Results 4,401-4,420 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Other Questions: Road Traffic Offences (6 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received the final report of the Assistant Garda Commissioner into allegations that fixed charge notices mainly for speeding have been inappropriately cancelled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11604/13]

Other Questions: Road Traffic Offences (6 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for that reply. He could almost recite it by rote at this stage - he does not need the script in his hand. We were told this report would be issued in January but we are still waiting for it. The Minister says it will be ready in two weeks and I hope that is the case. Does the Minister realise, however, the depth of public interest in these issues? This is not just...

Other Questions: Road Traffic Offences (6 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: I recognise the staff in the Questions Office must work under direction.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (6 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report the number of fixed penalty charges imposed in each Garda division in each month between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2012; the number of terminations of fixed penalty charges in each month; and if he will provide a breakdown of the reasons for such terminations. [11605/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (6 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the Local Government Auditor's Statutory Report on the accounts of Sligo County Council for the year ended 31 December 2011, the Sligo County Manager stated (details supplied); if at any time in advance of the Councils draft budget being published in December 2011 did his...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (6 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the funding he has allocated for each regeneration project in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11932/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (6 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he allocated for a regeneration project (details supplied) in County Sligo, since 2006; the amount spent in each year on the regeneration programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11934/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Elections (6 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that there are currently 12 elected representatives on Sligo Borough Council and 25 elected representatives on Sligo County Council; the number of councillors there will be in Sligo following the June 2014 local government elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11935/13]

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: Crucifying workers again.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: They can only defer the tax.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: Bad laws are made to be broken.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: We looked for it to be zero.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: They should not pay anything at all.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: I will not take too long because many of the points have been made already. I want to put on record my objection to this being called a local property tax because it is neither local nor based on property. A number of years ago, the Labour Party, in a coalition Government, introduced a tax on houses worth over a certain value. The wealthy went on strike and the property tax was done away...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: It has been spent already.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: My back garden will be taken into account.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: How dare you.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (5 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Taoiseach the number of public sector workers who have retired in the past three years within his Department or any office/body under his aegis that have been reinstated; if he will provide details on the pay rates they are receiving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11078/13]

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Mar 2013)

Joan Collins: I too strongly oppose the guillotine on this debate. We must look at the state of the country and see it for what it is. For decades, the policy of successive Governments has been to encourage people to get on the mortgage ladder. In 1989, I was renting a two-bedroomed house in Kilmainham at a cost of approximately £980 a month. An opportunity then arose to buy a house in Inchicore...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2014 (28 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Finance if, following the recent Irish Bank Resolution Corporation/Promissory Note deal, it is his intention to pass on the benefit of the claimed one billion euro in savings in the form of a less severe budget adjustment in Budget 2014; if so, if he will quantify the amount of any such new adjustment target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10631/13]