Results 1,261-1,280 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: 398. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the random controlled survey of widow's-widower's-surviving civil partner's pension contributory is mandatory and will lead to an automatic cancellation of the pension without a written explanation that her Department will stop an old age pensioner if the person does not comply-co-operate with the random controlled survey. [3917/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: 399. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the protocol in place in the lead up to an old age pensioner having their payment cancelled because they have not co-operated-responded to the random controlled survey of widow's-widower's-civil partner pension contributory; the number of personal contacts that must be made and the sequence of written contact that must be made and provide the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: 406. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the process engaged by her Department in their random control check on the payment of a pension (details supplied) in Dublin 10; if she will reinstate the contributory widow's pension with immediate effect pending this report been drawn up and a resolution to the withdrawal of their pension [3978/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: 402. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 is being denied his jobseeker's allowance [3964/14]

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for his prompt action last week in regard to the pension being reinstated to Annie in Ballyfermot. I would like to draw out the points I made last week. Will the Taoiseach join with me in marking the passing of the folk singer, Pete Seeger, who wrote and recorded some of the most famous protest songs used by the civil rights movement of the 1960s? He was not just a...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: ----- to stop using their influence to lobby and coerce governments to introduce policies in their favour, to disclose the real ownership of companies and to pay decent wages, but this is like asking a wolf not to eat sheep. We are dealing with a capitalist system based on creed, profit and inequality.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: After attending that conference and hearing some of the comments and the request from Oxfam, will the Taoiseach reconsider his austerity programme and consider taxing the wealthy in this country and bringing in an effective corporation tax, which will deal with the issues of inequality and social equality?

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: The specific pledges Oxfam asked people at that conference to consider were not to dodge their taxes, not to use their economic wealth to seek political favour, which is lobbying governments to implement their policies in privatising essential services such as water, waste and other utilities, to make public all their investments and companies, to support progressive taxation on wealth and...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: After seven austerity budgets, will the Taoiseach continue with the same type of policy of not taxing wealth and not diverting that money to where it should be, namely, social structures? Does he believe that if he continues in this way, there will be social revolution, as was said by commentators on the Davos conference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank the delegates for their presentations. I do not have many questions for Mr. Shanahan because, in general, Forfás is doing a good job. He indicated that Forfás steps into the breach where private companies are not delivering innovations in certain areas and where public bodies are not providing services. Does it initiate particular programmes when it identifies a need?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: The problem is that a single person, Deputy or whoever can state he or she did not have this information or that information from one source contradicts information from another One receives reports from the ESRI, as well as Michael Taft's report to the effect that the bottom decile is affected more by changes to VAT or to public services, as the witnesses noted. In general, he gives the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: Has the delegation anything in regard to the committee linking in with the equality budgeting group, for example?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: The Tánaiste is talking about the family home tax.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: That is based on income tax only.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: It is a family home tax.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: People will have to pay for dirty water.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (4 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 129. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed report on the Oxigen site in Ballymount that went on fire on the morning of 25 January; and his views on whether sites handling hazardous waste should be located in built up areas. [5034/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (4 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school place in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [5345/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System (4 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 526. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any member of the Garda Assistant Commissioner's (details supplied) internal review team investigating the terminations of penalty points, or any member of GSOC, has had penalty points terminated. [5301/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (4 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 536. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with the family of a person (details supplied) to discuss the need for an independent inquiry into their murder. [5294/14]