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Seanad: Promoting a Sustainable Future for the Post Office Network: Statements (4 Jul 2013)

Pat Rabbitte: ...can make significant savings in switching customers to online channels and many are aggressively doing so. An Post has responded to these changes and, to be fair to the company, the network has come a long way in the past ten years. The investment in computerisation has broadened the range of services which can be offered to customers and increased the number of organisations which are...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: ...is working very well and the social welfare inspectors at the airports have undertaken a significant amount of work in questioning people, with the result that a number of those cases already have come before the courts. Some involve people from abroad who lived in Ireland and then return even though they have gone back to live abroad. Others have involved Irish people who have gone...

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: ...in sectors such as retail and services, which feel the brunt of any reduction in demand. It is crucial, therefore, that an effective strategy is in place to tackle youth unemployment before it becomes prolonged and systemic. In the first instance, the Government's primary strategy to reduce youth unemployment is to create the environment for a strong economic recovery by promoting...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: ...working for a living wage. That is the system to which we are changing. The Deputy's suggestion is that it is very harsh. I do not think he is suggesting that entirely, because he said he welcomes people going back to work. As a society we have to build a child care system to reflect the kind of systems we would like to see. We have to move away from a completely passive social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (11 Jun 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...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: ...of the total number of such pensions in payment. That is what I want Members to reflect on. Considerable work has been done on this issue and I will bring proposals to Government, in the light of the outcome from the funding standard and the consultations under way with the Attorney General on the appropriate policy response to the Waterford Crystal situation. As I stated earlier, my...

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...