Results 10,721-10,740 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: When she goes for a monologue, as she is doing, it is difficult even to hear what the points in the monologue are. The Department of Social Protection-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: What the Department of Social Protection does-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for the lady and for anybody else in this situation is that we have a whole set of structures in place to support and help people-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: -----with meeting their household costs and paying debts so they do not get mired in debt. We have a household budgeting system which helps a huge number of people through An Post. Many of the Deputies in the House are very familiar with it.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: I thank Deputy Fleming. As he is probably aware, the European Union in its budgetary programme for the next number of years has reduced the amount which countries such as Ireland receive under this heading. This is alongside the various changes happening in farming and the Common Agricultural Policy. I absolutely accept what Deputy Fleming said, that Leader has been an enormously important...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Whether Deputy McDonald believes it or not, people find value in life by participating in the community and particularly by being able to get well-paid work and develop a well-paid career.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: As regards this proposal in respect of civil debt, does Sinn Féin welcome the fact that when this legislation is enacted people will no longer be imprisoned for civil debt matters?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputies on all sides of the House have called for this basic reform over a very long period. Does Sinn Féin welcome it or not? It is a fundamental reform of how debt is dealt with. The second thing about debt in a modern society is that it affects people at all levels of society. As we know from the crash, it is not just people on a tight budget who find it difficult to manage -...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: On the matter of debt, I cannot give the Deputy the kind of detail she is looking for because the legislation is being drafted as we speak. The Government made a principled decision yesterday evening to adopt broadly the reforms advocated by the Law Reform Commission in 2010 in respect of civil debt, particularly to distinguish between those who will not pay despite being on comfortable...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Earlier on in her tirade, Deputy McDonald asked me whether I would have a conversation with Deputy Michael Noonan. I ask her if she has ever had a conversation with her party leader about various issues concerning him, or is she a coward? Secondly, in respect of some of the people sitting in this Chamber who have the honour to represent people in this country, our salaries and conditions...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: They are not suggesting they cannot pay but that someone on a very handsome salary should get the compliant pensioner to-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: We have over 1.2 million people-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Really?
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: I could have a discussion with Deputy Crowe about disgracing one's self any day of the week if he is prepared to talk about things. The issue is somebody who is well off and refuses to pay.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy McDonald has clearly had a chance to look at the Law Reform Commission report. The heart of that report is to distinguish between those who can pay but will not, and those who do not have the ability to pay.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: The report sets out mechanisms and methods whereby people who cannot pay will be helped in dealing with debt issues. Allow me to say one thing I regret about the water campaign-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy and her colleagues have an absolute right to campaign and march on the street at any stage. However, in the previous history of campaigns by ultra-left groups, the charges that ordinary people were subjected to have mounted up. When those groups left and went to join another campaign those ordinary people were left to face those charges.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: People on social welfare pay their bills and meet their household commitments just like everybody else. We know that people struggle to pay, but to imply that somehow or other those in receipt of social welfare do not pay their bills is a slander.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: After the Deputy and his party had bankrupted the country, his special contribution to poor people, as a member of the Government, was to reduce the minimum wage by €1 an hour.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2015)
Joan Burton: He did that, together with his colleagues. It was a low blow-----