Results 2,241-2,260 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I welcome the views expressed by Mr. Honohan because they will clear the decks a little that as a State we can intervene and purchase property from vulture funds by means of compulsory purchase orders to get housing directly rather than building which would take a much longer period. There is also the issue of clearing the decks in terms of the planning laws to allow for six, 12 or 20 weeks...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. O'Connor for his introduction. It seems that things are moving on and the situations now facing people in personal insolvency arrangements have changed. People seem to be in a better position to be able to negotiate with the banks through a personal insolvency practitioner. At the beginning, the belief was that it was only if a person had money that she could engage a PIP, but...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Joan Collins: When the vulture funds buy a loan book of distressed mortgages, let us say the majority of those mortgages would have been worth approximately €300,000 at the top of the boom, and they buy it at half the price, does the insolvency service negotiate on that amount or on the original mortgage?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I asked earlier who pays for the PIPs. Does the State pay for them through the insolvency service?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I have had dealings with the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation, as have many other Deputies in this room under previous Governments, in relation both to themselves and to constituents who come in to them regarding this issue. I want to register again that I fully endorse the fact that we are in a housing emergency and we still have a tsunami coming down the road in respect of repossessions...

Report of Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I am happy to contribute to this debate as I believe it is an important one. Like other speakers, I take on board the fact that many people put a lot of work into this. Much of it is very positive and it is a step forward. I will preface that by saying this is not happening because we wanted it to or because anybody in this room wanted it to. We know if that had been the case, it would...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (24 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 252. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a tenant (details supplied) of Sligo County Council on the recommendation of the occupational therapy service in the Health Service Executive applied for the provision of a walk-in shower in January 2014 and that the council made a submission for funding for the works to his Department in February...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (24 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to continue funding to the WALK PEER programme under the disability activation project to ensure the programme remains in place, given that it ceases on 30 July 2016 and that the cost of continuing it is €280,000 per year. [11791/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (24 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has received an application from a person (details supplied) under the invalidity pension scheme; when he will make a decision on it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11740/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Expenditure (24 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reintroducing the medical card for persons over 70 years of age to pre-2013 levels. [11590/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 407. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) is unable to receive the required treatment due to no funding being available from the Health Service Executive. [11239/16]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: First Stage (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: Tairgim:Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. The Bill reads for itself and seeks to amend Article 28A of the Constitution. The text set out in Part 1 of the Schedule shall be inserted after Article 28A.2 or 28A.4. The text states: "The...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: First Stage (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha." I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I am proud to have signed my name to this Private Members' motion. The coalition Government of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents must understand clearly that any attempt to rescue Irish Water or water charges or to keep open the door for future privatisation will be doomed to failure. This is the third attempt by the establishment to commodify the country's water and it has...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: Water was never free.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: Your time is up.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: Will you stop water metering now? Yes or no.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of re-introducing the household package to 2007 and to 2008 levels in tabular form. [11645/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of returning social protection payments to 2007 and to 2008 levels in tabular form. [11646/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 155. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has ring-fenced funding for the conservation grant; and the amount of same. [12017/16]