Results 12,981-13,000 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: On the financial crash, what you are now suggesting-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----is that we ignore the Central Bank and go back to what Fianna Fáil used to do, which is to call in the bankers and order them directly. This is the road-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: If this is your policy suggestion, it is the way to return the country, should you get the chance, to another bank crash. That is what you are suggesting.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The priority of the Government is to offer people, as I have stated in previous discussions, a clear modest affordable charge with regard to Irish Water. We have listened very carefully, unlike at times Sinn Féin, to what people have had to say. We have been working on a package, which my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, is...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----to change water provision in the country from 34 local authorities.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy may have noticed that in the Galway and Roscommon area, as recently as this week, another 1,000 families unfortunately went on boil water notices. If Sinn Féin has decided the quality and condition of the water is not of enormous concern-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----it is an abdication of where it suggests it would offer an economic recovery for the country. We are providing a tax package and social welfare package which will directly address the families, about which the Deputy is rightly concerned-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----but these families also need good quality, safe and healthy water and everyone in the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: If we are to advance employment, industry, business, tourism and agriculture we need good clean water for these purposes also. The overall programme of the Government addresses precisely the points the Deputy has raised.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I have been listening very carefully to what people have said-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I have had the opportunity to be in a number of parts of the country in recent weeks, listening to people, which I do-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I am not sure if Sinn Féin always do, but I certainly listen to people. Listening the yesterday's debate it seems like there was a very large tin ear on the part of many of the people from the Deputy's party on very serious concerns. As I go around the country I listen to what people say to me, and I can only offer the Deputy my experience-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy asked me about listening.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: May I tell the Deputy about listening? May I answer the Deputy's questions?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: What people say to me is they want clean reliable water. In Roscommon they tell me they do not want to have to boil water, as they have been doing for 12 years. In Dublin, restaurants and hotels tell me that to continue the tourism and hospitality trade-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----Dublin needs a reliable supply of water but it does not have it.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: On the questions in respect of next week, I have told the Deputy already the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, is finalising a package of proposals on Irish Water. Apart from what I told the Deputy some weeks ago, no agreement has been finalised on the package. As I think I told the Deputy some weeks ago, I am very confident that the package will be one that will address the issue of single...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I will place this issue in context. Everyone who has a mortgage, in particular younger people in the age group of 35 to 50 years, may have taken out a mortgage in good faith when Fianna Fáil was in government at the height of the boom-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: -----and house prices were in a bubble. Of course we know that at a certain stage the banks stopped offering tracker deals. I am sure Deputy McGrath will be happy to acknowledge that it was very much on his party's watch that when the tracker deals ended the people who came after that period faced variable rates. There are times in financial structures when a fixed rate can militate...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2014)
Joan Burton: I am glad the Deputy mentioned the Central Bank. Banks in Ireland are regulated and supervised by the Central Bank-----