Results 17,781-17,800 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----to help young people go back to work and not create for them the self-image that he seems to be setting out of languishing on the dole for the best years of their lives. This is not my ambition for our young people and, as the Deputy is a socialist, it should not be his.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Deputy Higgins's attitude to young people disappoints me terribly. When his party ran a certain council across the water it had to hire taxis to send out redundancy notices to the poor unfortunate workers of that local authority.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: It is an historical fact.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: With regard to Larkin-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----and the anniversary of 1913, if Larkin were alive today he would want - and this is what the strike in 1913 was about - people to get work where work was closed off to them on the docks and in other employment. The Deputy has a nerve-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----to come in here and disparage our young people-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----and to say-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----our young people are only capable of being on social welfare.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Deputy Higgins's only vision for our young people-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----is life on social welfare rather than getting a job.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Deputy Higgins is seriously lacking in understanding of the importance of work in the lives of people who must earn their living-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----in order to be financially independent.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Twenty-one thousand young people have undertaken internships-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----and 60% of them have found employment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Deputy Higgins seems to regret young people getting work. He is seriously misled.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Seriously misled.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: It would be very difficult to make Deputy Higgins happy, from my acquaintance with him over the decades. I am sorry I have not succeeded, but perhaps when he reads up further he will come to have a change of heart.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I am happy to give him more information on internships and perhaps-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Data (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Perhaps he will be converted to the cause of getting young people work.
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Appeals (17 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: This question relates to a child who was born in 1997. While payment of child benefit has moved between the parents over the intervening years, payment has been made continually in respect of the child since the month following his birth. I understand the principal residence of the child and the matter of who should receive the child benefit is under dispute between the parents in this...