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Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: ...and city councils in recent years (details supplied); if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the members of Sligo County Council were informed at their monthly meeting on the 5 of March 2012 that the council's overall revenue account debt at the end of 2011 increased to €12.9 million and that the council's capital debt is now €73 million and that a majority of the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: ...in their respective annual financial statements (details supplied); if it has been brought to his attention that the members of Sligo County Council were informed at their monthly meeting on 5 March 2012 that the council's overall revenue account debt at the end of 2011 increased to €12.9 million and that the capital debt is now €73 million; if it has been brought to his attention that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Home Beds (21 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have accessed beds in nursing homes from hospitals with the €25 million extra funding for the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2438/15]

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Collins: ...as outlined in their respective annual financial statements for the financial years ending 31 December 2008, 31 December 2009 and 31 December 2010, that Sligo County Council had a deficit of €2,815,649 for the year ending 31 December 2008, a deficit of €3,232,961 for the year ending 31 December 2009 and a deficit of €2,463,505 for the year ending 31 December 2010 and on the 31...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (21 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: ...statements for the financial years ending 31 December 2008, 31 December 2009 and 31 December 2010; if it has been further brought to his attention that Sligo County Council had a deficit of €2,815,649 on its revenue account for the year ending 31 Dec 2008, a deficit of €3,232,961 for the year ending 31 Dec 2009, a deficit of €2,463,505 for the year ending 31 Dec 2010; that the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (13 Nov 2012)

Joan Collins: ...to his attention that the Sligo County Manager placed an item on the agenda issued on the 30 October, for the November meeting of the Council seeking approval to borrow a sum not exceeding €7.5 million by way of a loan for 20 years to replace the existing overdraft borrowings of €7.5 million and seeking approval to continue with a temporary overdraft of €4 million for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (11 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: ...than €3 billion in tax cuts were given away, mostly to those who are already well off and to businesses and corporations. Deputies' wages, for example, have risen and we are now better off by €5,000. Some 50% of workers on medium incomes - and those who earn less - are only better off to the tune of €707. The average increase for most workers was €5. Like...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: ..., including low pay, poor management and low morale among staff. The figures relating to the National Ambulance Service in the 2018 national staff survey by the HSE are quite shocking. Only 5% of staff felt that senior management acted on staff concerns; only 5% felt that communication was effective; only 6% had confidence in decisions made by senior management; and shockingly seven...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: ...included. It is a three stage process to bringing it back completely, I hope. Has Crosscare had the opportunity to discuss this directly with the Minister? Its submission said it would cost €5 million to €6 million. Is that for the 900?

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I withdraw. In his speech yesterday, the Minister for Finance mentioned Brexit more than 30 times. He initiated a hard-Brexit fund of €1.5 billion to €2 billion, if required. Of course, it will be necessary in the case of a hard Brexit for the Government to try to alleviate the worst effects on the economy, people's jobs and livelihoods, but there is no plan set out to help...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget Measures (11 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: If the Minister was earning the average industrial wage and he received a €5 increase in his weekly wage, what does he think would be the impact of that increase in the context of, for example, paying utility bills? What impact does a €5 increase have on a person who is in receipt of a pension and whose rent increases, even if that individual is a local authority tenant? The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (21 Nov 2012)

Joan Collins: ...the fact a letter of the 2 November 2012 to the Sligo County Manager, his Department indicated that it was willing to provide approval for the conversion of Sligo County Council’s existing €7.5 million overdraft on its revenue account to a term loan; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Sligo County Manager told the meeting of Sligo County Council on the 5 of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: ...suitable for up to 800 housing units, has been left derelict for more than ten years. The original public private partnership, PPP, project collapsed when the developer realised that the €100 million in anticipated profit would not be guaranteed given the collapse in house prices after the 2008 crash. The PPP model failed because it was based on the premise of massive profits...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: ...old age pension. Age Action Ireland has shown that when inflation is taken into account, the real value of the State pension has fallen by more than €10 per week in the past year. That is €542 in a year. To lose that much money is a considerable drop in income. Age Action's pre-budget submission called for a €15 increase to offset the exasperating rise in prices,...

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...

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Joan Collins: ...made clear points about what was going on in this case. On 14 May, when they spoke to the liquidator, KPMG claimed that debts to creditors, including the Revenue Commissioners, amounted to €19 million. Of this, €5 million was owed to Revenue, predominantly in the form of VAT. At this meeting, it was also confirmed that the value of the retail stock held in the 11 Irish...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Joan Collins: ...levels paid at present, play a crucial role in combatting poverty. If left to market forces, the figures show that those at risk of poverty would be 41% of the population, and an incredible 52% in the EU-27, according to an European Anti-Poverty Network, EAPN, report. When social transfers are included, the level of poverty risk falls to 16% both in Ireland and the EU-27. The role of...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: ...Fail Party but because of the lack of an alternative we have seen the continuation of the same Tweedledum and Tweedledee politics of the past 20 or 30 years. A couple with two children and earning €25,000 a year are the working poor. They are putting in long hours and feeling the pressure of austerity budgets. The budget is a savage assault on their living standards. Assuming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Barnardos and Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Pre-Budget Discussion (12 Jul 2018)

Joan Collins: .... There has been real structural damage to families over that period and ten years of it has caused major psychological and health problems. What are the witnesses' thoughts on that? The €5 per week that Barnardos is calling for will cost €45.6 million. Given recent announcements on gas and electricity prices, would such an increase be enough? The Employment...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...it legally to ensure maximum profits. The site is a prime public city-centre site of 12 acres. Councillors gave it to a developer, committed to subsidising the infrastructure to the tune of €10 million and waived development levies of €5 million. That is free land and €15 million. In exchange, Dublin City Council will buy 30% of the homes for public housing, 20%...