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Recent Flooding: Statements (Resumed) (19 Feb 2014)

Phil Hogan: .... Orange warnings applied to other parts of the country, and these were upgraded as the actual impact of the storm became apparent in the south. The storm caused huge damage. Roofs were torn from buildings; schools and workplaces were forced to close; hundreds of trees were toppled; there were electricity outages to more than 260,000 customers; and water treatment and communications...

Seanad: Youth Guarantee: Statements (5 Feb 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Burton: ...the Senator will agree that it has transformed the social welfare experience. We are converting it into a public employment service. An Intreo-serviced office is a place where people can get income supports, including jobseeker's payments, but it is primarily a place where everybody can be placed on the first step back to work, education or training. I hope this service can be rolled...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Burton: ...unemployed or leaving formal education.” In agreeing this recommendation, the EU accepted that the Guarantee would need to be implemented over a period of time on a phased basis in countries such as Ireland facing very significant fiscal constraints. The development of an implementation plan for the guarantee was led by the Department working with the support of an...

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: ...which I was not familiar. It was alien to me, as a citizen, what that process was about. I looked at it and tried to gain experience in and knowledge of the matter at that end point of the plan coming into effect. My first experience of the connection not only between the local authority officials and developers, but politicians right across the board - it was not only Fianna Fáil...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: ...defined benefit context as it currently stands. Last year, for example, I brought in legislation introducing a risk reserve into defined benefit pension schemes and that legislation was broadly welcomed. The risk reserve is essentially a mechanism to ensure schemes do not take on too much risk and to prevent the same difficulties from arising again. It is worth remembering that the...

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (4 Dec 2013)

Jim Walsh: ...which cost £40 in Irish pounds a year. The decision was not terribly popular but my local council felt that it was the right thing to do. Interestingly, a subsequent Labour Minister removed the water charges in a state of panic when Joe Higgins threatened to take the seat from Joan Burton. Subsequently she lost her seat and water charges were removed. I am not in favour of...

Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...billion in sovereign bonds validly issued by the State and for the Government to unilaterally cease payments on the interest associated with that sovereign debt would be detrimental to the recovery of Ireland and its ability to obtain funding from international financial markets. This approach would jeopardise all the work that has been done so far by the State and the Irish people to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (26 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: ...programme managers from the Department of Education and Skills, Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovation, and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, to review the current range of youth employment policies in Ireland to assess what measures will need to be taken to commence the implementation of the Guarantee. It is intended to produce a concrete plan for the implementation of...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Burton: -----and as the Government charts our course towards a post-recovery Ireland, full employment must be the overarching goal of economic policy. Achieving full employment will be how we will leave austerity in the distant past, increase tax revenue, build a viable social insurance system, reduce welfare expenditure and create room for new investment in essential services. As we recover, we...

Youth Employment: Motion [Private Members] (19 Nov 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

John Lyons: ...is not a bit of passion about the issue at all. It seems Deputies Mac Lochlainn and Crowe were definitely able to speak from experience, which stood out. I speak from experience also, but I believe it is very insulting for a Member to come into the House and pretend to care so much about an issue while having included that issue as a mere addendum in his party’s alternative...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Exchequer. That is sad to see. It is a questionable practice. We must continually consider how our taxation system can capture those who hold moneys, who claim to be Irish citizens, who work in Ireland but conveniently manage to be out of the country long enough to avoid paying tax here. It is a pity that the low rate of corporation tax was not strengthened in this Bill to ensure it is...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Dessie Ellis: ...with honourable exceptions, spouts the arguments of elitist right-wing neoliberalism with gusto, to a level not even heard among most Fine Gael Deputies. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton is a fine example of this. Nowhere can a greater defender of attacks on the poor be found. The Minister for Social Protection is a disgrace to the principles on which the Labour...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: ...to the familiar graduate third-level pathway there will also be a significant vocational, employment and training experience pathway. As a result of the collapse of the apprenticeship system in Ireland, which largely followed the collapse of the building industry, we have relatively few apprentices in many areas. In any event, our apprenticeship structures were largely for young men....

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Joan Burton: -----because the number of people out of work remains far too high, but it confirms that the Government has taken the right measures since coming into office and inheriting an unprecedented crisis. The labour market is improving because of the policies we have pursued, and that is why the economy is healing - slowly but surely. We are exiting the bailout programme and we can look forward to...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: ...of one Labour source, "would have been awful". Another source with perhaps a better command of the language described the Fine Gael proposals as a nightmare list. That was scene 1. Fine Gael was coming along, as usual, to crush the poor in this country. The scene ended, the curtain came down or whatever and everybody was extremely worried but in scene 2, St. Joan of Arc rode in on her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (24 Oct 2013)

Dr. Joan McCarthy: I thank the Chairman and members for inviting me to attend these important hearings. My background is in ethics, in teaching ethics and in researching ethical topics with health professionals in Cork, Ireland and abroad. I will focus on ethical problems and suggest solutions in respect of some of the core issues and ethical challenges I see arising for people involved in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (9 Oct 2013)

Ms Joan McCrohan: We are all in agreement that we want to enhance services for children with additional needs. The needs are very varied and unique to every child. Job security for special needs assistants is crucial and there needs to be an end to casualisation, but I do not think that was addressed today. It is very worrying for special needs assistants. If there was a bit of security...

Seanad: Irish Sign Language: Motion (9 Oct 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: ...to do first. Some countries have signed and ratified it, but they are now being held to account for not putting in place the necessary structures to implement what is included in the convention. Ireland has adopted a more sensible approach and is putting the necessary structures in place before ratifying the convention. That is why the capacity legislation is vitally important. It is...

Seanad: Pathways to Work Strategy: Statements (25 Sep 2013)

Joan Burton: ...than deeply concerned about it. Finally, the figures have begun to move in the right direction. That progress and momentum is important. Once there is a start in the right direction, confidence builds confidence and builds expansion. In regard to young people, Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh suggested that as many as one in four young are unemployed. That is not true. Many young...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised)
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland (Revised) (9 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: ...don Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta, a chur i láthair. Members of the committee will be aware that my Department oversees the conservation, preservation, protection, development and presentation of Ireland’s heritage and culture. My Department also promotes the Irish language, supports the Gaeltacht and assists the sustainable development of island...