Results 701-720 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins
- Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (11 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: Well, I call for an independent public inquiry on this important issue.
- Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Offences (11 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: I will be brief. Deputy Daly has made most of the points I wish to make. We need a public inquiry to reveal any discrepancies or malpractice that might exist in the system. If the Minister is so confident that such practices are now taking place, he should have no problem clearing the way for such an inquiry to take place. It would be good for the country if people were to be assured that...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: I propose to share time with Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan, Finian McGrath, Mick Wallace, Catherine Murphy, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, Seamus Healy and Mattie McGrath.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: It is a pity the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, is not present in the Chamber for my contribution and those of my colleagues. The ESRI report published today includes shocking data on the concentration of unemployment and poverty in this State. In 2010, we are told, 22% of households included no adult in employment. The report shows that disadvantaged communities were excluded from the...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: Last year, the reduction in the qualifying age of children for payments to lone parents was one of the most significant issues discussed in the Dáil. There was an outcry from all the children's organisations that this was happening and lone parent groups came out to protest at this change. The Minister, to stave off the attack on her Bill, gave a commitment that she would not make the...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abduction (12 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures and systems in place to restrict children travelling from Ireland, who are restricted from doing so by family court orders without the permission of the second parent or guardian, in particular to the UK where a passport is not a requirement for entry. [55847/12]
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: This is outrageous.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: We just do not want them to be cut.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: On a point of order, we already discussed this.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: She moved the amendment yesterday. That is what we were discussing.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: She spoke on the amendment last night.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: This is one of the main areas people believe should be protected. The Minister has made the point that this grant was approximately €700 or €900 in 2004 and suggested she is not really eating into it. This measure will have huge repercussions for every single person who is caring for someone and also for the person who needs such care. The Government should reverse this cut...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: On a point of order, as one of the proposers of this measure, I seek the permission of the other proposers to have the section put to a vote now.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: I do not think he is going to speak.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: We want to have the section put to a vote.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: A Cheann Comhairle, I would like my proposal to be put to a vote.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the waiting times for applications for social welfaree payments and the waiting times for arrears to be paid for each social welfare payment; her views on the waiting times in general; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56054/12]
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: I also wish to object to the ordering of business for Monday. I am of the view that we should debate the property tax during Monday's sitting. As Deputy Martin indicated, the Thornhill report was only published in recent days. Voluntary organisations have stated that they are being impacted upon by what is taking place and the Thornhill report states that these organisations should be...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: It has been said already that this is not a property tax. No matter how many times the Minister says otherwise, this is a tax on the family home and it will be known as a tax on the family home forever. That is what people will call it rather than a property tax. It is crazy situation given that there are large numbers of distressed mortgages. Some 1.8 million households are living on...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Joan Collins: I will not take up too much time because many of the points have been made. I wish to put on the record, however, the fact that this is probably the most inappropriate legislation that has come before us in the past 18 months. It is the most draconian and feudal Bill that this country has seen in decades, whereby the Revenue Commissioners will be brought in as a strong arm of the law to...