Results 17,601-17,620 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----in supporting funerals so far this year has been about €1,300.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: The suggestion that this State, through its spend of €20 billion-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: The suggestion that this State-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----does not support people who have expenses arising out of bereavement is utterly and completely wrong.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: We are spending and will continue to spend very large sums of money. Deputy Naughten spoke about-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----people celebrating the death of the deceased person.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I am happy to say, Deputy Nulty, that if he reads the entitlements of------
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----the people he was talking about that the very large amounts of money we spend are maintained intact.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I hope Deputy Nulty will be decent enough to acknowledge that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: It is not my telephone.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I wish to respond briefly to the amendment the Deputy tabled. We already have extensive and appropriate investigative powers for the appointment of authorised and designated officers who have the power to obtain information from financial institutions without the consent of the customer where there are reasonable grounds for believing that a person has been fraudulently claiming a social...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: ----- that are proportionate and judicious.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I believe those measures are appropriate in the current circumstances.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Briefly, in respect of the Deputy's concern------
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I want to reply to the facts of the amendment.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: The situation concerning maternity benefit is that, like other such payments, it is paid out of the social insurance fund. When Deputy Donnelly examined those statistics he will have seen that there was a fall of about 250,000 people in employment, most of whom were men. The consequence of that reduction is that more men are going back to work because construction has begun to pick up...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: For the information of the House, although this may not have been shared with Deputy Healy, I offered to be here for much longer today. More importantly, I offered to be here next week.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Deputy Healy should take the issue up with his own Whip.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I offered to be here next week.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: That is a statistical fallacy. There were more men on the register in the first place.