Results 1-20 of 2,511 for long speaker:Joan Burton

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...the Government of which we were both members did. It did quite a lot, including extending the Luas line to Broombridge. That project was championed by the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and me over a long period of time. When will the capacity of the railway lines increase, given that can only come about if they are electrified? It would also enable significant numbers of houses to be built...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...the Asthma Society of Ireland that there is an asthma epidemic in this country, yet the Taoiseach is sitting on his hands when it comes to the issue of smoky coal and is finding a phony reason to long-finger it. Why does the Taoiseach not reassemble and recall the Citizens' Assembly on climate change to get it to say what the people of Ireland want? The assembly also recommended the...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...not be aware that institutions like hospices typically have a major raffle each year with a car as the prize. I have had a significant involvement with my local hospice in Blanchardstown over a long period of time. This kind of prize easily reaches the kind of value that has been mentioned by the Minister of State. Everybody in the community buys an expensive ticket as a way of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services Provision (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ..., Professor Fergal Malone, have outlined, such as, for example, the dangers for newborn babies and babies who require intensive care. With the Blanchardstown project now seemingly placed on the long finger and with the facilities in the Rotunda getting older, more worn and increasingly overcrowded by the day, there have been several serious outbreaks of infection. There has been harm...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ...the Minister is locked into the problem of the banks' enormous losses forward, the basis for which I am unaware. Is there a country that allows this kind of continuous losses forward over a very long period? We are in year 11 since the bank crash. Those losses started to be built up from 2007. We are talking about 12 year old losses and banks that in some cases have profits in the...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ...Budgetary Oversight and its officials, because it has an official status to carry out these reports and be clearly enabled to do so by the Department of Finance and other relevant Departments. I have a long-standing Private Member's Bill before the Dáil, which I would be delighted if the Government would take over, to establish a standing commission on taxation. It would examine...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ...theory is that the ships not in use are meant to be in dry dock for repairs. I do not think that is true. Repairs are indeed ongoing, but some of the ships appear to have been tied up for a very long time. There is also the fact that personnel in the Army and Air Corps also go on missions to different areas. Many of those missions take place under the auspices of international bodies...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: .... While Mr. Michel was anxious to state that the EU was ready to negotiate a free trade agreement with the UK, it also wants to promote a level playing field. Has the Taoiseach a sense of how long such a free trade agreement would take to negotiate? There are many suggestions going around that much of this agreement could be done in a year, but international experience suggests that it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I wish to remind the Minister that long before there was a VAT regime, women in Dublin maternity hospitals who were either pregnant or post-partum were universally given a glass of Guinness. Why? It was because there was deemed to be iron in the Guinness. I am unsure whether there was. The Revenue is simply not taking account of the changes taking place at the moment. From a commercial...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ...levy to continue. In that sense, I will be voting in favour of the section. However, it is entirely inadequate. Essentially, the banks can avoid corporation tax contributions for a further very long period of time, bearing in mind that in some cases their profits have moved above the €1 billion mark. The provision proposed, the aim of which is simply to maintain the levy at its...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ...that in the aftermath of the bank crash that the banks incurred mega losses but in many cases, those losses are sitting there and they mean the banks will not make any financial contribution for a very long period. This stance by the Government has led to the banks becoming more and more arrogant. Bankers now feel they are seriously underpaid, under-rewarded and under-remunerated -...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: I am one of the few women who speaks at this committee and the Chairman specialises in cutting me off while other people are allowed to speak. They are welcome to speak for as long as they like, but I would like the same kind of indulgence from the Chairman.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Burton: ...properly be. There is an alternative to this approach, which is to increase the bank levy. The Minister has refused to do this. Instead, therefore, we have banks carrying losses forward for very long periods into the future when they will not be levied with corporation tax. It should be remembered that the other companies the Minister talks about have significant intellectual property...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Eligibility (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons qualifying under the long-term illness scheme are eligible for training courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43861/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: 298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons qualifying under the long-term illness scheme are eligible for workplace programmes and training courses even if they are drawing credits rather than receiving a social welfare payment; the supports available for persons in this category to assist them in returning to the labour market in circumstances in which...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...I launched several reviews, in co-operation with his Department, which specifically examined bogus self-employment. People recognise that self-employed people who work hard are deserving of consideration, and we have welcomed this year's long-awaited and long-promised further increase in relief for the self-employed. However, due to the differential which arises on the basis that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (17 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: 230. To ask the Minister for Health if persons qualifying under the long-term illness scheme are eligible for workplace programmes and training courses even if they are drawing credits rather than receiving a social welfare payment; the supports available for persons in this category to assist them in returning to the labour market in circumstances in which this is possible; and if he will...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Joan Burton: ...advance in delivering Sláintecare. That €400 million should be available to deliver the kind of genuine game changers health care in Ireland needs. There are three maternity hospitals in Dublin: Holles Street, the Rotunda and the Coombe. Each has a well established and long agreed capital plan for development at a time when the number of births is increasing rapidly. The...

Report on Relationships and Sexuality Education: Motion (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Burton: ...back at how well we handled our own situations or, indeed, our own children, there is much food for thought in the report of how this is a constant learning experience, as new generations come along. Of course, with the influence of social media, much of the ground in this area has developed in a way that most of the Members could not have envisaged. When they were teenagers, even though...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Sep 2019)

Joan Burton: ...but not getting any tax reductions in terms of PAYE. Can the Taoiseach state what the situation will be for the hundreds of thousands of people affected, particularly pensioners, carers, those on long-term disability benefit, lone parents and others who rely on social welfare, social protection and retirement income? Will the Taoiseach tell us whether the indications of the Minister...