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Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: We are all delighted to see people coming home to Ireland from across the world. The good news is that, due to the expansion in employment here, for many people it might well be the first step towards what we hope is a permanent return home for those who wish it, after having spent time abroad and probably having gained extremely valuable experience for building a career in Ireland. I...

Banking Sector Regulation. (18 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: ...failure? Will anybody on the regulatory board be brought to account for what has happened there? The Minister is aware that the reputational damage caused by the affairs of Anglo Irish Bank to Ireland is immense. What inquiries are being made in the counterparty banks to the activities in Anglo Irish Bank, namely, Irish Life & Permanent and Irish Nationwide Building Society, given that...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Joan Collins: ...keep my contribution fairly succinct. The problem is that social housing has not really been addressed here. All of the discussion is directed towards private financing for private developers to build houses that will probably cost between €300,000 and €350,000. People cannot access housing in that price range and we have not really come to the nub of how to address this....

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome this debate on the quarterly report on housing and Rebuilding Ireland. Unfortunately, all we have seen recently is targets with nothing happening on the ground. The housing crisis is a social emergency and poses a major risk to the economy. However, the Government policy response has not been adequate and, as far as I can see, has worsened the crisis. The core failing is the...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Pat Buckley: ...to happen again, to be swept under the carpet or to be denied. Until we do that we will be a nation living in a deep and inescapable cloud of shame. I am proud to have worked with the campaigner, Joan McDermott from Cork, and to call her a friend. She is the definition of a survivor. She is my hero. She was imprisoned in the hell of Bessborough House in 1967 because she had committed...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: Before Christmas, I co-launched with the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, the dementia strategy for Ireland based on funding both from the HSE and from Atlantic Philanthropies, which would be centred on the precise points the Deputy is making to assist older people in particular to remain in their own homes for as long as possible. The Deputy will see that around the country there...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Banking (5 Jul 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this important issue, namely, the necessity of developing a model or system to provide a local banking system in Ireland. I am glad to see Deputy Joan Burton in the House because she has been a strong advocate in that regard and done a lot of work on the issue. The report by the Department of Rural and Community Development on this...

Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: ...be attracted to Kerry. The chambers of commerce in the county, including the Tralee chamber, members of which I met with recently in the town, have very ambitious plans and are working with IDA Ireland to achieve them. The latter now has regional officers in place, rather than having people from Dublin coming down occasionally. The regional officers are there to attract industrial,...

Job Creation (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: I appreciate what the Deputy has said but he should bear in mind what I said. The people who have come from FÁS and the community welfare service have, in many cases, already got training experience and experience of one-to-one dealings with individuals, either in the community welfare office or the FÁS employment services. The Department also has in-house training. We must provide an...

Irish Economy: Motion (Resumed) (14 May 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: I commend my colleague, Deputy Joan Burton, for tabling this motion and giving us the opportunity to debate the economy at this crucial time, particularly in light of the information we have been getting on a downturn in the economy in recent years and in light of the fact we have a new Taoiseach. Sadly, despite what Deputy Kelly stated earlier, that one third of all the houses in Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Given the scale of this particular project, there would appear to be relatively few contractors in Ireland who could bid for it. It seems to me that the contractors are able to call the shots on variations, although Mr. Watt has said that they will have to prove their case. Is there an effective cartel in operation among a chosen group of contractors? The Taoiseach was in Lisbon last week...

Brexit: Motion (21 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: Brexit is without doubt the biggest disrupter and challenge to Ireland, North and South, since the building, construction and banking collapse of 2008. So much has been spoken and written about it that many people are weary of this convoluted and complex discussion. The document presented by Mr. Barnier and his team represents one of the better possibilities for Ireland, or the least worst....

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: ...should be legislated for and there should be a commitment to close all hubs by December 2019? Does he agree there is a danger, as the study says, that the newly established family hubs could become a form of direct provision for poor families? The report finds that the major reliance of successive Governments, particularly in the context of Rebuilding Ireland, on the private sector to...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: ...provide some sort of housing for people, albeit insecure? I also note that there is no mention of security in the motion. To me, security of tenure is the crucial thing that people need. Rebuilding Ireland is a mess. People on the average industrial wage find it practically impossible to rent or get a mortgage. I know a person working in this House who has three children and five...

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: ...which I was not familiar. It was alien to me, as a citizen, what that process was about. I looked at it and tried to gain experience in and knowledge of the matter at that end point of the plan coming into effect. My first experience of the connection not only between the local authority officials and developers, but politicians right across the board - it was not only Fianna Fáil...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: When various transformations in Bertie's life went ahead who did we see coming down the stairs of the Dáil? Was it Mr. McNamara, that late great tzar of Irish building, who was calling the shots for Fianna Fáil on behalf of the developers and their friends in the banks? Did I see Seán Dunne, the person who went to the Queen and sessions in the United States as the key guest of the Irish...

Northern Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement: Statements (20 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: I want to recognise that the agreement lays down a demanding financial template for all the parties and people in Northern Ireland. We have sought here again and again, the Labour Party and Government, to ensure that the people who are most vulnerable, particularly in regard to social welfare and their weekly payments, have been protected, and that has been a very difficult thing to do. I...

Topical Issue Matters (22 Sep 2011)

Joanna Tuffy: ...-built centre was funded by the HSE and caters for the whole of County Kildare which is now the fourth most populated county with 209,000. There is a particularly young demographic. This decision comes at a time when refuges in Ireland generally are experiencing a huge increase in the demand for their services. To have a building that could provide a measure of safety to women and...

Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: ...that no family would be in a hotel or bed and breakfast by 1 July last year has been a failure. By the Government's own standards it has been failure. How ironic that statements are now coming from hotels that they will have to move out homeless families when the Pope comes over. No room at the inn in our so-called republic. According to the ISPCC, one in three homeless people are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: ...work. Cena, as approved housing body, is now a statutory body. How much money does it receive? How many people work for Cena full-time? We heard about apprenticeships and having architects come on board. How does Cena operate? The map shows that four properties have been bought. Did Cena link with local authorities to buy these properties? The maps also shows that nine homes...