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- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 15c, motion re revision of ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 5, Sport Ireland Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 15cshall be decided without debate.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The legislation on the A list relates to the availability of medical cards to people over the age of 70. I understand the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, has indicated he will meet GPs and their representatives. That process is probably already under way in the Department of Health and in the context of the HSE.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: When we spoke at length about this last week, I said that this is a certain part of the hidden history of Ireland. I have had a long personal involvement in this issue. I know many people who were in these homes and institutions. I told Deputy McDonald last week that Judge Yvonne Murphy has been appointed by the Government to conduct an inquiry. Rather than rushing the terms of the...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is not addressing the Ard Comhairle of Sinn Féin now-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----where she may choose to tell people how to vote, or else. She is speaking in the Dáil. She has no right to direct people of any party or none as to how they are to cast their secret ballot. It is quite impertinent of her to suggest how Members of the Dáil or the Seanad should vote. It is fine if she does that to her own members, via her own processes. They are voluntary...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: She can offer them her guidance and direction if that is the way her party works. This is a secret ballot. The nomination falls to the party which has the vacancy. That is the practice within government. I accept that practice because that is how it is and has been done.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy also raised questions about the appointment to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: Deputy McDonald------
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I am listening to the Ceann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: That is fine. Thank you.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: We are all aware that the Y case is a very sad one of a young woman who arrived in Ireland as an asylum seeker. Subsequently her baby was delivered. My concern in discussing this is that her confidentiality and vulnerability should be respected, as should those of the baby. This involves a young mother and a baby. We want to see the best outcomes for both. She has since been granted...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: Sorry, but the Deputy is in denial-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: As I speak, an initiative that the Garda has taken to revitalise community policing, using a model developed in the city centre and which has been in operation for a considerable period, is bearing significant fruit. It is popular with members of the public and there is appreciation in the community. The heart of the policing relationship is with the community at a local level, and I agree...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The practice has been that if a vacancy arises in the Seanad from one of the Government parties, the party from which the vacancy arises would nominate a person to fill the vacancy. Deputy McDonald would be familiar with the parallel practice for city and county councils, as well as the European Parliament. When people from the Deputy's party have stood down and a vacancy arose, the party...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----with city councils and in the European Parliament.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: All parties and Independents have followed-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----that practice. Fianna Fáil and Independents have followed the practice in the past. It is the norm.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The nomination is a matter for the Fine Gael Party, its leader and its members. It is not a matter for the Labour Party but rather it is for Fine Gael.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: It is a matter for the party which has the vacancy and it is for that party to make that nomination.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: With regard to the Deputy's comment on the gender of the individual, she asked where the Labour Party stands. Of the 11 appointments to the Government from the Labour Party, five of those are women and two of them are at a senior Government level. There are two at the Minister of State level and the Attorney General is also a woman. If the Deputy is trying to throw some dust on the policy...