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Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: ...to €100 per week, children's allowance was subject to means tests and taxed, rent supplement was halved and overall education cuts, which affected many lone parents among others, totalled €134 million. In 2010, jobseeker's allowance for those under 21 was cut to €100, the minimum wage was cut by €1 per hour, there was a 4% cut in social welfare payments,...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: ...The Indecon report on lone parents was supposed to be delivered long before the budget but was only released last Monday. It showed an increase in the number of lone parents working but found that 52% were worse off due to the cuts introduced by Deputy Burton in 2012. She shed crocodile tears here yesterday about her shock at how children were being treated in the budget. Simply having...

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Joan Collins: ...period of time workers' rights were driven back. Most private companies now offer contract work, not full-time jobs. A major company such as Diageo, for example, has a workforce in which only 5% are full-time workers. The Minister referred to equal pay. In my old job, workers who are working side by side and doing the same job are on different levels of pay. That is also being driven...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: ...afford it, it is to be found in the income tax Estimates for 2011 compared to 2010, which were released by the Revenue Commissioners last week. The figures are incredible. Those earning €17,500 to €20,000 a year - which is less than €400 a week - have seen their tax bill treble in 12 months. It was argued that such people were earning too little to be taxed, but nonetheless their...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

Joan Collins: ...Sean Moynihan, the chief executive officer of ALONE, commented:After seven successive years of harsh budgets disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable, we now are in a situation whereby 1 in 5 older people are at risk of poverty or suffering deprivation, despite the National Positive Ageing Strategy. We are questioning whether this budget will do anything to bridge the gap between...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: ...housing policies up to 2017 that have failed the people of Ireland. I have no confidence in the Government's delivery of health services. There is an ongoing crisis in health provision, with 1 million people out of a population of 5 million on waiting lists, many of them for more than 18 months. I have no confidence whatsoever in the Government's credibility in delivering...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Joan Collins: ...Independents 4 Change and other Deputies are supporting it. The motion should probably have come sooner. When these matters were being debated in 2012, there was disagreement about how the €110 million should be utilised to support survivors who were subjected to abuse over the years in State and religious institutions. There was a suggestion that the money should be administered...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: ...sharp increase in the cost of living. The people who will be most affected by this cost of living crisis will be the 630,000 people living below the poverty line which, scandalously, includes 165,000 children and low-paid workers. These are the individuals and families faced with the stark choice to eat or heat. The Government must respond with much more than €113 off our...

Implementing the National Drugs Strategy: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: ...the increases that other public services are receiving, yet their funding was cut as promptly and as quickly as that of those workers back in 2011-12. This is despite a significant additional allocation of €4 million to €5 million to the drugs initiative budget for 2018. However, none of this additional funding is currently set to be allocated to the community drugs...

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

Joan Collins: ...of public housing. We had no money but we did it, and we can do it again. What is lacking is the political will to do so. The idea that the Government is now building the most public houses since 1975 is a joke. Putting aside the fact that Dr. Rory Hearne’s figures showed that only about 3,000 homes were planned and delivered by a local authority or an approved housing body last...

Pharmacy Fees: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: ...to set up a system to generate more income for a period under the HSE's radar. The HSE says that when all the medication was dispensed to a patient on the same date, Lloyds was only entitled to a €5 fee, yet it was claiming an additional €3.75 from the executive. The company increased its dispensing fees by 66%. This is significant increase not to be noticed quickly. I...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: ...it was a big hurrah for the economy. It is good to see jobs created, but some 12,100 of them are part-time jobs. This means that people do not have enough hours to earn a decent wage. There are 150,000 part-time workers who want more hours, an increase from the 4,000 in 2007. There are some 86,000 people on Mickey Mouse schemes, with no real jobs for them at the end of them. To June...

Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Joan Collins: .... She said she has been really impacted by the rise in the cost of her shop. She made the point that a pack of toilet roll that was €2.90 up to a couple of weeks ago has now gone up to €5.20. Another young woman and her husband work in the hospitality sector and are low-paid workers. They have four children and she said her weekly shop has gone up from between €100...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Joan Collins: ...of beds in our health service over the past three decades. In 1981, we had 19,000 hospital beds. In 2022, we had 12,000 hospital beds. This is in a period where our population has grown by 1 million and got older. Experts suggest that the lack of timely access to healthcare in the country could be responsible for more than 300 unneeded deaths every year. This is simply not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2018)

Joan Collins: There was a debate in the House last night on the closure of more than 159 post offices in rural communities. Throughout the country there have been large, angry meetings in response to the proposals as communities are opposed to the closures. Similarly, in Dublin city and the greater Dublin region there have been meetings in response to the proposed BusConnects project, which has been...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: ...alternative housing for them to fall back on. The RTB stated that it received 9,000 active notices to quit due to the lifting of the eviction ban. The estate agents, Sherry Fitzgerald, estimate 15,000 tenancies this year will be lost. The councils admit they have little or no emergency accommodation places left. The Simon Community and other NGOs say their services are already...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: ...implementation date. I put it to the Minister of State that the public are not saying that. Rather, they are saying the Government has given breaks to chief executives of multinationals of €28 million in tax foregone. They are saying that the very people who are making this decision have just pocketed a wage increase one month ago. During the past two years, there have been...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Joan Collins: ...the point, although I raised it previously, that this was being discussed in 2008 when we were at the height of the Celtic tiger boom and before we hit the recession. At that time we had 4% or 5% unemployment, but now, when we have a quarter of a million unemployed, the provision to extend the age of eligibility for the State pension to 68 is being introduced. This is obviously the start...

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: ...Ireland. One of these companies, Apple Operations International, managed to channel $30 billion without making a single tax return. In 2011, Google made $12.4 billion in profit and paid just $22 million in tax. Google Ireland is owned by Google Ireland Holdings, which is in turn owned by Motorola Mobility International, which operates from a post office box in Bermuda. This nameplate...

Report on Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Joan Collins: ...Howlin, on 16 November that creating jobs would be made a top priority of the Government simply does not stand up against the facts. On what is the idea that the IDA is on target to create 105,000 new jobs, with 640 investments, based? In effect, there is an investment strike by the private sector. Since 2009, non-financial corporations in Ireland have made over €30 billion in profit....