Results 4,521-4,540 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (29 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is planning to bring in a jobbridge type scheme to take thousands of unemployed persons into local authorities on internships; her views on this type of scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3913/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Employment Support Services (29 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: The Minister has stated a new scheme involving 3,000 job placements is coming on stream and that these placements will be with local authorities which have lost approximately 7,000 staff in recent years. Why is she establishing a new scheme under which those who take up job placements will not be paid the same amount as those already employed in a particular section or department? How will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (29 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I appeal to the Minister not to move on any closure of the community welfare offices in Crumlin or in Curlew Road. These offices are in the heart of their communities where people can access them. Their staff have significant experience and know exactly who is who and what goes on in the area. They have their ear to the ground with regard to work in the area. Closing these offices and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (29 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I do not think that washes from the point of view of the community in the Dublin 12 area. The Parnell Road office is a tiny office. Currently it is very busy, yet the Minister is talking about bringing in claimants from Dublin 6, 6W, Dublin 12 and Bluebell. That is ridiculous and will not work. People will be queuing up outside trying to access the office. I appeal to the Minister not to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (29 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the community welfare offices (details supplied) in County Dublin are being closed and staff services being centralised to Parnell Road and Bishops Square, social welfare offices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4270/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (29 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form by local authority the number of inspections on local authority houses in relation to condensation and or dampness. [3756/13]

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: It is slave labour.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: Addressing a recent meeting of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, said there would be no question of write-offs. He said that longer maturities and low interest were at the core of discussions on the promissory notes. On the issue of money put into the so-called functioning banks, including Bank of Ireland and AIB, the Minister...

Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: Vampire tax.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: Shame on the Taoiseach.

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: First Stage (22 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: First Stage (22 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the restructuring and disposal of certain mortgage arrears; for the retention, where practicable, of the principal private residence in instances of certain mortgage arrears; for the removal of significant negative equity debt in the case of eligible persons; and to provide for related matters.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (22 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to the Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012, Part 14, Offences and Penalties section 146, other than by court action whether Revenue has the authority to collect a penalty arising from (a) or (b) of section 146. [2287/13]

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I would like to share time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: I want to support this Bill because I think it represents a step forward. It is necessary as we try to deal with this issue. I do not need to repeat all of the points that have been made. I suggest that the Department of Social Protection is particularly responsible for perpetuating the dangerous myth that loads of people are defrauding the system. Those who receive social welfare payment...

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: The decision to impose cutbacks on the further education and training sector is an extremely retrograde step. It flies in the face of the Government's Action Plan for Jobs which was announced with great fanfare last year. The plan linked economic recovery with the development of skills in the workforce. It included a commitment to give those who have been on the dole for more than 12...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: The family home is not an asset.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Unemployment Levels (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that according to his Department's own projections that there will a 0% increase in the net level of unemployment by the end of 2013 and that even if his projections are realised unemployment will drop by in the region of 2% by the end of 2015; if he will respond to the projections of the Nevin institute that unemployment may even rise over...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Bonds (17 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the recent bond sales by the National Treasury Management Agecny will, in fact, increase by a significant amount the annual debt interest payments required to be paid by the state on its borrowings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1990/13]

Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Joan Collins: My question concerns legislation before the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality and whether it is the Government's view that a sex worker should attend that committee. There seems to be some reluctance to allow a sex worker to speak before the committee.