the Deputy's own local authority and to local authorities nationwide.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Third, approved housing bodies will build houses, and fourth, local authorities will buy houses on the private housing market to house people. It is a four-part solution. As for the Deputy's specific question about the strategic investment fund, yes, half a billion euro has been allocated to housing in that regard. While I cannot give the Deputy a response now on the exact rate of...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: In addition, there are countries such as Austria, a small country like Ireland, from which models of rent certainty are available. I welcome Fianna Fáil's commitment to put manners on landlords who think they can charge what they like.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: First, I am advised that the loan sale was executed in a proper manner. There has been much confusion and conflation in the coverage of this matter. Much of the commentary has come in detail from various sources within Northern Ireland. My understanding is that there is an ongoing examination of a wide variety of statements and allegations made by different individuals in the North by a...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Subsequent to the fall, those houses ended up being worth €200,000 to €300,000 in some cases.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Subsequently, in terms of the recovery-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Subsequently, in terms of-----