Results 21-40 of 220 for speaker:Joanne Collins

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (22 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: Irish Rail will be ready when funding comes through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (22 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: To keep rolling with the plans.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (22 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: That is brilliant. Thank you so much. I will leave the rest of my time to somebody else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (22 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: I welcome Ms Considine and wish her well in her new role. Our expectations are quite high. We know she worked for Shannon Airport for a long time and did an amazing job. It would be nice to see rail go the same way as Shannon Airport. As the new CEO, she has a lot to do to make us as happy with rail as we are with Shannon Airport. The Foynes to Limerick rail will be open for freight...

Seanad: Cost of Childcare: Motion (21 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: I am here tonight not just as a Senator but also as a mother and as chairperson of a community-run crèche. I have seen from all sides what is happening here. We have heard a lot of talk about investment in education, which is absolutely welcomed. The budget announcement of 1,700 new special needs assistants is welcome, but with such promises comes deep concern. According to the...

Seanad: Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The Bill is fairly straightforward and I thank the Department for the helpful briefing note that was provided to everybody. The financing of houses, social housing in particular, via the local authorities and the funding of approved housing bodies, AHBs, is most definitely of huge importance. There is a dire need for people on housing lists to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó – Order of Business (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: I want to raise something I noticed last week. The National Ambulance Service was in before health committee last week to take questions. Its representatives stated, and it was reported in TheJournal.ie, that the service would be interested in having doctors going out with its crews. I found it quite amusing, considering there is a charity that works under the National Ambulance Service...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: You can have all the time in the world.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: Excuse me. We might have a second round of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: We might come back to it in the second round of questions. Was there a specific point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: I have to go to the Seanad shortly. I have one or two statements and some questions. I live in County Limerick. Earlier this year, quite a big plant was to be built in the townland of Granagh. There were 160 houses around it and each of the 160 objected. It came down to a lot of different issues. One was road infrastructure, which is not great in that area of Limerick as it has very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: It does come down to having it in the right place. At present, is the grant 50%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: Is it smaller?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: It is 20%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: Is this something that might be looked at in future for individual farmers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: Information is definitely key to getting any of these over the line. It is about community engagement and knowledge for those who will be living near it. I thank the witnesses and I will not take up any more of their time.

Seanad: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the all-island strategic rail review and to put on record the needs of Limerick and the greater mid-west when it comes to rail. I also welcome the all-island approach taken by the review. For far too long, transport planning has stopped at the Border, and too often it has actually stopped at the M50. For decades, successive Governments have presided...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: I might stop you there. We can continue the discussion later. The voting is finished so the Deputies will return shortly. I wish to get to the next speaker. I call Senator Brady.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Joanne Collins: I welcome everyone back. It is great to have them here. Rural transport is top of my agenda as I live in County Limerick, so I will paint a picture. I think this relates first to the NTA. Living in the west of County Limerick we have Bus Éireann, which is bus 321. There is the Expressway bus 13, and the Dublin bus, which I think is bus 300. If you are a student or are working in...