Results 13,881-13,900 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has great experience of the Department of Health and he knows even better than I do that there are always views and discussions within Departments during the approach to the budget regarding the settling of departmental Estimates. We are in the period when we will settle the budget for 2015. The Taoiseach and I, on the formation of the new Cabinet, agreed the priorities for the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I know Deputy Dessie Ellis knows about the MABS services and I referenced him because I am aware of the work that goes on in Finglas. I am also very familiar with the work that happens in the Cabra area. I am not sure if Deputy Mary Lou McDonald is, but I certainly am. I have maintained the money the Government spends on providing this service because it is a vital support-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I will get to it. MABS provides an important service for people who get into difficulty with debt
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: If she wants to declaim, I will stop while she does.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I thought the Deputy had something interesting to say. I welcome all of the reports from MABS because they provide important information for people like me, as Minister, and, I hope, people such as the Deputy, as a senior Opposition spokesperson, in formulating policy that helps people who have debt difficulties not just now but continuously through the years as they manage money. MABS...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: Why in Northern Ireland has Sinn Féin an average household charge of almost €1,000? What the Deputy is saying is really a bit of cant because her party in government in the North imposes significantly higher charges on householders, whether they are rich or poor.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I have published with the Taoiseach three commitments which are important in the context of the forthcoming budget. The first is, as I said in reply to Deputy Micheál Martin, an agreed budget of €42 million for a payment on a quarterly basis of €100 per year to people in receipt of the household benefits package. It will be paid to 410,000 households and includes...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: Families with members returning to work receive approximately €30 per child. They will be able to hold on to that payment for a period
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: For instance, if someone has two or three children, it would be worth €60 or €90 to them per week, in addition to what they might be entitled to receive under the family income supplement scheme. The best way to help families and individuals who have lost their jobs, for the most part through no fault of their own, is to help them to get back into employment. This year we will...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I said that I anticipate that the CER will report shortly and publicly in respect of the "boil water" notices. I hope the Deputy understands that. The Taoiseach told him that yesterday and I will repeat it today if it is helpful. In respect of the second issue about which the Deputy asked, as he knows, the form that has been sent out to people by Irish Water asks them to give information...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: On Monday evening at the end of the Labour Party away day, I went to a MABS office that was not too far from where the away day was held. I spent something like two hours sitting down with the ten staff in that office to discuss the kind of cases that feature in the report. What the Deputy may not know and what Sinn Féin probably does not know is that the Department of Social...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: I thought the Deputy might want to talk about the economy and the fact the economy, according to the CSO, is actually performing very well-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----that it is not a credit-fuelled bubble recovery and that it is, in fact, around people going back to work. Irish Water - I say this in the context of Deputy Martin's own party's proposals in regard to the IMF plans - was to have a very significant investment package and a programme of water charges which were to be flat charges of, on average, €400. That is what-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The documents are there. They were Fianna Fáil's own proposals so, obviously, its members have changed their minds in terms of where it is now at-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----to, in fact, being rather cynical, seeing they entered into international obligations to agree to flat water charges of €400. Their current position is cynical in the extreme.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: In the context of the recovery of the economy, I do not think it makes sense because the actual investment programme of a couple of billion euro into really decent water infrastructure for the whole country is an essential provision for the economy recovering-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: -----and for the annual creation and employment of an additional 1,000 to 2,000 people. If we want to draw very strong international investment into Ireland, as today's CSO figures show-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: The output of that is clear in today's figures, which show we are probably the strongest growing economy in Europe at this point. We see lots of people-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: These are the CSO's figures, not my figures. They are independent figures by a respected organisation.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)
Joan Burton: Let me explain. If we want to have-----