Results 161-180 of 2,511 for long speaker:Joan Burton

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: ...Panama Papers of the widespread tax evasion on which they have shone a light? Does Mr. Byrne have a view on that matter? While he has said the bank's activities in Jersey and the Isle of Man are long over, are there other jurisdictions or arrangements in place in which the bank continues to facilitate wealthy individuals or businesses in arranging their affairs in such a way as to avoid...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: 692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements of persons qualifying for the long-term illness scheme; her plans to make provision for persons within this category who do not receive a social welfare payment in their own right to be included in vocational training opportunities and employment schemes; if persons qualifying under the long-term illness...

Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: ...of the eighth amendment to put to the people shows what the methodical working of political institutions can do to deliver change and the potential of progress. I hope we will see not before too long a referendum being put to the people to repeal the eighth amendment on the lines suggested and proposed by the committee. I congratulate all the parliamentarians who took part in the...

Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: ...what will happen, there is a question, tricky as it is, about the presence of those who have been voted in largely by nationalists in Northern Ireland to represent them in the UK Parliament. We all know the long history of abstention but lots of long histories come to an end.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: ...to what their options are in that situation. Has Revenue prepared an easy guide in that respect? I refer in particular to people who may be moving into nursing home care or hospital care over a long period. In the context of the current housing crisis, constant references have been made to houses that are vacant because a person has gone into hospital or a nursing home in the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revaluation of Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Revenue Commissioners (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: Many of the articles being written about housing refer to large volumes of houses lying empty that could be let to the local authorities for long or short periods or let into the general rental market to help ease the housing shortage. However, as there is a great deal of confusion around the rules people are standing back from doing that. Has the Department of Housing, Planning and Local...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: ...stronger statements in the British House of Commons in the debate when Ms May gave her take on events yesterday. Is the Taoiseach concerned that this tacking backwards and forwards, in a very long British tradition where Ireland is concerned, is significant, and perhaps understandable? What does the Taoiseach feel he needs to do tactically and strategically to address that? There has...

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: ...roughly the same corporation tax rate in Northern Ireland, presumably post-Brexit, as is applied in the South. It has been said in promotional conferences that both parties, when in government over a long period of time, said that when selling the North of Ireland internationally in terms of jobs. The reality of Irish tax planning is that, as with yesterday's discussion and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: ...of the parents and families of 210 children, whose target deadline for surgery was confirmed by the Taoiseach and by the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, to me and other Deputies not too long ago, appears to have been abandoned? This also includes children referred to by the Government in this House who would be facilitated to go abroad, mainly to the UK, to have their...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Joan Burton: ...to earn significantly higher salaries than those of teachers. In Ireland teachers have traditionally started on relatively high salaries, but they then face a salary scale that extends over a long period. I also want to speak briefly about the position of those being recruited at third level. I say this as someone who was a member of the Teachers Union of Ireland for approximately 20...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...? When I served as Minister for Social Protection, I strongly advised against the adoption of a HSE-style constant rotation of officials that means people do not stay in their positions for very long, particularly as they make progress through promotions. When an official is appointed to a particular area, he or she should be able to serve at least three years in that area. It can be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...of people who voted in the referendum in the North? Going back to Enniskillen and Monaghan, Brexit is equally threatening to both towns. It creates the risk of significant job losses over a long period and risks a potential return of a hard border. Following the complete confusion and chaos in government arising from the questions put by my colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly, not being...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ... I understand some officials from the Department and possibly the Revenue Commissioners met people from Christian Aid. It is quite important that the Minister meets them. Ireland is currently on a long campaign to gain a seat at the UN. We have done that successfully in the past, partly because our contribution to the developing world, in terms of development aid, has been very...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: I commend Christian Aid and other development agencies such as Trócaire and Oxfam who have been working over a long period to develop tax justice in the developing world. They are working hard to ensure that taxes are collected, particularly in countries that are resource rich and whose main products are exported without processing. In many developing countries, between corruption and...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...this is very important for every institute of technology. Is the Minister of State suggesting there is a timeline over which she wishes to see this completed? Is there a transition period and how long is it likely to be? Is there a numbers threshold? That might be what affects Athlone. Does it mean, in effect, that unless an institute is in a consortium or group, it will not have a...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...that citizens within that meaning include people who are residents of the area as opposed to some precise constitutional meaning of a passport holder. The institutes of technology have a long tradition of catering for people who are residents of Ireland and who may well one day become citizens. They may be people who have refugee status, leave to remain in Ireland or another status but...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...some extra provision for this category of person. There might be an opportunity to discuss this later, as the Minister of State has agreed to discuss other items. It is a technical area. I worked for a long time as a senior staff member in an institute of technology. I am concerned at the conditions under which some postgraduates are working, their status and the fact that they may have...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Cultural Institutions (14 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister appreciate the sense of crisis which has beset the Gate Theatre and its image, notwithstanding it having had a very long and successful period as a leading theatre in Ireland, and the implications this has for Ireland's reputation, nationally and internationally? What assurance can she give to the thousands of students who are potentially thinking of pursing a career in the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...of corporation tax. 22. The Minister shall within one month from the passing of this Act prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the merits of a minimum effective rate of corporation tax, along the lines of the minimum effective rate of income tax introduced in respect of the taxation of individuals.”. This amendment offers a path to address some of the issues...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...to be of serious concern to the Minister. It ought to be of particular concern because of what is coming down the road post-Brexit and may start within the transition period, as we do not know how long it will be. It is also something that is gnawing at the foundations of democracy. In the long run it is a short-sighted view to try to argue, as the Minister is doing, that we should...