Results 12,321-12,340 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: I very much share Deputy O'Sullivan's view that the best resolution for an individual who has serious addiction problems is to try to get himself or herself completely clean. Given my experience down the years and knowing many who have made that journey as well as many now working in the sector, I agree that such is the best model. On the organisations which are involved in delivering...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: -----the hostel accommodation should recognise the stage that they are at. What should happen then is that we should seek to find homes for such persons. Not only have I been in many centres throughout the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: I was in Cork before Christmas-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: -----at the invitation of Simon. Simon in Cork, if I may say so, has an excellent approach to providing long-term homes-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for those who have come through a certain treatment situation.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: I spent last Monday talking to 15 or 16 very fine persons, as good any day as the Deputy or any of his colleagues who sit beside him-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: -----who have substance problems which they are battling to overcome.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: No.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is fantasising.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: Let me repeat for the Deputy the answer I just gave her. I said that in the budget, which was the first part of implementing the strategy, the Government made the largest allocation of Government funding for capital and current purposes to provide families with homes. That is step one. Step two is actually to provide that finance. The Deputy, but not I, quibbled that all the finance was...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: One must put the finance in place and then one must do the planning.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy seems slightly irritated over the fact that the Minister has met the county managers-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and that he meets them on a weekly basis. That is to the Minister's credit. The Deputy asked what part of the country the problem is in.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: The problem is at its most acute in the Dublin area, as she might have known having the honour to represent a Dublin constituency, because the population in the Dublin area is growing because there is so much employment being created there.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: I also pointed out to the Deputy that in the Dublin local authority areas, and in those in Cork, Galway and Limerick to a lesser extent, there are properties that were closed up when the tenancies were given up.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: We have funded them so they can be opened up.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Ellis should realise we have given them that funding.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: I hope he instructs his party members on local authorities around the country to enter in dialogue with their managers to see that the latter, who are responsible for opening up the closed houses and apartments, actually do so.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: That is third step. The Deputy should take it from me that we will be delivering on this commitment.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2015)
Joan Burton: We will be delivering on the largest housing programme in the recent history-----