Results 9,581-9,600 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: That is the first job. The second job, once we have reached that point in the liquidation process, is to seek any legal mechanism we can utilise-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----to see what can be done to secure the maximum return to taxpayers. I do not have a complete answer on that at this stage, because we still do not have any reports from the liquidators who have just commenced their work.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Third, of course we will review company law.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: The Minister of State, Deputy Nash, produced a preliminary report on Clerys. He is the first Minister to have done such a thing, and I commend him for it. It is a preliminary report and, as with tax avoidance law, mechanisms will have to be developed to ensure that, notwithstanding that we accept groups of companies, although perhaps Sinn Féin does not accept-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----the possibility of that structure-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: We will then review company law to ensure that an occurrence such as this, in so far as possible, is prevented from happening in the future.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: First, with regard to Alan and Kelly, if the Deputy has been advising them as constituents, I strongly suggest that he ask them to get in touch with the community welfare service in the area. That has been the consistent advice to people in housing difficulties. They should go and talk to the community welfare service, which has complete discretion with regard to the amount of rent that may...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil cut the minimum wage.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: It cut the weekly income-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----of lone parents by €16.40 a week.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil also cut the minimum wage by €1 an hour. Lone parents in Fianna Fáil's time-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----of the kind that Deputy Stagg is talking about lost €16 a week.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: If they were working 15 hours a week-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----they actually lost a further €15.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: They were actually down €30 a week.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: That is the Deputies' legacy. They do not seem to remember it.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: You have some records, lads.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: You have some records.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I have had the opportunity to meet a number of the Clerys workers, many of whom were there for 40 years or more. I want to say formally on the record of the Dáil that I thank SIPTU for making its premises available to facilitate the Department of Social Protection going in and giving very extensive help and assistance to workers in relation to their entitlements. The people who come...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----I suggest he is advocating such a tactic not out of a lack of concern for the workers but possibly out of a lack of experience of dealing with the issues that arise in legislation from the Clerys case.