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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: Deputy Doherty spoke about the consultation I initiated with the Minister. There is a great deal of bogus self-employment in Ireland and it is not helpful to the long-term sustainable growth of the Irish economy not to review our systems with a view to limiting this. It is pervasive in other areas, too. Has the Minister received any report on the outcome of Revenue's examination? Many...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: ...carried. This Bill, which was drafted in conjunction with the Right2Water campaign, does not belong to me or to any other politician or political party. It belongs to people in communities across Ireland, as does the water it protects. The Bill’s progress thus far is a reflection of the power of a movement, the largest in the history of the State, and one in which many of us in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: .... This will swallow the entire amount of the relief. I know Deputy Michael McGrath has cited other anecdotal evidence from around the country. It has already done, in limited cases, what Deputy Joan Burton described. A potential house buyer might have had access to €300,000. They get a free €10,000 from the State from the scheme. Suddenly, the property goes up by...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I am very glad that we helped to persuade the Government to give them that break. I also welcome the increases for those of working age. However, nothing has yet been done about the averaging system for pensions. This was a particular measure introduced by the previous Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, and it has given rise to a situation where a person who enters the...

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the form of the housing assistance payment scheme, and €137 million was provided in the form of the rental allowance scheme. Some €200 million was provided in infrastructure grants to private developers for building private, for-profit housing. Of course, €50 million was provided through the help-to-buy scheme, as referred to in this Bill. In addition, the interest...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Tommy Broughan: ...planning process. Failure to implement the Kenny report of 1974 allowed the hoarding of huge land banks around the greater Dublin region and similar practices around other cities and towns in Ireland. When development plans came along, councils were subjected to immense pressures. Councils used to be in charge of water before Deputy O'Sullivan's party was in Government. We were the...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Collins: ...he did not know what he would do with such a bonanza. He said he might go and have a pint to think about it, but then the bonanza would be spent and probably well before he was due to get it anyway. I welcome the increase in the old age pension, along with the increases in the welfare payments, but they are absolutely pitiful compared to what is needed. I note the Minister for...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (29 Sep 2016)

Enda Kenny: ...an cuireadh a thabhairt dom an tseachtain seo. Cuirim fáilte roimh na sean-Seanadóirí agus na Seanadóirí nua atá anseo. As Members are aware, this Government is unlike any other established in Ireland since the foundation of the State. It required a completely new approach based on consultation and building consensus towards a new vision for our people....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

Leo Varadkar: .... We also have a capital budget, but this is very small. Expenditure to the end of August was just short of €13 billion and is very close to target for the year to date. We more or less expect to come in on budget. Each week, approximately 1.37 million people, including pensioners, people with disabilities, people on sick leave, those on maternity leave - and, since this week,...

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: ...their children just to secure a school place for them. We would, I hope, find this offensive, from both a religious and a secular perspective, yet most of us, certainly from the Dublin area, have come across these cases. Most, if not all, Members agree that local children should have access to their local schools because they serve as the centre of our communities. As society becomes...

Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: ...crisis by the European Union. The response is very technical and narrow and is focused on the banking sector. As the Minister of State said, the Bill is technical in nature. I will focus on Ireland rather than other countries. I refer to Professor John FitzGerald and a recent ESRI study. It found that during the economic crisis the main features of the Irish welfare system were...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...were ganging up on her. This is the third contribution to be made by a Deputy who represents a Limerick constituency. I am pleased to participate in the debate on this important subject. I welcome the reduction in the rate of unemployment, which stood at 15% when my party joined the last Government but now stands at less than 8%. In addition to focusing on the decrease in the rate...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Joan Collins: ...keep my contribution fairly succinct. The problem is that social housing has not really been addressed here. All of the discussion is directed towards private financing for private developers to build houses that will probably cost between €300,000 and €350,000. People cannot access housing in that price range and we have not really come to the nub of how to address this....

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Joan Burton: ...More than €34 million has been provided to deliver 640 new vehicles for the force. My colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, ensured a €160 million programme to build new Garda stations as well as to refurbish and upgrade existing ones. That is in addition to significant and important investment in the IT infrastructure for the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)

...recently who I am sure will give the information to the committee first hand today - there could be a cost of up to €21,000 in financing a €300,000 home. That is crazy, assuming that the builder has to borrow everything, which is probably the position in most cases. The builder goes to the bank for the figure of 60%, but he also has to seek mezzanine capital or go to...

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: The stability programme update, SPU, document tells a positive story of remarkable change and of challenge which has yet to be overcome. In April 2011, shortly after the Labour Party entered government, that year's SPU told a grim story. It spoke of a critical need to try to get the public finances into some kind of order, of ensuring the sustainability of the Government's debt position, of...

EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: ...an iron fist in Spain and another dictator called Salazar ruled in Portugal while a group of colonels took over Greece and snuffed out democracy. The EU has been an essential force not just in building peace but in spreading democracy. Similarly, it has been an essential force not just in promoting prosperity but equality and human rights. It was the EU which put equal pay and other...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...five years I have spent in here, I have watched things getting progressively worse rather than better. This week, the members of the Independents 4 Change group - myself and Deputies Clare Daly, Joan Collins, Tommy Broughan, Catherine Connolly and Thomas Pringle - introduced a motion to the House. I will give the background to it. Our motion proposes:That Dáil...

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Peter Mathews: ...the so-called genius trick of our Minister for Finance to extend the promissory note of ten to 12 years into a long-dated promissory bond. He had no business doing that. On 18 February next, I hope Deputy Joan Collins will be vindicated in the Supreme Court. The Minister for Finance put the people on the line for €31 billion, at the time, without even legislation being passed in...

Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: I welcome the opportunity to speak on recent developments in Northern Ireland and the successful completion of the recent talks. The Irish Government and the Labour Party have welcomed the agreement that has been reached. I pay tribute to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan, the Minister of State responsible for North–South co-operation, Deputy Sean...