Results 19,901-19,920 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Protection (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: The Department is in receipt of a complaint regarding the issue raised by the Deputy and is currently examining the matter. All allegations are taken extremely seriously; displacement of existing workers by JobBridge interns is not allowed under the terms and conditions of the JobBridge scheme, is a flagrant abuse of the scheme and is not a practice that can be condoned. Any host...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Protection (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: I have just outlined for the Deputy an extensive set of measures that are in place. In view of the fact that more than 13,000 people who have taken part in JobBridge, the number of complaints received have been extremely low in number. Where we have found that there is good cause to the complaint, as I told the Deputy, 15 host organisations have been excluded from further participation in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Protection (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: I want to reassure the Deputy that we have an extensive system of monitoring in place, which the Deputy will find on the JobBridge site. I do not want to comment on the detail of the case, although the Deputy has made many allegations. I have asked an official of the Department to examine the complaints that have been made. We have had to go back to the organisation about which the Deputy...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Protection (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: Even in Trotskyite politics it is possible-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Protection (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: I have every respect for them. That is why we have had 13,000 people successfully taking part in this scheme. As I told the Deputy, where allegations are made we take them extremely seriously. We are taking what the Deputy said extremely seriously but he must appreciate that we have to investigate whether the complaint is well-founded.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Protection (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has a letter from an individual. It concerns a company which, as he said, is in some kind of contractual relationship with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. It is appropriate to give an opportunity for the matter to be examined. I do not want to say anything else about the specific case, for reasons I believe the Deputy would appreciate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: At the outset I want to put on record that the Government fully recognises that the domiciliary care allowance, DCA, scheme represents a very important support to parents and guardians who live with and care for children with a disability. Likewise, the disability allowance, DA, represents an important income support to people who are unfit for work. In this context I am pleased that two...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: It is difficult to find money in the challenging economic situation left to us by the Deputy’s party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: However, I have found nearly €50 million for special needs payments. The Deputy can scoff all he likes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has a cheek.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: This year the Department of Social Protection will spend €20.3 billion. That is a figure with a lot of noughts in case Deputy Willie O’Dea had not noticed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: It comes from hard-working taxpayers’ tax and PRSI payments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: I will not apologise to the Deputy for having to make a decision to target that budget of €20.3 billion as best I can among older people, parents with children-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: -----and the 250,000 people who, unfortunately, lost their jobs owing to Fianna Fáil’s policies after 2008.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: We are getting people back to work.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: Some 250,000 jobs were lost under Fianna Fáil.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: On the other hand, we are getting people back to work. Under Fianna Fáil, 250,000 jobs were lost.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: For the first time since 2008, we have got considerable numbers of people back to work.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has his legacy and has to live with it.