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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)

...the valuable opportunity to explain the challenges I have faced as a blind person during my education and, more recently, in gaining employment. I would like to begin by referencing evidence provided by Ms Joan O'Donnell of the Disability Federation of Ireland to this committee in January 2018. She informed members that, between 2013 and 2016, unemployment dropped by 5.3% but that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)

...the valuable opportunity to explain the challenges I have faced as a blind person during my education and, more recently, in gaining employment. I would like to begin by referencing evidence provided by Ms Joan O'Donnell of the Disability Federation of Ireland to this committee in January 2018. She informed members that, between 2013 and 2016, unemployment dropped by 5.3% but that the...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Joan Collins: ...finding it stressful to get rented accommodation and they have no secure tenure into the future. The St. Michael's Estate plan is a ready-made pilot project to change the way we deliver housing in Ireland. It would be a game changer if developed nationally over time. A report published by housing policy expert, Mel Reynolds, last week shows that the housing and homelessness crisis is...

Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Second Stage (3 May 2018)

Joan Burton: We have not seen any Ministers from the Department of Finance coming into the House to discuss their responsibility for the public service code of conduct and how somebody in the HSE can take a second appointment when they are charged with managing the HSE. That is what I wanted to say. On this particular legislation and the European Union directive, there are many new financial products...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Dr. Joanne McCarthy: I thank the three Co-Chairmen for initiating this meeting. We recognise the pioneering nature of the initiative with the three committees taking time to consider how they can jointly explore issues and hopefully make improvements in the lives of people with disabilities. Dr. Patricia McCarthy, whose expertise comes through lived experience as well as research, and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Dr. Joanne McCarthy: I thank the three Co-Chairmen for initiating this meeting. We recognise the pioneering nature of the initiative with the three committees taking time to consider how they can jointly explore issues and hopefully make improvements in the lives of people with disabilities. Dr. Patricia McCarthy, whose expertise comes through lived experience as well as research, and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Dr. Joanne McCarthy: I thank the three Co-Chairmen for initiating this meeting. We recognise the pioneering nature of the initiative with the three committees taking time to consider how they can jointly explore issues and hopefully make improvements in the lives of people with disabilities. Dr. Patricia McCarthy, whose expertise comes through lived experience as well as research, and I...

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Burton: ...out as to whether Capita will now go the way of Carillion. The collapse of both public private partnership providers and companies has led to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the UK and Ireland. In particular in Ireland, we have the loss of a range of jobs. Some very good and reliable contractors who were subcontractors on public private partnerships face receivership before...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Disability Funding and Disability Proofing Budget 2019: Discussion (24 Apr 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Ms Joan Carthy: On behalf of the IWA, I thank the committee for inviting us here today. To follow on from what Dr. McCarthy said, I just want to talk about the impact that disability proofing budgets will have on people. disability proofing future budgets is not just of the utmost importance, it is essential for the thousands of Irish citizens with disabilities who want the same rights,...

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Collins: I am a little underwhelmed by Deputy Bailey's speech, but she is right: she has her opinion, and everyone else has theirs. It does feel like Groundhog Day: we come in here nearly every week to discuss the issue of housing. However, it is a very important day for us to be here because two reports have been published in the past 24 hours. The first was compiled by ALONE and makes the point...

Genuine Progress Indicators and National Distributional Accounts Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: ...model of Anglo Irish Bank. However, the problem was not confined to Anglo Irish Bank. Like a horror movie, it went on to destroy the rest of the banks and the Irish economy. What was the outcome of the St. Patrick's Day massacre? Not too long after it, Bertie Ahern announced that he was going to stand down as Taoiseach, which he did. Brian Cowen took over and was very unhappy for a...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: ...agreement of Fine Gael to bring in the Low Pay Commission and to introduce the only labour legislation throughout the EU, and certainly in any of the countries which had experienced economic collapses such as Ireland's, to give additional powers to trade unions and strengthen provision in the area of collective bargaining. The concept of what a job is and what is work is important. We...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: ...staff now employed in the Central Bank. The figure is approximately 1,600 at the moment in the new "golden bank", as it is called, on the quays. That expression is used because the outside of the building has a gold-coloured mesh. I know many children call the building the gold building because if a person is walking down the quays, from a distance that is what it looks like. Anyway,...

Centenary of Women's Suffrage: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: ...Jan O'Sullivan, became Minister for Education and Skills. What had been three women around the Cabinet table of roughly 18 suddenly became five, and five makes a difference - it is not a lot but it is better. Let us come together and say that we will have a minimum of 40% women in the next Government, and that, preferably, we will work towards 50%. I am very disappointed with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Ms Joan O'Donnell: I would like to echo much of what has been said about attitudes. The system does not understand the people it is supposed to serve, such as lone parents, people with disabilities and people with substance abuse issues. Among the disabled cohort, the issue of having to deal with multiple regimes is multiplied again because people are dealing with medical services and...

Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish to support and welcome this motion. I have read the Minister's reply and I am very disappointed. In his previous post, he was very fond of talking about the disruptive effects, in a positive way, of change. I and others have been drawing this problem of substitute teachers to the attention of the Minister for the past year and a half. I have...

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: ...over the past six years. Deputies Boyd Barrett, Catherine Murphy, Durkan and I who began raising this issue in 2012. We were seeing what was happening on the ground. We could see the train coming because we were dealing with people who were finding themselves homeless. We took every opportunity to raise this issue in the Dáil and to force the Government to think about what was...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: ...served with termination notices in respect of their homes in the private rental sector. These families are facing the nightmare of eviction and potential homelessness. One or two such families come to my office every week and it is likely that similar situations take place in the constituency offices of all Dublin Deputies. During the same week Threshold released its annual report which...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...are, as the Minister knows well, many houses being built. The fact is, however, that the window through which someone in the process of buying could make a gain was less than six weeks because the builders just increased the prices dramatically when the scheme was confirmed. Prices have been increasing ever since. I appreciate that the Minister is now really caught in the cross-hairs in...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: ...soup kitchen at the railway station in my home town of Clonmel. They will all tell the Minister that not enough is being done and that the situation is getting worse. What do some of the advocacy groups say? Focus Ireland very recently in the past fortnight said "We’re never going to tackle this problem if we don’t reduce the flow of people coming into homelessness." Its...