Results 2,161-2,180 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: We need to get clarification on that but I think it can do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: Who will make the decisions after 2019 in the context of the next five-year contract and what goes out for what I will call privatisation? There seems to be disagreement about what constitutes privatisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: Under the direction of the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: I made a point on viewing the proposed network. The connectivity of the east coast is certainly very well catered for. As one moves out towards the west, however, one can see how working-class estates are particularly stripped of buses. In the outlying areas, one leaves the main routes and depends on 28-seat feeder buses. How does that constitute connectivity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: Are there areas such as Maynooth-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: Why have we have ordered 40 28-seat Mercedes buses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: This is probably the biggest public transport proposal we have seen in the city in decades. I am concerned that is has been presented as a fait accompli. Jarrett Walker has already said that anything more than a 15% change to this plan would render it unworkable. They are trying to contain the potential changes. That the plan tries to push so many people onto the seven spines rings alarm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the delegates from SIPTU for hanging around for so long.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: On the face of it this is a good amendment but we have not had the opportunity to scrutinise it. Bogus self-employment is one of the biggest issues facing workers across the board, from English language teachers, to RTÉ, Ryanair and the construction industry. I recall meeting a guy, whose name I cannot recall, who wrote a book about bogus self-employment. He was a courier in the late...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: It is a farce. It was supposed to be two and a half hours.

Water Conservation: Statements (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: Is Ireland going to grind to a halt every time there is some snow or a heatwave? Storm Emma left thousands without water and, during the hottest summer for decades, Irish Water has implemented a hosepipe ban and called on householders to conserve water by taking four-minute showers, using a cup when cleaning teeth and only using their washing machines when full or when necessary. That is...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: I congratulate and commend my colleague, Deputy Pringle, his team, Trócaire and everybody in the Chamber who played a role in getting this Bill to this Stage. It is an important landmark in the Dáil. It sends out a message worldwide that we are not only laggards but we can actually do constructive work on climate change. We know climate change is having a severe impact on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Barnardos and Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Pre-Budget Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: I do not have many questions after the last two speakers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Barnardos and Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Pre-Budget Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: Nearly everything has been covered. The Barnardos Lost campaign has been very effective. It should continue in that vein. It really focuses on the losses of children in poverty. It is really effective. I will touch on the issue of the austerity cuts. We are coming up to the budget, which is why the witnesses are here lobbying for us to put forward some of these ideas. We have to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Committee. (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to raise this question. In March, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government asked the committee to give him two months to come back with wording on the Thirty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016, to which this committee graciously acceded. It is disappointing that the Minister has not yet come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Committee. (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: The key issue is that this committee gave the Minister time to come back to it on this matter. I accept that he has to bring any proposed wording to the Cabinet but he should first come back to the committee to explain that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Committee. (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: Is it possible that the committee could reply to the Minister to thank him and ask him if it could be expedited as quickly as possible, maybe by early September?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Committee. (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: The Minister had said June.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Committee. (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: Yes, he has indicated that he will do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Committee. (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: I do not believe it is up to me or the Minister being happy. It is up to the committee to be happy with it.