Results 41-60 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Tribunals of Inquiry: Statements. (20 Feb 2004)

Joan Burton: Will it go after the developers?

Probation and Welfare Service. (30 Mar 2004)

Joan Burton: Almost two years ago, the OPW purchased for €1.5 million the old Allied Irish Banks premises on Main Street, Blanchardstown, with the intention of using the building for a probation and welfare service offices for Dublin 15. This move was undertaken without any consultation with local people or local politicians and public representatives. It is not known what type of consultation or...

Probation and Welfare Service. (30 Mar 2004)

Joan Burton: One could imagine what a local school could do with that money.

Probation and Welfare Service. (30 Mar 2004)

Joan Burton: Children are being taught in prefabricated accommodation, not permanent buildings.

Written Answers — Education Issues: Education Issues (30 Mar 2004)

Joan Burton: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the address to the recent Irish Primary Principals Network by a UCD professor, that education is increasingly being treated as a business rather than a public service here; the need for a full public debate on whether market-driven education further disadvantages the disadvantaged; and if he will...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (30 Mar 2004)

Joan Burton: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on recent reports that a growing number of primary schools cannot get applicants for teaching principalships when they are advertised; and that the ratio of applications for principalships has fallen dramatically in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9773/04]

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: It was only a notice.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister give way to a point of order?

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: The Minister should seek advice from his nanny.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: The payment of taxes is not addressed.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: Why did the Government ignore it?

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: They were asylum seekers and now they are non-nationals.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: The Minister is changing his argument.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: The Minister referred to these people previously as asylum seekers, but now he says they are non-nationals. They could be from Lithuania.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister take a question?

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister answer a question?

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: The Minister says he has the facts——

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: I am entitled to ask a question. The Minister said he did not have the facts and now he says he does, but he still has not given them to us. Will he give us the facts? I will give way to the Minister when he answers that question.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: Would the Minister give way?

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Joan Burton: The Minister has cast slurs on Opposition Members because we seek to respect the integrity of our Constitution. The Minister is making it up as he goes along. He is changing his position day by day.