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Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this Private Members' motion and welcome the opportunity to speak to it. The significant increases in energy prices, and the knock-on effect on inflation in general, mean many individuals and families now face a severe cost-of-living crisis and there is no guarantee this crisis will go away any time soon. Even if, in their current talks, Ukraine and Russia...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: ...and how the target of retrofitting 500,000 homes can be met. Despite the grant of up to 50% of the cost of a deep retrofit, there is a genuine issue with requiring homeowners on low to moderate incomes to come up with €20,000 to €25,000 from their own resources to avail of the scheme. With regard to local authority housing, last year local authorities were given the...

Report on Bogus Self-Employment: Motion (27 Jan 2022)

Damien English: ...this motion based on their report. I really appreciate the work they did in gathering material and information from the relevant stakeholders to produce this report. As was outlined, this report builds on the work carried out by the previous Dáil and the previous committee. It is great that work did not go to waste. I acknowledge that Deputy Joan Collins was also involved in this...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: ...put together the briefing that was emailed to all Deputies yesterday. I also thank Dr. Peter Boylan. All of these people have given of their time and energy to support this motion and the compulsory purchase of the grounds at Elm Park. I welcome the fact that the Government is not opposing the motion. However, it is not clear whether this means that the Government is in favour of...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ..., helped us with this and gave evidence before the committee. We also looked at legislation in neighbouring jurisdictions and we looked at other European countries. We are conscious that anyone in Northern Ireland aged 18 or over has had the right to a copy of his or her original birth certificate since 1987. In other jurisdictions, that right extends back much farther. In the...

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: ...level. Last week's budget did nothing to tackling these issues. We need to reduce rents by 50% and we need a rent freeze of at least three years. Freezing rents at an average of €1,900 in Dublin is not enough. Rents will only come down if there is a supply of affordable rental accommodation. An emergency programme to build cost rental accommodation is part of the solution...

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

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on budget 2022. To me and many others, this will, in many ways, be summed up as the "fiver budget" of 2022. I would call it the "lousy fiver budget" of 2022. Let us consider the State 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...

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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: ...complex situation and it is an issue we must deal with. The situation in relation to the new national maternity hospital is a test for the Government and for the people, particularly women, of Ireland. Are we to have high quality, free to use public services as a right for all in a modern secular republic? Alternatively, will we have a shabby compromise with the State spending at...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: ...one of the lowest levels of breastfeeding in the world. Where are we at on that? What has been put in place and what will be put in place in the future? More than 60,000 babies are born every year in Ireland. The overwhelming majority are born with no problems, due to the commitment of front-line staff who work long shifts in difficult conditions. Can we have a report and...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Malcolm Noonan: ...and avoiding unchecked planning. There have been calls to disband An Taisce. An Taisce is a prescribed body and an essential partner in our planning process. In response to the points made by Deputy Joan Collins, we are working to resolve myriad issues relating to housing and affordability. There is considerable commentary about what has happened in the past, but we are trying to...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Fergus O'Dowd: ...am also Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Our members have agreed unanimously that the families of the victims of the Ballymurphy massacre should come to the Oireachtas next Tuesday to talk to us about how they feel about what happened to their relatives and what must happen. I hope we will reach an all-party consensus on that. Like...

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...on how particular political parties, when in government, ignore the needs of workers in this country. At the time, in 2015, I distinctly remember trying to convince the Labour Party Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, of the necessity of passing laws regarding the corporate veil. I saw that political party get rid of the Sunday premium, which had the effect of reducing the wages...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...now. Government effort should be going into identifying vulnerable groups and essential services and restoring them as a matter of priority. That is what I am asking the Minister of State. I welcome the fact she followed up on it, but before I came in here I checked at 5 p.m. and Merlin Park Hospital has stopped respite care. Day care centres are not functioning in Galway, so we need...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...and this is an important day. However, I would have thought that would have been the best way to deal with the apology. The report of the mother and baby homes investigation tells the tale of an Ireland that we have left behind, yet it is not in our distant past. Reading the report, one would think that it details events of a long time ago, but it does not. The last mother and baby...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Malcolm Noonan: ...forward the Bill. I will begin by responding on some of the issues raised by Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. The local connection rule has been comprehensively dealt with. I was present when Deputy Joan Collins raised it last week during the Topical Issue debate. She played an audio clip of services trying to access beds for the night for a number of rough sleepers. It was very...

Seanad: HSE Capital Plan 2019: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: ...represents a continued sign of the investment taking place in our health service. The plan should be viewed in the context of being the first phase of our ten-year capital investment programme, Project Ireland 2040. We have committed under the plan to 250 projects nationally over the next three years. The plan includes 480 new beds, 30 new primary care centres, 58 community nursing...

Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: ...was not more information in the details, including costings of the plan brought forward by the Government recently in respect of climate change. I have said previously that climate change presents Ireland with a political challenge which is as important as Brexit, as demanding as the peace process and as costly as the financial crisis of the past decade. If we look at climate change in...

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (29 May 2019)

Joan Burton: I apologise for arriving slightly late. I have just come from the Phoenix Park special school where the pupils, teachers and staff have been involved in creating a very special garden, a sensory garden, which will allow the pupils to be in an outdoor classroom when the weather permits, and to be surrounded not just by the trees of the Phoenix Park but also appropriate planting of herbs and...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Burton: ...;100,000. Prices are going that way in Kildare, particularly in north Kildare. The crux of our social dilemma is that for people who are working hard on moderate to middle incomes, owning a home under Fine Gael is becoming an impossible dream. The Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, confirmed to me on a recent radio programme that the Government has not been able to do anything to help...