Results 161-180 of 2,594 for speaker:Joan Collins in 'Dáil debates'

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: I wish to draw attention to two events in the news this week. First, I express my solidarity with the water services workers all over the country, in particular those of them belonging to Unite who will be going out on strike this Friday. We need to make sure these workers keep their pay, conditions and public service status. Guarantees around conditions such as allowances, regular and...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this motion to the floor of the House. I also welcome those in the Gallery who have come to listen to the debate. I hope they will get a resolution to this issue. It is clear from the PwC report that the current fair deal scheme, commonly known as the "unfair deal scheme", is rapidly becoming unsuitable for our social care needs. Providers are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (22 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: It was pointed out to me that when the Food and Safety Authority withdrew all imported frozen food from the shelves of Iceland, there were health and safety inspectors literally crawling all over the place the following day. When we raised the issue of wage theft, we did not get inspectors from the Labour Courts in those stores to see what was going on. This just shows what kind of response...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (22 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: Since the retailer Iceland in February sold its 27 stores to Project Point Technologies, a company directed by Naeem Maniar and with an address at 5 Old Dublin Road, Stillorgan, County Dublin, the workers in Iceland have experienced wage theft and deplorable conditions. As Deputy Cian O'Callaghan stated, the temperature in some stores was very high. The matter was raised in the Chamber a...

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: I welcome any additional apprenticeship placements. I also welcome yesterday's announcement of placements in respect of construction, nursing, etc. I wish to discuss the underlying economic and social conditions. In a general sense, we have a cost-of-living crisis and a housing crisis and we are facing an existential climate breakdown. Starting pay for workers who build the houses and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach all but refused to answer my question on promised legislation on the matter I am raising today and so I am going to try again. The question is about segregation of Part V council tenants. In light of the situation in the Davitt apartment complex in Drimnagh and others around Dublin and in light of the fact that Part V tenancies are set to become even more important for housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: The Davitt complex is one complex that we are very clear on because we have heard it directly from the horse's mouth, the tenants living there. We know it has happened elsewhere in the city. We are going in a very serious direction if we are going to have segregation. Those in block D are all council tenants. Tuath Housing is managing the 26 homes in block D that do not have access to the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: First, I will express solidarity with the workers in Iceland in the Northside Shopping Centre. I was on the picket line with them a couple of weeks ago. A number of workers were let go after that strike. I bring to the attention of the Taoiseach the situation of Part V council tenants. We have been dealing with a situation with tenants of a complex in Drimnagh, The Davitt. It is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: It has to do with planning applications and the planning process.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: What about access to playgrounds?

Education Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this Private Members' motion to the floor. I welcome the opportunity to speak on it. Last week, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul released its minimum essential standard of living, MESL, 2023 report. Over the past 12 months, the cost of being able to live with dignity has gone up by 10%, climbing by 13% for those who live in a city. The cost of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: It was announced last week that Greyhound is increasing its bin charges again. Over the last 18 months, these charges have increased from €16.50 to €30 per month. One woman has said that in June of last year she was paying €22 a month to have her bins collected by Greyhound Recycling and now expects to be paying €30 from July. This is an increase of more than...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: We need legislation as well. Legislation needs to be changed.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: I was asked to raise a particular issue that has escalated this week. I refer to the ongoing industrial dispute at the Irish franchise of the Iceland chain over poor conditions, unpaid wages, sick pay and leave. The owner, Naeem Maniar, appears to be using an opaque corporate structure to avoid paying his workers what they are due or engaging with their union, which is the Independent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2023)

Joan Collins: There are questions around the wording there.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Joan Collins: I read the Taoiseach's interview in the newspapers last week and I thought it was a particularly sly bit of politics to talk about building public housing and the lack of homes to buy in the same breath. The reason homeownership is going down is that successive Governments led by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Labour Party and the Green Party have allowed our housing market to become a...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Joan Collins: Before I speak on the motion, I would like to express my deepest condolences and sympathy to Vera, Paul and the family on the loss of their daughter, Ava. We should put that on the record of the Dáil. Last June this House passed a Private Members' motion brought forward by Deputy Connolly. It called on the Government to: - immediately reinstate all respite beds closed as a result of...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Bríd Smith for introducing this Bill. It is very timely, this being the fifth anniversary of the significant referendum on the right to access abortion. The important point is that abortion is a healthcare issue. The review was initiated to determine where we were and how the legislation allowed women access to healthcare. We have to say that, in some areas, it is...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Joan Collins: I welcome the debate on the issue of services in autism disabilities. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion today, giving us the opportunity to discuss it. I wish to read into the Official Report part of the contribution by Mr. Adam Harris from AsIAm to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism on 16 May 2023. He encompasses a lot of the issues we have discussed: Many...