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- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----the country investing in schools and hospitals and a water system that produces safe clean water. I cannot understand why Sinn Féin's policy is to bankrupt Irish Water and to potentially seek to bankrupt the Irish State, as it advocated some six or seven years ago when it wanted this country to default and do what some countries have, unfortunately, experienced in recent times. If...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----who all dealt with it in a different way and we have brought it together into a national utility, like the ESB or Bord Gáis, identifying leaks and lead pipes, issues which county councils around the country had sat on for years and not addressed. We have already begun to bring to an end to the scandal of boil water notices in County Roscommon, which is an enormous achievement that...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: We want to build a tourism industry, to attract foreign direct investment and build local Irish businesses. Above all, we want our farmers and our agriculture industry to prosper and we need good clean water for all those things, as well as for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren. Sinn Féin's vision is to pretend that instead of a functioning utility, we can load €800...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: What we are proposing in the budget is to give workers tax relief, particularly in terms of the USC, and to have a separate system for paying for water at a very moderate rate of €60 net for a single person household and €160 for two adults or more. This has been an extremely difficult debate and I acknowledge that there are people vehemently opposed to the development of Irish...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: The billing cycle started relatively recently and I am very confident that people will pay for clean, reliable drinking water that serves their needs from industry to hospital to private home.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: At least I am not the mouthpiece of Deputy Adams.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: In the forthcoming budget the Government will have room for spending of between €1.2 billion and €1.5 billion. Given where the country has come from, the improvements in both last year's and next year's budget offer us an opportunity to assist everybody in this country.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: More important, it will help us get more people back to work because the key to economic recovery is to get people back to work, either in jobs or in self-employment. There are some 4,000 involved in working directly or indirectly in the area of water services. Sinn Féin's proposal for water services is to throw those people out of a job and to bankrupt the provision of proper water...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: In the forthcoming budget the important thing is to see a shift in favour of people at work or in self-employment with low or middle incomes and to use that for the economic growth that everybody in this country has worked so hard to create. The people have worked so hard to get the country out of the economic difficulties they have borne. We want a recovery dividend and an easing in income...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Up to 200,000 people in this country do not have a formal bank account.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Let me say as Minister for Social Protection that, in that context, the Department of Social Protection relies on the post office system to make payments to the people who do not have bank accounts, and we will continue to rely on it.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: We also require the post office to be available for people-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----to collect their social welfare jobseeker's payments through the post office and turn up in person to collect them. It is for that reason that the post office has a very large and very valuable contract with the Department of Social Protection, worth more than €50 million. Fianna Fáil seems unable to count because it is suggesting that it is worth less than half of that....
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: They are the first few facts-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----that I would like to give to Deputy Troy.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I was just questioning why the Deputy's facts were so wrong.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I am happy to say that-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----my Department provides over €50 million worth of business to the post office system in Ireland.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: It is its largest single customer.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Normally, when entities have a significant and important customer-----