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- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: If families or individuals have particular needs, as always, the Department of Social Protection will seek to help.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: This is as we have done for people with ESB or Bord Gáis debts.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: We want to set in motion a mechanism to support people in meeting their obligations.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The social welfare system has done this for decades and if there are cases-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----where families or individuals have a particular difficulty-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----we can help such individuals and families, as we have done through the decades. The increases in tax savings or take-home pay for people on the average industrial wage will be €8 per week. That refers to somebody on approximately €34,000 and it will come into effect when the employer puts those changes into effect.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: That compares to the €1.15 or €3 figure for the week for water charges.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is referring to ongoing discussions between the European Union-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----and the United States with regard to trade. As the Deputy probably knows, we are a trading island and we must make our living in the world. Any negotiations that provide markets for Irish goods and services are of significant importance to developing and sustaining employment in Ireland. The Deputy is referring to fair trade regulations, and if they can take into account the interests...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I thank Deputy McDonald for her comments and I hope people like her, in positions of leadership particularly, will remove this slur cast on the people of Jobstown and Tallaght by the way the leaders of the demonstration conducted themselves.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The people of Tallaght and Jobstown are owed an apology and I thank Deputy McDonald for disassociating herself from the extremely damaging behaviour. The people in Jobstown and Tallaght work hard, earn their money and pay their taxes. They do not deserve to be traduced in the way that was done by the organisers of the protest.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Their children have ambitions to work and to go to college and not to have the name of Tallaght, or the name of any working class unit in Dublin, traduced.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Deputy Paul Murphy seemed pretty happy to have the Garda Síochána bring him out of the demonstration and taken away safely when it got rougher.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I presume at that point Deputy Paul Murphy put the megaphone back in the boot of his car.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I know this is taking extra time but I want to thank Deputy McDonald for disassociating herself and her party from what happened in Tallaght on Saturday. It is not good for anyone in Ireland and not good for the community. It is not about me, it is about the community in Tallaght and Jobstown. With regard to her question, under the revised package of a fresh start for Irish Water, people...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: This is the alliance of the Tea Party and Trotskyist. This is a new political party in Ireland. The Tea Party Trotskyists, a homegrown Irish version.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: Deputy Stephen Donnelly knows-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----there has been an intense amount of investment, particularly under the previous Government. Fianna Fáil made a lot of investment, as did the local authorities throughout the country through development levies, in water delivery and sewerage systems. Having boundaries for pipes that stop at the county boundary makes no sense.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: There was no great achievement with regard to the road programme because, similarly, it made no sense.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: With regard to Fianna Fáil, I acknowledge that when the National Roads Authority brought together previously disassociated county roads investment plans, we got one of the better legacies of the prosperous years, a motorway system that vastly improved the service and usability of our road system. Anyone who turned left at Paulstown to go to Waterford, as I did over a long period and I...