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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...

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...

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...

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2012)

Joan Collins: ...time and again, that the programme of austerity is not working. It has resulted in the collapse of the domestic economy. Only one statistic is required to show the level of collapse, namely, the 25% fall in demand, which is the worst such fall in any EU economy since the Second World War. We see this in our communities and our local villages when places close down. The shops where...

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...

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...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: ...with Allied Irish Banks. This is the rogue bank among rogue banks. It competes well with Anglo Irish Bank and National Irish Bank for the title. This bank has bought us the ICI debacle of 1985, the bogus non-resident accounts, the DIRT scandal, loan write-offs to Charlie Haughey and Garret FitzGerald, rogue trading by John Rusnak, the Faldor tax evasion scheme for executives and...

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...

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...

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 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...

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....

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...

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...