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Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: I do not think so.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: There is a strong right contingent on the other side.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: I support the amendment because this important point should involve ministerial consent. The Minister does not seem to get it as this is not about privatisation. We are not discussing that, although I am opposed to privatisation. We are not talking about what happened with Eircom. When the parcel service was deregulated, SDS was set up by An Post as its parcel service but it collapsed...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: I also support this amendment. Last night there were references to the Dutch postal services, with someone mentioning there had not been deregulation. The Minister said yesterday that we are all afraid of competition but postal workers have a right to be afraid of competition judging by an article on the Dutch postal service in The Guardian on 29 April: Somewhere in the Netherlands, a...

Eurozone Heads of State and Government Meeting: Statements (20 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: Will the Taoiseach go to the EU tomorrow with a clear statement that this madness must end? Since 2008 there have been €20 billion in cuts. These have come in charges, levies, taxes and increased interest rates on mortgage debt all across the line, and taxes on low and moderate incomes. This policy has enormously deepened the recession. Demand has been cut by 25%, and yet still we have...

Eurozone Heads of State and Government Meeting: Statements (20 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: If necessary.

Eurozone Heads of State and Government Meeting: Statements (20 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: I have an idea of what is happening in the country.

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise two aspects of legislation. I refer to the litany of austerity packages that was approved by the Government, that is, the two parties therein, two weeks before the election in respect of the water tax. Will this measure be introduced under the polluter pays principle or under special legislation pertaining to a tax on people? Second, on mortgage debt, will legislation be...

Written Answers — Wage-Setting Mechanisms: Wage-Setting Mechanisms (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the stakeholders with whom he met while consulting on the proposed changes to the joint labour committees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20127/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Budgets: Local Authority Budgets (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 366: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council has had the highest overall deficit balance of all county and city councils, as outlined in their respective annual financial statements for the financial years ending 31 December 2008, 31 December 2009 and 31 December 2010; if his...

Written Answers — Local Regeneration Projects: Local Regeneration Projects (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 367: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 10 May 2011, in which he confirmed that his Department is providing €2 million to Sligo Borough Council in respect of proposals for the regeneration of the eastern quadrant of Sligo, if he is in a position to indicate the boundaries of the eastern quadrant of...

Written Answers — Local Regeneration Projects: Local Regeneration Projects (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 368: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expenditure of regeneration funding for the Cranmore and Eastern Quadrant project in Sligo on project staff salaries and wages, project office overheads, consultant fees, funding for the employment of a development worker and information officer by the Cranmore Community co-operative, the Cranmore...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 513: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) whose story was the subject of an RTE Prime Time programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21229/11]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedure and the basis on which the three taxi representatives were selected on the taxi review group; and if all registered taxi drivers were given the opportunity to participate in the selection process. [20873/11]

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: As I said earlier, I am a member of the Communications Workers Union, which opposes the liberalisation of the postal market and, in particular, the third postal directive. I am sure the point that one shoe size does not fit all has been made to the Minister on many occasions in recent months. He may have made a similar argument when he was on this side of the fence not so long ago. This EU...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: Like the other speakers, I am not opposed to the amendments providing for the allocation of moneys to TG4. Perhaps the Minister would take on board a matter that has been raised with me. People in my community have expressed their anger at the wages many RTE presenters earn and they have raised the possibility of boycotting the payment of their television licence fee on that basis. That is...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 (Seanad): Motion to Instruct the Committee (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: The first point I would make is that my union, the Communications Workers Union, is opposed to the liberalisation and privatisation of our public services, particularly any aspect of a service provided by An Post, and especially on this the third stage of the liberalisation of public services. It is important to lay that on the agenda this evening. As a member of that union, I support its...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 (Seanad): Motion to Instruct the Committee (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: I thought we are dealing with An Post.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 (Seanad): Motion to Instruct the Committee (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: For the purposes of clarity, is the Bill being taken separately from the issue of An Post?

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 (Seanad): Motion to Instruct the Committee (19 Jul 2011)

Joan Collins: I was not expecting that.