Results 13,461-13,480 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: That is a matter for the Whips who can have such a discussion.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: I favour Irish Water having communications with the different political parties and with the Oireachtas. It is a publicly-owned company and is responsible in terms of public accountability. I am sure it will provide public accountability - as is required of similar public utility bodies - to this House on its own operations. The Deputy's other query concerned the Finance Bill which will...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, will launch the housing strategy sometime next week. The launch of this major policy document on social and other housing will be significant. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, is examining the tax arrangements for vacant sites. I will talk to him about it and come back to the Deputy later....
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: That is an old slogan but still an important one. The public purse is the way to properly provide for social housing. I know that many Members opposite, some of whom are present, are opposed to taxation of any kind. They say to people there is no need for any taxation, yet they still can have all of the services they want. One cannot have quality public housing without having a sound...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: It is a little like the last discussion. It is not possible to claim that one can have no taxation or charges but one can have the finest of services. It just does not work like that.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: I apologise. I saw Deputy Joe Higgins on his feet and thought the Leas-Cheann Comhairle was going to call him on Leaders’ Questions.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: The Order of Business is No. a11, motion re withdrawal of the Ombudsman for Children (Amendment) Bill 2014; No. 23, European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014 - Report and Final Stages (resumed); No. 24, Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Order for Report Stage and Report and Final Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Private...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: No, the Deputy is wrong.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: The Government has had a significant number of debates and discussions on the matter.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: Any such debate would be a matter for the Whips. I do not see any reason to change the Order of Business. Deputy Joe Higgins does not seem to be aware that in the budget the families to whom he referred will receive a reduction in the taxes they have to pay. There is a rebalancing of the tax structure in order that people at work, including hardworking individuals on low and middle...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy in his lofty way can dismiss all of this and the fact that there are more people at work. He seems to want everyone to be on welfare payments. That is his vision for society.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: I want to see people at work. I recall when the Deputy’s party was in charge of the city council in Liverpool a long time ago.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: In the end, the Deputy’s party sacked the council workers and sent taxis to give them their redundancy notices.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: I am delighted that the budget provides for a capital investment of €2.2 billion in social housing provision over the next three years. I thank Deputy Wallace for acknowledging that. The plan will involve investing €1.5 billion directly from the Exchequer with public private partnerships and off-balance sheet vehicles to get approximately €400 million more in by 2017....
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: The Labour Party has been examining the issue of rent controls. I was brought up in a rented home, which is something I am not sure many Members were. While it is a very good way to provide homes for families, those families need security of tenure. Traditionally in Ireland, people want to own their own properties. Young couples who are working and raising families desire ownership of a...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: What are they doing?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: They are paid a part-time stipend. What are they doing if they are not speaking to their manager about this?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: In regard to my concerns about families who are on low incomes or are unemployed, the budget contains €200 million of spending. I am happy to say this includes the restoration of the Christmas bonus on a partial basis and the payment to the kinds of family to which Deputy McDonald referred, and all the other families in Ireland, of a small but significant sum of €5 per month in...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: For families in this category, this is about my concern to see those families and their children prosper and thrive. A back to work family dividend of €30 per week will be paid where somebody in the household takes up employment. I am not sure that Deputy McDonald has much personal experience of what it is like not to be well off or to be unemployed.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Joan Burton: In choosing to lecture me about issues like that-----