Results 4,061-4,080 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: This scheme has a surplus of €17 million.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach has at every opportunity described Ireland as the best little country in which to do business. It seems Forbes magazine agrees. However, I believe the question of whether Ireland is a good little country for the average person in which to try to earn a living needs to be raised. One of the reasons given for moving Ireland to the top of the Forbes list for pro-business...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Remit (10 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: 76. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has sufficient powers to investigate Garda malpractice, in view of statements made by both the ombudsman commission and the Garda Commissioner. [52653/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (10 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has been contacted by the patron regarding the reorganisation of four schools (details supplied) in Dublin 10, [53068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (10 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: 506. To ask the Minister for Health the instructions that have been given to pharmacies in relation to the new €25 per month maximum prescription charge fee for medical card holders (details supplied). [52743/13]

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: The Bill represents the minimum required to comply with the EU insolvency directive. While the Bill will provide some protection for members of defined benefit schemes restructured or wound up due to insolvency it will do so by reducing the benefits of the retired members. We face a wide variety of problems in pension provision. The State pension is not sufficient to meet the needs of...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: I refer to a question which Deputy Séamus Healy has asked twice in the last two weeks, once of the Taoiseach and once of the Tánaiste. On neither occasion has he received a reply which dealt with the question he raised. Before the Minister replies, the 30,000 families affected by this and I are well aware that the Government has established the Insolvency Service of Ireland, ISI,...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: What is it?

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: In my question I appealed to the Minister not to list off these points by rote, and that is exactly what he has done. He has not said what the Government will do to solve the problems of the 30,000 families who cannot access insolvency services. I thought it might be third time lucky today and I might have got an answer from the Government. I have an example of a family whose income is...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: There are 30,000 of them.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: Outrageous. They are left swinging in the wind.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licences Applications (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: 155. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council intends to carry out dredging at the channel to Sligo Harbour; if his Department has received an application from Sligo County Council for a foreshore licence for these dredging works; the date on which the application for the foreshore licence was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: A lot of issues have been already covered. Perhaps the witnesses would elaborate further on the Protestant ethos issue. I have listened carefully to what everybody had to say. There are little nuances with which people have a problem and are seeking clarification on from the Department of Education and Skills. There are also fundamental issues in regard to the Traveller and migrant...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Collection (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible for the remaining persons still on deserted wife's benefit or allowance to be considered eligible to pay the local property tax like other recipients of long-term social welfare payments from said payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51442/13]

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: That was a speech the Tánaiste should have given last night in the debate rather than sending in his junior Ministers to respond to the Technical Group's Private Members' motion. Again, in the role of Labour finance spokesperson in 2010 on the question of extending the timescale of the powers given under the Act, then Deputy Joan Burton, in briefing the Labour Party parliamentary party...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: Is he suggesting this was not a blank cheque? They said it themselves in 2008.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: It is Frankfurt's way then, is it?

Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: Will the Tánaiste indicate when the water services Bill will be brought to the Dáil to be debated?

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: A very important judgment was given in the High Court this week relating to the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008. The then Labour Party spokesperson on finance, Deputy Joan Burton, said in a debate on that Act that: "One of the difficulties with giving the Minister a blank cheque is that it can invoke what economists and philosophers like to call the law of unintended...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: Regardless of what the Minister says in trying to defend her position, the reduction in core payment from €188 to €144 in respect of persons under 26 years age is a cut. As has been already stated, there are 30 applicants for every job. Nobody wants to remain on the dole or to have to live on €188 per week. It is a poverty income. People do want jobs. The Minister...