Results 2,061-2,080 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commencement of Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I will read to the Minister of State an email I received from a parent which demonstrates the frustration people feel. I want to put it on the record of the Dáil because this issue is urgent and needs to be moved along. This parent says that she and her wife have been together since 2003. They married in 2009 under UK legislation. They both made the decision to have their first child...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Service Obligation Services (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 10. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on amending the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 to provide that no direct award of public service contracts for public transport passenger services in excess of 10% will continue in view of his comments that he has no ideological position on the privatisation of public transport. [52116/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Service Obligation Services (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: This question relates to privatisation and when privatisation is not privatisation. It is amazing the play on words by both the Minister and the CEO of the NTA, who have consistently stated that bus services have not been privatised and have only been tendered out, and a private company happens to have won that tender even though Bus Éireann underbid it by €3 million. Its...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Service Obligation Services (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: It can be changed. The Minister could amend the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 to stop further competitive tendering so that when this 10% tender won by Go Ahead next goes to tender, serious consideration could be given to the competitive tendering of Bus Éireann. In this case, Bus Éireann under bid the Go Ahead company by €3 million, had the staff and had good pay and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Service Obligation Services (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: The Minister keeps saying that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Service Obligation Services (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I challenge the Minister on that. It is the words used. The Minister spoke of the "PSO bus market". We do not have a bus market. Our public transport service needs to be protected, developed and funded, and needs more buses on routes, which is important as the cuts that have been made since the austerity years. More buses are needed on our streets. That determines the thinking behind...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Transport Network Safety (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: There have been 1,000 acts of anti-social behaviour against bus workers and drivers in the past 18 months. There have been four assaults on Bus Éireann services in the past couple of weeks. Until recently, I did not know that Bus Éireann does not record assaults unless the worker is absent for more than three days. A worker could be assaulted but it is not recorded if he or she...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Transport Network Safety (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I know they are fitted in the low-floor coaches, but the Minister made the point that other coaches are not fitted with security screens. There are safety concerns. I am sure that the health and safety committee could look at something like that. Where there is a will there is a way. If something needs to be done and can be done, it should be done. Assault screens should be fitted on all...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Transport Network Safety (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the immediate installation of assault screens on all Bus Éireann services will be ensured; if his initial positive response to a union (details supplied) will be followed up; and when a Garda transport division will be established. [52299/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Transport Network Safety (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: In response to a letter from Dermot O'Leary of the National Bus and Rail Union, NBRU, on 26 June, the Minister stated:I have asked my Department to write to the CEO of Iarnród Éireann...and the Chairman of the Railway Safety Advisory Council...to seek their views on the adequacy of the current arrangements for combating anti-social behaviour on our rail network. I have also asked...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the safety of public transport workers will be supported by creating a dedicated transport police resource that would have the powers of detention and arrest. [52117/18]

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I will not take long because I covered many of the points I wished to make when I spoke on the Bill last Thursday. It is regrettable that amendments which could have had a positive impact on the industry have been ruled out of order. Whatever about the increase in the loan capacity from €300 million to €500 million, the extension of section 481 and the increase to €100...

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank Senator Kelleher and the Civil Engagement Group and a range of political parties in the Seanad for their support for this Bill. I will make a few general points, which the Minister of State has probably heard before. He knows that the world is experiencing unprecedented displacement of people. Over 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, persecution or...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: The Minister is not in attendance, though. I was not informed she would not be able to make it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: May I move the matter to next Tuesday?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: Then I request to do so because, while I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, I wanted a reply from the Minister.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: Will she be back by next Tuesday?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: Next Tuesday, then. Is that okay?

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: These schemes seem to have no promise of a job upon completion. Another common practice in the industry is contractors operating as the heads of departments and dictating to employees as if they were the employer. It is no secret that some of these individuals are the ones who insist that honest and outspoken employees be blacklisted. The recent "Prime Time" report was a hatchet job....

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: The Minister has stated this is a straightforward technical Bill which will have no impact on the Exchequer. That is because the funding to meet the extra loan capacity of €200 million will not come directly from the Exchequer. While I was not as involved as Deputy Boyd Barrett in the discussion in the past year about working conditions in the film industry, I have met workers in it...