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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (15 May 2013)

Joan Burton: ...internships, but the objective in all cases will be to lead the young person to employment placement or further education or training. A particular focus of the pilot YGS will be to involve, and build links with, employers in the locality and the immediate hinterland in order to ensure that the guidance and training elements of the YGS are tailored to the needs of the local labour market...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)

Michael Kitt: ...Cowen for allowing me some of his time. I welcome the Bill. As Deputy Cowen noted, similar legislation was introduced in 2009 by a Fianna Fáil Government and this Bill, which is technical, will build on that legislation. It gives us an opportunity to look at the whole situation, namely, the big housing waiting list, estimated to be 100,000 people on local authority lists waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (30 Apr 2013)

Joan Burton: ...: Ensure that all young people under the age of 25 years receive a good-quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education. While it is recommended that the guarantee should be implemented as soon as possible, it is recognised that implementation will be more gradual in the...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Michael Conaghan: Coming out of the recession in the 1980s successive Governments focused their attentions on building a broad-based sustainable economy. That approach was best exemplified by the rainbow coalition of the 1990s with the Labour Party Minister for Finance, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, at the helm. However, in 14 years of power Fianna Fáil deconstructed this model at the bidding of their...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Michael Conaghan: Coming out of the recession in the 1980s successive Governments focused their attentions on building a broad-based sustainable economy. That approach was best exemplified by the rainbow coalition of the 1990s with the Labour Party Minister for Finance, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, at the helm. However, in 14 years of power Fianna Fáil deconstructed this model at the bidding of their...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2013)

Richard Bruton: ...;ireann” and substitute the following:“acknowledges the Government's recent achievements in:— renegotiating the EU/IMF bailout to cut interest payments and free up investments for stimulus; — reducing Ireland's borrowing needs by €20 billion over the coming decade by securing a restructuring of the promissory notes to creditors in Anglo Irish and Irish...

Seanad: Early Intervention and Economic Benefits: Statements (6 Mar 2013)

Katherine Zappone: ...as she has stated previously, some things did not work. However others are working and I hope to see in the strategy a commitment to begin to implement and invest, not necessarily in every site in Ireland, but in those that have been demonstrated to work. Will the strategy name the systems to be developed to enable schools, the new agency to be established by the Minister, community,...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Simon Harris: ...must allow a training place to translate into a job interview and a job interview into a job. In establishing SOLAS, Seirbhísí Oideachais Leanunaigh agus Scileanna, we are undertaking to build a more efficient, effective and better focused structure that will ensure the maximum amount possible from a budget of almost €1 billion will reach those who need it and be freed...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...incomes hardest. The abolition of the cost of education allowance of €300 will affect the unemployed and lone parents especially. In addition, there is a cut of €325 in the respite care grant. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, presided over all of these cuts. She initiated all of them and cannot blame Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the troika or anyone...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: .... Water services in a number of cities in Germany were privatised but as a result of voting in the local authority areas they have been taken back under public control. The major problems in Northern Ireland are a clear indication of the difficulties private companies experience in trying to deal with severe problems that may arise. The big freeze in 2010 was referred to by a number of...

Energy Security and Climate Change Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: ...are expensive and are becoming more expensive. They understand this because it is having an impact on their budgets on a weekly basis. In the credit union reports produced quarterly , this issue comes up repeatedly as being a major source of concern. Deputy Kevin Humphreys stated he was committed to working with all parties and none. I completely take this at face value and it is...

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Joan Burton: ...reason that we have protected core social welfare rates in successive budgets. It is also for this reason that our rates are so far in excess of the current rates and proposed future rates in Northern Ireland, of which we should be conscious. Those who defraud the system do so without thought of the consequences for others. At a time when resources are scarce and every euro of spending...

Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)

...24 and substitute the following:"TO PROVIDE FOR MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS RELATING TO CREDIT UNIONS; TO AMEND THE CENTRAL BANK ACTS 1942 TO 2011, TO PROVIDE FOR CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND AND OVERSEAS REGULATORS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF AUTHORISED OFFICERS BY THE CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND; AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS RELATED TO THE FOREGOING". Seanad amendment...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...heard from the Opposition is fairytale economics. As for Fianna Fáil, there is no such thing as BC or AD as history begins in March 2011. As for Sinn Féin, what it does in government in Northern Ireland has absolutely no bearing on what its Members say down here and for the Technical Group, arithmetic is an imperialist plot. We would all love to go back in time and to start...

National Children's Hospital: Motion (8 Nov 2012)

Billy Kelleher: ...of the sub-specialties that are required in the area of paediatric care. Some specialties remain dependent on the expertise of the adult teaching hospitals. There must be a clear focus on building up capacity between the three existing hospitals to ensure there is sufficient expertise and specialisation to operate the new facility effectively. I am not seeking to inject negativity into...

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2012)

Joan Collins: ...adults have less than €25 to spend each week when they have paid their essential bills. This does not taken account of the fact that electricity, gas and food bills are all going to increase in the coming months. The recent bad weather experienced across the globe has had an adverse effect on the agricultural sector and this is going to lead to the increase in food prices to which...

Statutory Sick Pay: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...this process, according to the Minister, Deputy Burton’s idea of consultation, began in 2011. She floated the idea ahead of last year’s budget and it is still floating around prior to the forthcoming budget. She had formal meetings in February and it is now the end of October, coming into November. The biggest issue facing business at the moment, among all the other...

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (24 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...record highs. There was no clearly defined vision for the country, the situation was bleak and the people were bereft of hope. From the outset, the task of the Government has been to regain control over Ireland's fiscal and economic policies, grow the economy again and get people back to work. Since taking office the Government has been addressing each of these challenges in a...

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to come back to the House next Wednesday evening, if this is in order, because I will then be able to have detailed replies on specific issues Members may wish to raise. Otherwise, my responses today would be very general. Now that I see Professor Mirrlees in the Visitors Gallery, I would like to say that in Ireland social welfare plays an enormous stimulus role in terms of demand....

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to come back to the House next Wednesday evening, if this is in order, because I will then be able to have detailed replies on specific issues Members may wish to raise. Otherwise, my responses today would be very general. Now that I see Professor Mirrlees in the Visitors Gallery, I would like to say that in Ireland social welfare plays an enormous stimulus role in terms of demand....