Results 10,581-10,600 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: -----in praising the Department of Finance proposing to cut the minimum wage. I am shocked that Fianna Fáil would propose that.
- Order of Business (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: There was a glowing approving tone in his voice. He just said that its recommendation was his recommendation.
- Order of Business (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: I am shocked. There will be Fianna Fáil people throughout the country desperately shocked at this.
- Order of Business (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: When I was appointed Minister-----
- Order of Business (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: -----I made it my first job to reinstate the minimum wage. Fianna Fáil cut €1 an hour off it. Not since Ernest Blythe have we heard of anything as cruel done to very poor people as was done by Fianna Fáil on the minimum wage.
- Order of Business (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: I hear the Deputy now declaiming for the Department of Finance. Not a lot in politics surprises me, but this does. It was with regret that I heard it.
- Order of Business (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Let me say-----
- Order of Business (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Let me say-----
- Order of Business (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Let me say that the Low Pay Commission has been established to receive submissions from parties that wish to make submissions.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: As the Deputy knows, the Government has committed to probably the largest ever investment in social housing because most of the families to which she referred would be interested in obtaining social housing as the solution to their housing issues.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: That programme is under way. Councils have been given allocations and I want to see them starting work on the programme as soon as possible. In addition, the number of voided properties for which councils were given funding in recent years, including this year, should result in an extra 1,000 units being available this year-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: -----depending in particular on the co-operation and level of activity of Dublin City Council. If we can increase supply significantly, be it through reopening and refurbishing voided properties or building new properties as fast as we can and looking for co-operation, which we are getting, from the voluntary housing associations in making additional housing provision, this will be the...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: -----is at risk of homelessness because his or her lease might be coming to an end or the landlord has made an approach about raising the rent, causing the person concern, I am asking people in that situation and public representatives to get people to go to the community welfare services of the Department of Social Protection. We have already negotiated, in conjunction with quite a number...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: We have already-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Can I just say-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Can I just say that we have already this year negotiated 4,500-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Would Deputy Ellis do me the courtesy of listening?
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: We have already negotiated 4,500 rental agreements for families under the Department of Social Protection.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Sorry, but I am just going to repeat the figures. We have already negotiated this year 4,500 rentals through the rent supplement scheme. Deputy Ellis should not be saying to people that their only alternative is to register as homeless.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Joan Burton: He should get them to go to the community welfare service-----