Results 161-180 of 327 for long speaker:Joan Collins

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: ...specific groups are included in surveys such as people with a disability, older people aged over 60 years, students who travel to college or drivers? When I saw the map, I noticed that services along the coastline looked to be well connected. It looks really good in Rathmines and Rathgar and across the city, but as one moves out into working class areas, the difference between the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: SIPTU and NRBU (18 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the delegates from SIPTU for hanging around for so long.

Water Conservation: Statements (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: .... Unfortunately, they have practically have been left alone. The pipes are now at breaking point. The main problem with having such decrepit pipes is that they cannot tolerate cold snaps or long dry spells because when the ground shifts, they burst. Irish Water agrees that the water infrastructure needs upgrading but a reference to leakage was noticeably absent from its recent...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: ...? They are not being offered the extra hours by the employers. Mandate has won a 3% increase in pay for its members every year for the past five years. That is 15% over the past five years. Its long-term members get about €14 per hour. Where one of those members who is working in Dunnes Stores for 35 hours per week decides to leave, the company prefers to employ someone who can...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: The hoarding of land is a long established and very profitable practice in the property development and construction business in this country. As long as there are big profits to be made, land hoarding will continue. Land hoarding was recognised as a key factor in driving up house prices going back to the 1960s. The Kenny report was commissioned and published in the early 1970s and...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: ...service is raised in the Dáil every couple of weeks because the agreed Sláintecare report, which received all-party support, has not been implemented yet. Not only do we have exceptionally long waiting lists for medical procedures, the figures for which are contained in the motion, in recent months there has been a marked increase in the numbers of people who have gone into...

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: ...service to look at the report from HIQA in order to ensure that the resources the firefighters need are provided. The matter could then be referred back to the Dáil. It should not be placed on the long finger over a period. There should be a time limit of two or three months; whatever is negotiated with the firefighters and the National Ambulance Service workers. That might work....

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: Over a year is rather a long time to check that all the t's have been crossed and the i's have been dotted. I know it is important legislation. Thousands of workers are waiting for it to come through for some protection. Irish Life workers in a scheme that is healthy are potentially affected by their defined benefit scheme being wound down. There is also Ryanair and Independent News and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (14 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the long-term plan for Sundrive Garda station, Dublin 12. [26022/18]

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (Resumed) (31 May 2018)

Joan Collins: ...young people. This was a recognition, I believe, of the fundamental change which had taken place in society and the limits of their power. This is a victory for those men and women who have long campaigned not just on abortion rights but on contraception, divorce, gay rights, liberal rights, equal pay, etc. It is at the same time a massive defeat for the international forces that want...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Joan Collins: ..., as a volunteer, to develop our plan for the 12 acres of green space that is right in the middle of our community. What’s really ground-breaking about this proposal and what attracts me most to it is that all of houses on the site would be rented on a long term and secure basis, at a cost that is weighted according to people’s ability to pay. It’s called the...

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Joan Collins: ...plan for a cost-rental model, which they call the fair rents home model, whereby 300 units would be built in St. Michael's Estate for €55 million. The idea is that the rent would pay for the cost in the long term. They say annual rent collected for 150 social differential rental units would be €457,000 a year, and annual rent collected for 150 fair rent homes - cost-rental...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Apr 2018)

Joan Collins: 705. To ask the Minister for Health if the long delays for operations and outpatient appointments in the urology department in St James's Hospital (details supplied) will be examined. [15214/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Joan Collins: 857. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided with respite or long-term care. [15783/18]

Report on Lone Parents: Motion (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: ...costs, availability of affordable child care, obtaining child maintenance payments, job activation, access to education and changes to the one parent family payment, that lone parents had waited long enough and that action was needed to ensure the Government provided a range of measures, including but not confined to, housing support, child care access, education prospects and in-work...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: ...minimum hours for so-called casual work will be exploited by employers to move staff to casual status. This is a glaring loophole in the proposed legislation. The look-back period of 18 months is much too long. The Minister referred to the University of Limerick report but, at the launch of Mandate's secure work campaign, it was emphatically stated that the look-back period should be no...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (13 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 320. To ask the Minister for Health when Crohn's disease will be included in the long-term illness scheme. [6674/18]

Centenary of Women's Suffrage: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: ...particularly focused on this one phase of feminism, the girl who first defied conventions by riding a bicycle or the poorest woman anywhere who is revolting against the conditions of her life and longing for her chance to relieve its monotony, all these are part and parcel of the great uprising amongst women. As part of its feminist agenda, The Irish Citizen discussed a wide range of...

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: ...from my constituency came to me having received notices to quit because their landlords were claiming that major refurbishment was needed in the homes. That is the reality for people. Those two families, along with almost two families every week prior to that, found themselves in that situation and form part of the 46% of families forced to leave their private rented accommodation because...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: ...to ensure the Minister comes back to us with that report - or a paper, as she put it - on the 2012 changes and what they mean for these women, in the main, and men. We have gone through a long process and do not wish to repeat ourselves. However, I reiterate that what was done to this cohort of pensioners was one of the most brutal attacks on older women and men in this country. The...