Results 12,761-12,780 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: For a moment, I thought the Deputy was going to be controversial.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I will make inquiries for Deputy Ó Fearghaíl and revert to him.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I understand that it is on Committee Stage and that a number of amendments are to be tabled.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: A great deal of work is proceeding on this legislation and the important issue of the children's hospital, but I do not actually have a date as yet.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Regarding the criminal justice (legal aid) Bill, my understanding is that it will be in the middle of next year. Regarding the family leave Bill, I understand that it will be in the first half of next year.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I have said many times that I look forward to having such legislation before the House. As the Deputy alluded, there are many complex legal and constitutional issues. A great deal of work is ongoing, but I will take the matter up with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to see whether a more definitive timeline for the Bill is available.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: There was good news yesterday on the jobs front in terms of the increasing number of jobs, but I understand the Deputy's anxiety about seeing the dividend spread to every part of the country. The heads of the legislation that the Deputy referred to were, if my memory serves me correctly, introduced to Cabinet around September. Therefore, I anticipate that this Bill will be before the House...
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I will have to revert to the Deputy on that, having requested information from the Minister for Health.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: It is the practice to announce any likely Report Stage amendment on Committee Stage as a courtesy to the House. That is basically what I did yesterday. I will bring any matter that requires to be dealt with to the House on Report Stage.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The other issue is that people on rent supplement are unable to go back to work because the conditions of the rent supplement scheme do not provide for differential rent, whereas the housing assistance payment and local authority differential rent systems allow people to take up work and calculate how much their rents might increase by.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I agree with Deputy Murphy that the provision of good-quality, affordable housing to individuals and families is one of the biggest challenges facing Irish society. The allocation of €2.2 billion over the next three years is one of the basic social dividends from the budget. As I have said previously, it takes some time to build houses. The problem with the current housing market,...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: It decided, probably because so much house-building was going on, that all of this should be left to the private market.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Some 73,000 households are being housed in the private market at present. The private market supply is tightening all of the time. The target for the increase in the number of houses by the end of 2015 is 15,000. This is not a long-term target. Deputy Murphy is correct when she says that there is a short-term objective, which is to bring all the voids into play. I refer to the 1,800 or...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: It has always been a mystery to me that councils can board up perfectly good houses. I think we will see a very significant change. In relation to the people who are homeless at the moment, the protocol I spoke about is available right around the country. I am happy to talk to the Deputy privately if she feels that a protocol like that which has been operating in Dublin since June would be...
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 20d, motion re Standing Orders 94B and 94C; No. 20e, motion re Standing Order 99; No. 20f, Supplementary Estimates [Votes 20, 21 and 22] - back from committee; No. 9, Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 40, Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I am very concerned, as I know Deputy Catherine Murphy is, about any family which has problems securing a long-term tenancy or ownership of a family home. We all share a common objective to ensure that as many as possible of our people are properly housed. That was the purpose of yesterday’s announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: As the Deputy has raised this without any notification, I have to say to her in regard to this particular case, which has been spoken of over a long number of years, that she and people in Sinn Féin would be very well aware of the fact that Mr. Domhnall Ó Lubhlaí was identified for a long period of time very closely as a very significant and important republican figure....
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----he was associated with Sinn Féin-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Certainly in any reference that I ever heard to Mr. Ó Lubhlaí his connections to the republican movement were always very strongly identified. Deputy McDonald might not like to hear that-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----but that is the reality.