Results 12,421-12,440 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: I thank the Deputy for his good wishes and the good wishes to the staff. My understanding is that the Convention on the Constitution has come to the end of its work. There are certainly no proposals to reconvene it this year. I am not aware of any other proposals to do so either. Clearly, the matters relating to the eighth amendment to the Constitution require very careful consideration...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: I am conscious this is an important issue for those affected. I am aware that the foreign affairs committee has been in discussions with RTE on the matter. I am sure RTE is also conscious about its far-flung listenership which likes to listen to programmes on the traditional long wave service. I will make inquiries as to what, if anything, can be done by RTE to address these changes....
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is lucky enough to have what might be called a Kildare shout. There is no difficulty in either ourselves or anybody else not being able to make out every word he has to say.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: I anticipate the control and sale of alcohol legislation will be brought before the Dáil in the middle of next year.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: I am delighted at what has happened in the relationship been the United States and Cuba. The boycott of Cuba had been in place for more than 50 years and I am delighted to see it lifted. I wish prosperity and positive developments from this for the people of Cuba. I understand this is covered by the mediation Bill. The Deputy will know that last weekend we marked the successful conclusion...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: As this is the season of goodwill, I am sure everybody will listen to the Order of Business with a great sense of goodwill and, as happened in the First World War, set aside their hostilities and allow a little truce.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: Most of the time I love to listen to Deputy McGrath, but on this occasion I ask that he give me the floor.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 21a, motion re presentation and circulation of Revised Estimates 2015; No. 21b, motion re membership of committee; No. 44, Protection of Children’s Health (Tobacco Smoke in Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Bill 2012 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; No. a1, Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed) and remaining Stages; No....
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: I thank the Deputy and extend my good wishes to her and to everybody else in the House for a happy and peaceful Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous new year. In respect of rent supplement, I will first reiterate what I have stated previously. The approach my Department has been taking is that it has been particularly involved in trying to identify families who are at risk of losing...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: In the budget, the Government sought to put together the largest capital programme for housing in a generation. I note that this has been welcomed by Deputies on all sides of the House because, ultimately, increasing supply is the only long-term and medium-term way to address the issue arising from the fact that Ireland has a growing population. Moreover, the population of families with...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: -----the regional managers of the community welfare services to emphasise the discretionary power they have in the law to deal with individual cases. At this point in time, under the protocol that the Department has been working on with Threshold and other agencies since the middle of June, more than 300 families have been housed. Moreover, the Department has been rolling out tailored...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: First, in respect of the Deputy's question on the amount of the budget and the amount of money allocated, I wish to make clear that this is flexible. Obviously, as the Deputy herself has described, it depends on how rent pressures can vary from area to area. For instance, I am conscious that in the constituency represented by the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, in the south east...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy asked a serious question and I want to try to explain the answer to her.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: I believe Deputy Catherine Murphy would like to hear the answer, and she asked the question on the Deputy's behalf.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: On the Deputy's question about the operation of the banks at present with regard to buy-to-let mortgages, many of which are in difficulty, as recently as last week there was a meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee at which this was discussed in some detail. My view is that we might have an arrangement whereby, when a bank appoints a receiver, it could be a rent receiver. There is no doubt...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: The Government has been working through a menu of the very important proposals brought forward by the Constitutional Convention. There will be an opportunity for the Deputy and others from his party to bting forward proposals on the work of the convention.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: We have not heard it.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy may not be aware that the proposal that a constitutional convention be established was originally put forward by the Labour Party in opposition and adopted by the Government as part of its programme.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: I do not recall Sinn Féin putting forward any systematic proposal to review, in detail, various constitutional issues through the work of a randomly selected group of citizens who would come and give their view. When we took office, some of the highest levels of emigration had occurred after the economy had collapsed under the previous Government. Thanks to the Government, we can see...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)
Joan Burton: I do not know whether the Deputy is aware that there is a huge amount of recruitment in Ireland and, in case people abroad are listening, I want to use the opportunity provided by the Deputy's question and positive comments about emigrants to say when people are at home, a job may be available to them in Ireland.