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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...of trees and wildlife. In north County Dublin and, presumably, a lot of north Leinster, the EU is paying farmers to cut down hedgerows to make these very large fields, thereby completely destroying a significant percentage of the hedgerows, which are natural biodiversity corridors because, as has been stated, we do not have massive indigenous forests. We hope to have these but we do not...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Economic and Social Council (11 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...paid with money, mobile phones, the latest runners and other shoes and so on. Has the Government used or considered using the NESC to bring in a variety of people to talk to it about how drugs are destroying many communities in this city and other areas? The greater Blanchardstown area, which the Taoiseach and I represent, as well as the adjacent areas of Finglas and Cabra, are suffering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Retention of Records Bill 2019: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ...supplementary question. Perhaps Ms Crowe might be able to answer it. The threat to people who are in government was that if there is not some legislation like this, the imperative would be to destroy the records. There has been a genuine fear on the part of many, given what people with particular views in this area have done in the past. Does Ms Crowe think realistically that today, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...the people who formulated it. It is based on approaches that have existed in other jurisdictions with which I am familiar. Many of the people in the group in Bank of Ireland have been destroyed by the failure to obtain redress. They are going from one group of people to another, including the bank itself and its mortgage support team, which sounds like a slightly ironic title. These...

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (29 May 2019)

Joan Burton: ...Government policy of supporting the retention of hedgerows. We have had a discussion on the disastrous fires that occurred over Easter in the Killarney region where many thousands of acres were destroyed. The Minister indicated at the time that she had no idea who was responsible, but there is a lot of local knowledge and again it is about working out with the farming community and...

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (29 May 2019)

Joan Burton: ...to Dublin, cycle through the park and really enjoy it. The Minister's plans include more retail and the provision of a visitor experience for people from cruise ships. I ask her to be careful not to destroy the thing that attracts the visitors from home and abroad in the first place. She should err on the side of caution and consultation. The report was launched just after St....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gorse Burning (8 May 2019)

Joan Burton: 1621. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the recent gorse fires that destroyed hundreds of acres of land around the villages of Loughanure and Annagry, County Donegal; her plans to carry out an evaluation of the destruction of flora, fauna and wildlife as a consequence of these fires; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (17 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...immediate aftermath of the shootings. Will he take a leaf out of New Zealand's book and try to remove guns from Irish society so that our society will not be worn down, exploited and, possibly, destroyed by the drugs trade in terms of the gun violence that it is bringing to the streets of all our major cities and, particularly, the areas he and I represent? Will he establish a special...

Retention of Records Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Joan Burton: ...that, the revelations of sexual abuse gradually came out. This is the background to the Bill. When I was in government, I recall advising the then Taoiseach that in no circumstances should the records be destroyed, that they are the lived history of all the people who lived in the institutions. I therefore welcome the Bill. At that point, however, the key was to ensure that the...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: .... It just does not exist in Ireland. It is all over the place in different little bits of legislation and planning regulations. When somebody is seriously affected by noise it can literally destroy his or her life. I ask the Minister to take that into account and to accept some of the very sensible amendments that are being offered.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (14 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: ...to a wide variety of businesses and ventures, particularly those involving adults or children engaging any kind of physical activity, to the point where such businesses and ventures are being destroyed? I am inundated with messages from people saying that this coming year may potentially be their last year in business. It seems this is being managed with the same degree of competence as...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: ...was organising it, call the shots on that? There needs to be a re-evaluation. During the first papal visit to Ireland years ago, there were none of these holding pens and gates. For many, these destroyed the visit because where a family booked four tickets, they got one ticket for one gate, a ticket for another gate and a further ticket for yet another gate. The park walls, as I am...

Sale of Illicit Goods Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2018)

Joan Burton: ...for many retail businesses in Ireland for selling goods and making a living, yet due to the illicit trade, especially along the Border, many people's livelihoods effectively will be wiped out, destroyed or reduced to a feebleness that means their long-term viability is at stake. The Bill proposes to cause a shock to consumers because should they be involved in the purchase of illicit...

Genuine Progress Indicators and National Distributional Accounts Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: ...Bear Stearns and when the writing was on the wall for the casino capital model of Anglo Irish Bank. However, the problem was not confined to Anglo Irish Bank. Like a horror movie, it went on to destroy the rest of the banks and the Irish economy. What was the outcome of the St. Patrick's Day massacre? Not too long after it, Bertie Ahern announced that he was going to stand down as...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: ..., was avid for PPPs. The reason is that in that era, as the Minister knows well, the Government could not raise tuppence anywhere because we inherited a situation in 2011 where our credit had been destroyed and the Government was constrained by the troika, under an agreement with the previous Government, to very difficult terms and conditions. However, we are in a different era now. We...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: ...talked to many people who did what one could only have expected them to do in the circumstances, which was to get the boat to pagan England. In those days it was a boat for the most part. They began again lives which had been interrupted completely and, in many cases, destroyed by what an authoritarian Catholic Church, together with the Oireachtas, had visited on women as the standards...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: ...harrowing stories from parents who have told me about suicides, depression and the destruction of somebody who was once lively, positive and strong but who has been really damaged and in some cases, destroyed by what has happened. Fergus Finlay and Barnardos have run courses around the country. I note that many schools are now utilising home-school liaison teachers to take up the...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: ...the pain and suffering. I am not saying the eighth amendment caused that but the eighth amendment and the narrow and censorious attitude towards women who had children out of wedlock effectively destroyed much of their lives and the lives of the children were restricted unless they were lucky enough to find a good foster home or a good adoptive home. That happened for many people,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (14 Dec 2016)

Joan Burton: ...with other issues in different countries. The Taoiseach is a prominent member of the EPP and is one of the longest-surviving Prime Ministers in that group. However, the EPP appears to be hell-bent on destroying the concept of a European Union based on solidarity, economic progress and supporting countries when they encounter difficulties. Has he had discussions on the future of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: ...? Will he have the Cabinet sub-committee responsible meet at 8.30 a.m. next Monday or Tuesday and ask the five Ministers, who have advisers and assistants, to deal with this? Morale is being destroyed in the health services due to the lack of answers. Where is health in the list of Supplementary Estimates? Will we have an Estimate for it by the end of the year?