Results 201-220 of 327 for long speaker:Joan Collins

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: ...made a presentation to Deputies in which it expressed concern that the cessation of the mortgage interest supplement scheme would result in homelessness. If a parent in a one-parent family contracts a long-term illness, there is a real risk that the family will be on such a trajectory if some short-term support is not provided. This is a targeted short-term scheme and those who are...

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: ...to a decade that it has been used for tax avoidance by the wealthy. A specific loophole in Revenue rules allows parents to gift valuable properties to sons and daughters without paying any tax so long as their child has lived in the property for three years and remains there for another six years. The loophole has in the past been used to transfer properties worth tens of millions of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: ...raised its particular concern about the risk of homelessness caused by the cessation of the mortgage interest supplement scheme for one-parent families. If a lone parent is absent from work for a long period due to illness and cannot access other mortgage relief, mortgage interest supplement plays a very important role. Obviously, the supplement does not apply to the capital. These are...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: The mortgage interest supplement scheme probably went on longer than initially anticipated. However, I knew people who were absent from work due to sickness or injury - maybe they had broken an ankle or whatever - for six, nine or ten months and who availed of the mortgage interest supplement scheme to get them over that hump. When they got back to work, they were able to go back to paying...

Mental Health Services Funding: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: ...help immediately, but if the Government keeps taking money from where it is needed, that will not happen. The fundamental point made by Dr. Shari McDaid is that what we have now does not go any way to addressing what is a fundamental long-term problem or move us towards a more progressive and reformed mental health service.

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: ...better off not working and that is the irony of the policies that were put in place in the past number of years. Far from encouraging economic independence, this policy is trapping lone parents into long-term social welfare dependency. Changes to one-parent family payments has exasperated lone parents looking to access all levels of education. In the programme for partnership...

Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (26 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: I bring to the attention of the House the fact that three of the parents with daughters in the Assumption girls' school are in the Visitors Gallery. They have had a long day because this morning, in response to the fact that tomorrow they could lose their teacher and with the permission of the parents, there was a protest by the students outside the school. It was very emotional because...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: I wish to give an overview of the Bill we are discussing. The publication of the long-awaited final report of the Mahon tribunal brought to an end the longest running and most expensive public inquiry in Irish history. The Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments, which was the tribunal’s official title, was established by the Minister for the Environment and...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: ...cancer control programme. I do not know if Professor Keane agrees but the first point seemed to be identifying the problem, as there was a big issue with cancer then. It was when Ms Susie Long died because she was a public patient and all the issues that came around it. The problem was very identifiable. It was then about implementing the strategy and getting political support. In a...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: ...testing for the fair deal nursing homes support scheme. I wish to raise an issue regarding the fair deal scheme, particularly for people with dementia. An enduring power of attorney is required, which is a long and costly process. Does this Bill provide that such legal costs, if incurred by any of those in redress and similar schemes, will be covered by the State? The Bill makes...

Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jul 2016)

Joan Collins: ...am a member of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare. I hope we will progress the issue of free health care in the committee. It defies description that a child suffering from a serious illness or long-term congenital condition is not automatically entitled to free health care. It also defies description that a family caring for such a child must undergo a complex means test in...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Joan Collins: ...issues we have raised. The Government instructs the Department to change things. I welcome the increase in rent supplement payments as it has been a huge issue which we have been raising for a long time. It grates on me, however, that more money is going into landlords' pockets at taxpayers' expense, which places a question mark against policy in the State rather than the Department. ...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Joan Collins: ..., Deputy Coveney, in response and I thank him for acknowledging my proposal. I wanted to broaden the terms of reference to cover the social implications of funding water services in the short, medium and long terms, including water poverty for low-income families, and possible future privatisation; the protection of public ownership of water, including its management and delivery; and the...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: ...for water a different way, which is the same way we have paid for it since the year dot through VAT. That is a more progressive way to do this. Other aspects of the water charges issue could be debated such as how long it has taken to install water meters, the cost of doing so, the jailing of people and the resistance to the programme. Will the Government stop the water metering...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Properties (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: ...and Natural Resources if the Digital Hub has no objection or has an objection to extending the Brú Aimsir emergency bed facility beyond the 31 May 2016; and if there is no objection, for how long will it be extended. [14798/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: 352. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and how long the person will be waiting for surgery. [5051/16]

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: ...been a director. I am sure Proinsias De Rossa, who is the chair of TASC, endorsed the press statement that was issued on 6 February 2015 stating:As part of its work on democratic accountability, TASC has long advocated for a more independent process to replace the ad hoc and politicised appointment of people to serve on the boards of public bodies or state initiatives. TASC has published...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Applications (15 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 589. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how long has he been considering (details supplied) a proposal from Dublin City Council on the refurbishment of a block of units at Jamestown Court in Inchicore in Dublin 8 and when he will respond to it. [45234/15]

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: ...in general. The implementation of the key elements in the Kenny report and the key recommendation of the Moriarty tribunal, the appointment of an independent planning regulator, would go a long way towards addressing this corruption. The political will to do that does not exist in Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil or, unfortunately, in today's Labour Party. I refer to a report last year...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: ...authority if that developer agrees to rent out the units. That should not be there because all the housing should be designated as social housing. I have supported the concept of a vacant site levy for a long time but, again, I question why it is to be set at such a low level of 3%. We must put in place the necessary short-term measures to deal with the escalating problem of...