Results 961-980 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019) Joan Burton: Mr. Tobin is saying that if the borrower were married to the bank he or she would have a legal and proportionate right, but, as borrowers are likely to be married to another human being, that right does not exist.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019) Joan Burton: Mr. Tobin referred to spouses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019) Joan Burton: My question was whether the Department carried out extensive research regarding the funds acquisitions of the assets because, obviously, that has national economic implications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019) Joan Burton: One reads of these matters in newspapers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019) Joan Burton: Yes, okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019) Joan Burton: The constitutional issue seems to be the major difference between the committee and the Central Bank. Do the witnesses accept that there are competing rights in the Constitution? Do they accept that it is now widely held internationally that shelter is a fundamental human right? That right is recognised in the international convention on economic and social rights. It has also been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019) Joan Burton: That is a point of view. Is Mr. Tobin suggesting that the Department's point of view is that property rights trump individual, human, family, personal and social rights? There is a very wide constitutional view that those rights have a very significant status. We recognise private property rights but we also recognise human rights in terms of individuals, families and children. It is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019) Joan Burton: Yes. Does Mr. Tobin accept the following? Article 43.2.1° states: "The State recognises, however, that the exercise of rights mentioned in the foregoing provisions of this Article ought, in civil society, to be regulated by the principles of social justice." Article 43.2.2° states: "The State, accordingly, may as occasion requires delimit by law the exercise of the said rights...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish Donal Hickey and his family every happiness in his retirement. Given his previous portfolio, how concerned is the Tánaiste about the fact that today there are almost 4,000 children homeless out of the 10,000 people who are homeless? In the Dublin area and I think parts of Cork, where a lot of people are renting, landlords are increasingly...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: -----they cost between €600,000 and €700,000. Is there any sense of action on the part of Fine Gael to address the issue of homeless children?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: We brought 5,000 boarded-up houses back into use.
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Comhairle na Tuaithe (28 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: 182. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason Comhairle na Tuaithe has not met since the middle of 2018; his plans to reconvene same; and his views on the role of the advisory body. [14552/19]
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Fine Gael certainly rowed back in Rathgar once it heard how the public felt.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach is defending his colleague, Mr. Orbán.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: This Government is overrun with public consultations and, to quote Donald Trump, a lot of it is fake. One thinks of BusConnects in relation to which documents were sent out all over Dublin with complete confusion as to what the proposals were. These consultations are then extended and re-extended and then we wait for some years. Does the Taoiseach's office propose to have a framework of...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: It is basically a gold mine for PR consultants employed by Government.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Since the Taoiseach's visit to the United States of America for St. Patrick's Day I think that President Trump has probably made one of the most profound and historic statements of his presidency so far in a very eye-catching period for his presidency when he made his statement on America's future approach to the Golan Heights. I assume that when the Taoiseach was in Egypt for the EU-Arab...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: -----is a key part of what drives conflict in all of these regions. I would like to know what the Government plans to propose in this regard. In the context of Italy's relationship with the Mediterranean Sea, which is long and historic, we now see that populism is very seriously on the march in Italy. I note that one of the Taoiseach's fellow European People's Party, EPP leaders, Mr....
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach comment on the politics of populism? I understand that Mr. Orbán's membership of the EPP seems to be suspended but he is perfectly happy with that. He is a member but it is not an active membership currently-----
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)
Joan Burton: He was suspended.