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Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...Some, for instance, experienced homelessness due to a disastrous fire in an apartment block almost two years ago. People experience homelessness for a variety of different circumstances. Some have come to Ireland as immigrants from other countries and they are simply not in or able to get into the housing system. Teachers in the schools have been doing their level best to support and...

Period Poverty: Motion (13 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: ...would like to say that I support the Private Members' motion put forward by the Women's Caucus. It is a positive motion and I have signed it. The points that have been made by Plan International Ireland are quite stark, but they are nothing new for a lot of women and men in our society. Nearly half of teenage girls across Ireland struggle to afford sanitary products during their...

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Byrne: ...; 14 per cent of young Europeans (15–34 years) used cannabis in the last year; — the EU early warning system for new drugs monitored 670 new psychoactive substances by the end of 2017, up from 300 in 2013; — in Ireland 26 per cent of the population aged 15 years or over reported using an illegal drug in their lifetime, with cannabis the most widely used (Drug...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Given the scale of this particular project, there would appear to be relatively few contractors in Ireland who could bid for it. It seems to me that the contractors are able to call the shots on variations, although Mr. Watt has said that they will have to prove their case. Is there an effective cartel in operation among a chosen group of contractors? The Taoiseach was in Lisbon last week...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: ...the bank guarantee, NAMA, the collapse of the banks and the working out of that. I was part of the Government that had to take up the reins of a mess when Fianna Fáil walked off the pitch and left Government Buildings practically in darkness. We had to pick up the pieces. In particular after 2013, year after year, as Minister for Social Protection, I had to see money from the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: ...City Council to go on the housing waiting list, although she will be at the end of a long queue. Can the Taoiseach imagine being in that situation? What can he offer this woman for the future under Rebuilding Ireland? In my constituency two recent planning applications have been submitted to An Bord Pleanála under the strategic housing development strategy to build apartments,...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Film, whether for cinema, television or small personal screens, is probably the most popular cultural activity, not only in Ireland but also on the planet. In that sense, having a screen or film industry in Ireland is very important in terms of the country's capacity to respond in cultural terms to the modern world and modern life. Almost every European country, and most other countries,...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Brexit is without doubt the biggest disrupter and challenge to Ireland, North and South, since the building, construction and banking collapse of 2008. So much has been spoken and written about it that many people are weary of this convoluted and complex discussion. The document presented by Mr. Barnier and his team represents one of the better possibilities for Ireland, or the least worst....

African Development (Bank and Fund) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: ...As Africa, hopefully, enters a period of renaissance continent-wide, we must interrogate what this Bill proposes to do for, and in partnership with, it. Will it represent a positive development in Ireland's relationship with Africa or will it turn our development co-operation programme and Irish Aid into a more exploitative relationship with the continent? Rather than the people, the...

Apprenticeships: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: ...major employer to recommence electrical apprenticeships on a wide scale. There was a high level of interest throughout the country from young men and women from all walks of life and every part of Ireland who sought to become apprentices. In the case of the skilled trades, including sparks, it is obvious that what has happened in Austria and Germany is now happening in Ireland. If a...

Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (25 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: ...discovered the official records showing that 798 infants and children had died at the site of the mother and baby home in Tuam, we have taken a rather long road to this point. Nonetheless I welcome the Minister's statement and I hope it addresses some of the issues for people who have lived to tell the tale and build their own lives but also for their families. In particular I welcome...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (24 Oct 2018)

Michael McDowell: It is a great honour for me to be able to participate in this tribute to the late Maurice Hayes and to do so in particular in the presence of his family, including his wife, Joan, his daughters, Clodagh, Margaret and Dara, and his sons, Garrett and Ronan, as well as their extended families and connections who are in the House today. Maurice Hayes was born in 1927 in Killough in County Down....

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: ...a step forward in the year of the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote. Countess Markievicz said she devoted her life to trying to ensure that women got freedom and equality, particularly and obviously in Ireland. She also joined causes with women throughout the world. It is important for us to use the knowledge and learning gained by women around the world to pursue a broad...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

...to bring the committee through the proposals in a little depth. That is needed because if automatic enrolment is introduced, it will fundamentally reform the provision of supplementary pensions in Ireland. That will not just be for now but for generations to come and for the broader population. It is a significant reform, probably the most fundamental reform of pensions policy in a...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: It says 5% in the budget booklet. That is modest because schools are being put to the pin of their collars to meet their running costs. If it is an older school building such as an old parish school, it is very likely that it is not well insulated against heat loss and consequently, that its heating costs are very expensive. I mention the living wage and in that context I wish to look...

Children's Health Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Joan Collins is on her way; she is at another meeting. I am happy to speak on this Bill, which seeks to provide for the enhancement of children's health services and to establish a body that will be known as Children's Health Ireland to plan and deliver paediatric services. Goodness knows that development is needed in that area and we know that the saga of the new children's hospital...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...It is being paid in in tranches on the basis of an agreed schedule. I do not know why it is not part of the Exchequer returns. I will ask the Minister for Finance to provide an answer for Deputy Joan Burton in that respect. I am sure there is a good reason, but I honestly do not know what it is. Ireland is not a tax haven and we do not want it to be one. We certainly do not want...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Joan Burton: ...to Deputy Penrose's contribution, I am very disappointed in the report in regard to the development of a community banking system. Such a system is essential for continuing development in rural Ireland and disadvantaged communities in urban areas because both have difficulty in having banks like AIB and Bank of Ireland take any real interest in the community. It seems there is a very...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Banking (5 Jul 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this important issue, namely, the necessity of developing a model or system to provide a local banking system in Ireland. I am glad to see Deputy Joan Burton in the House because she has been a strong advocate in that regard and done a lot of work on the issue. The report by the Department of Rural and Community Development on this...

Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: ...that no family would be in a hotel or bed and breakfast by 1 July last year has been a failure. By the Government's own standards it has been failure. How ironic that statements are now coming from hotels that they will have to move out homeless families when the Pope comes over. No room at the inn in our so-called republic. According to the ISPCC, one in three homeless people are...