Results 11,341-11,360 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: -----back to work. To do so, we turned the Department of Social Protection right around. Previously, the Department paid out income support but it is now running a public employment service where we work with employers in the private and public sector to help people who become unemployed to get jobs. The Deputy's proposal is that we extend it to other groups, such as those who have not...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: During my recent visit to the United States over the St. Patrick's Day period to promote Ireland I noticed a huge number of companies from the US interested in using Ireland as a base for employment. Many of the people described by Deputy O'Sullivan who have not been on the live register for one reason or another would be terrific employees for some of these companies but we must reach out...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: I agree with many of the points made. When I became the leader of the Labour Party, I prioritised something I did after I became the Minister for Social Protection. In the Social Welfare Bill, I reinstated the €1 cut made in the minimum wage by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil decided to cut the minimum wage by €1 an hour. For a woman working in a hotel job on low pay, reinstating the minimum wage was worth €36 or €40 a week.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: I met many of them through their trade unions and representative groups. This is a question asked by Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan. At the time, Deputy Colm Keaveney was a strong supporter of the reinstatement.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: Can I answer the question asked by Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: The temporary leader of Fianna Fáil is not showing due respect to Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: Restoring the minimum wage, which was cruelly cut by Fianna Fáil by €1 an hour, was the first thing we did.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: When I became the leader of the Labour Party, I asked my colleague the Minister of State, Deputy Gerald Nash, to bring together a low pay commission to deal with the issue of low levels of income. The Minister of State is undertaking, at my request, a study of the kind of conditions described, where people are on a low number of contracted hours. Although they are paid an hourly rate, if a...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: -----a pattern of investment in this country. Deputy McDonald's party is addressing that issue in the North at the moment where it going to let thousands of civil servants go in order to meet the financial requirements of her party being in government in the North and addressing the financial issues of the North, so we have to address the financial reality. More than a 1 million households...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: Just let me say-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: -----that those people at work, for instance, received reductions in the universerval social charge, USC, which I think the Deputy supports, so she must have read about that, and reductions in regard to income tax, so, yes as a country we are in recovery. Last year and this year we will have an extra thousand people - some 40,000 people - at work and that will provide more resources to fund...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: If Deputy McDonald is asking me again-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: -----do I support the work that the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, has done to bring in affordable charges of a net of €60 a year for a single individual and a net of €160 for a family of two adults plus children-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and the work he has achieved in reframing-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: -----the charges for Irish Water, yes, I strongly support that.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: We as a country should have started this about 30 year ago.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: We have 34 separate local authorities. We know already in Dublin that Irish Water by changing-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: -----the work on the Ringsend treatment system will make a saving for the taxapyer of €70 million to €80 million and produce a better water treatment system for Dublin.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Joan Burton: It is a big undertaking-----