Results 9,301-9,320 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: For that reason, I commend the reform-----
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and all the other reforms that the Government has made in this session of the Dáil.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: When this Government came into office the first thing we did was abolish a series of privileges which applied to politicians, in particular, to officeholders who served in government. We abolished all of the transition payments relating to retiring Ministers. Not only that, but Ministers and others who would serve henceforth received and took significant cuts in their salaries and in their...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I did not see them offering that.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I did not see them offering that.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Perhaps Deputy Fitzmaurice might lead by example. Perhaps he does not take that particular payment.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Perhaps Deputy Fitzmaurice would lead or, in terms of his fellow Independent Deputies, address-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Fitzmaurice-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Fitzmaurice said that he would support moves that "can legally be done" - that was the phrase he used. In that, his has used a very wise phrase, one with which I concur. This is because it is the same constitutional advice as has been given to the Government.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: It is related to the financial emergency measures. The financial emergency period, thankfully, is over and is beginning to recede.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: That is because of the sacrifices the people in Ireland have made. The legal advice to us, whether Deputies like it, is relevant. Deputy Fitzmaurice talked about what can be legally done. I accept the spirit in which he is making his proposal. However, he asked that we could see what can legally be done.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I will certainly take it up again with the Attorney General. However, a range of legal advice suggests that a pension right is a particular right people have. It was reduced in the emergency for people on over €100,000 by 20% and upwards. It was reduced even more by this Government when we came into office for current and future officeholders and Members. That was agreed and it was...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: At the moment according to the legal advice that is available to us, the recourse is that the people involved, whether they are in America sunning themselves, as Deputy Halligan has suggested-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Then, it behoves them and perhaps their former party members in the House - I am referring to the former party of government - to advise them that in the public interest they should actually not take what would be, in effect, some reduction in the level of reduction they are currently taking.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: My God, we will miss them. They left very fast.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: They actually have. They went out the door. They have gone away.
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: They left. It is proposed to take No. 44, Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015 - Report and Final Stages (resumed); No. 1a, Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015 - Amendments from the Seanad; No. 1b, Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015 - Amendments from the Seanad; No. 16, motion re Appointment of a Member of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (back from committee); No. 7,...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: We have a strategy in the forthcoming budget to put money back in the pockets of workers while building quality services.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Sinn Féin does not even seem to have an economic policy.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: It does not have a water policy and it does not have a policy which will put money in workers' pockets and help them go back to work.