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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...

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 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...

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Joan Collins: ...Estate in Inchicore. St. Michael's Estate Regeneration Team called a public meeting on 15 May 2017 saying that there is another way. One of the speakers was Tom Healy, author of a report entitled Ireland's Housing Emergency - Time for a Game Changer. I also wish to put on the record the fact that the Government programme embraces the concept of cost rental. I welcome the fact 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...