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Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: ...less substantial, from householders every year, at least until the end of 2018, at which point we do not know how much the bill will spiral. Over €1 billion has already been raised for Irish Water and there is much more to come. The lack of transparency is quite extraordinary. We do not have any transparency on how much the State has paid to Siteserv, which was sold to...

Seanad: Report of Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas: Statements (19 Nov 2014)

John Kelly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, who is a colleague of mine. I concur with my colleague, Senator Landy, that the Minister of State had a lot to do and very little time in which to do it. I agree with colleagues who suggest that €1 million funding for her project is not sufficient and she should look for more. Towns in Roscommon were very badly hit as a result of the...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: ...Social Welfare Bill by normal standards, it none the less marks a positive shift in our economic and social recovery. That recovery is now clear to see. According to the European Commission, Ireland will be the fastest-growing economy in the EU this year, with our growth rate expected to hit 4.6% compared with an average of just 1.3% for other member states. Last month the Government...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...impossible position of trying to do more with less. The budget does nothing to address the crisis in the health service and this failure will have negative consequences for patients across the State in time to come. The chronic housing crisis will continue. Huge numbers of families remain in mortgage arrears and rents continue to rise out of control in the absence of Government...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...the most vulnerable in society. People with life-limiting conditions had their medical cards torn from them. Today's budget does not mark an end of austerity in health. Indeed, we will see more of the same in the coming year. Our hospitals and health services will once again be forced to do more with less. The consequences will felt in inpatient care and well-being throughout the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (1 Oct 2014)

...disability are five times more likely to be at risk of poverty. Families where the head of the household is not at work due to illness or disability experienced an 11.3% drop in their disposable income in the period 2010 to 2012. Therefore there is a need for the Government and the Departments involved here today to use this budget to deliver on their pre-election commitment to protect...

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2014)

Michael Kitt: ...shortage in the private sector. We are falling way behind on the estimated 25,000 units needed per annum. We hope the Government will, as the Minister has undertaken to do, implement a new home building programme through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, transfer National Asset Management Agency units into social housing, develop housing associations and encourage sustainable levels...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Joan Burton: ...overview of some of the structural reforms to the Department since I became Minister and to quickly go through the key points in the briefing in order to inform and begin our discussions. I welcome the views of members and and look forward to their engagement and our discussion. The service traditionally provided by the Department of Social Protection in providing income supports has...

Public Health (Standard Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2014)

Peter Mathews: ...school classes. Cigarette and pipe smoking has been an accepted behavioural pattern in society for more than 100 years. Compare this with asbestos, which was the accepted way of insulating buildings in the 1960s and 1970s. Asbestos had its own brands and trademark names, but as soon as it was discovered that it could cause asbestosis, a form of cancer that developed many years after...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...reduce overall welfare expenditure, the safety net has been protected and maintained. This year, we will spend an estimated €19.6 billion on social welfare. Research has consistently shown that Ireland's system of social transfers is among the best in the EU in terms of preventing poverty. The best long-term protection against poverty is, of course, fairly paid and secure work....

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...The time available between the publication of Bill and progressing through the Oireachtas is, therefore, dictated by when the annual budget is announced, and when the various budgetary measures are to come into force. As has been said in recent years, these time pressures have been eased somewhat by bringing the budget day back to mid-October, at the latest, instead of early December....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...It is able to look across other countries. From a micro-examination of what we are doing, it sees trends and patterns, and that is helpful. Before the Government came into office, and particularly before Joan Burton came to the Department of Social Protection, the OECD had said for many years that we did not have sufficient labour market activation within our welfare system. It said that...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...finances in check. Research conducted by the Economic and Social Research Institute, in tandem with my Department, and published last December shows that approximately 87% of all households in Ireland receive social transfers, such as jobseekers' payments, pensions and child benefit. We pay child benefit in respect of every child, we have a strong support system for those unfortunate...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (13 Mar 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Phil Hogan: ...and making an important contribution to economic and physical regeneration, social and community development and environmental protection. I have led an extremely ambitious programme of reform since coming to office, with a major focus on strengthening our democratic system, improving the environment and ensuring effective and efficient services for the public. We have put people first....

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: ...reiterated that point in their contributions. The Bill will bring the Vote of the HSE, which was established under the Health Act 2004, into the Vote of the Office of the Minister for Health. It builds on the Health Service Executive (Governance) Act, which was passed by the Oireachtas last year and designed to improve the HSE's level of accountability. It is not, as Deputy Kelleher...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: ...time with the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes. I am pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this debate on the Government's priorities for the year ahead. I acknowledge and welcome the presence in the Chamber of the Sinn Féin parliamentary spokesperson on education and skills. When we entered government, I spoke about how Fianna Fáil had lost our economic...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)

Ivana Bacik: ...again to organise a debate on Ukraine. At the moment, things are at a very difficult stage. I commend the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore, for calling in the Russian ambassador yesterday to make clear Ireland's view that a peaceful resolution is essential. Anyone who saw the extraordinary footage last night of the unarmed Ukrainian soldiers bravely confronting heavily armed Russian troops...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Burton: ...sustained creation of jobs can we enhance their prospects, prosperity and participation. Three years on, I can report that we are on the right road. The troika has checked out for the last time; Ireland has exited the bailout; the economy is growing again and, crucially, we are getting people back to work. In the year to the end of December, employment increased by 61,000 or 3.3%, to...

Seanad: Economic Growth and Job Creation: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Michael Noonan: ...will know, the situation was very bad, businesses went bust, property prices declined, the banks went bust, hundreds of thousands lost their jobs, and others emigrated so we have a long way back to come. We are out of the bailout but we have a huge amount of work to do yet. I would hate if any kind of feeling emerged that because we were out of the bailout that we had succeeded or that...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: ...outside Dublin for something that is affordable. Calls from constituents are more frequent following the introduction of the rent assessment scheme as people are finding that their landlord is coming back to sell the home. They have been advised to hold on to the leases because they have nowhere else to go in Dublin because of rent increases. In the past three months in the Dublin 8...