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Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: It is quite ironic we have gone through the marriage equality referendum with all the structures put in place for it. I heard Deputy Eric Byrne say the LGBT community should not be discriminated against. They should not. However, a LGBT who is a Catholic in a Catholic school will be discriminated against. That is the problem and why it is important we vote on these particular amendments....

Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: ...of Dublin City Council in 2010 and 2011, I tabled an emergency motion regarding NAMA handing over properties. We had a housing crisis then at that level. A member of the Labour Party, Deputy Eric Byrne, produced a leaflet in 2010 stating that Dublin was in the grip of a housing emergency. In the leaflet he said that his motion in Dublin City Council to declare a housing emergency was an...

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: ...see the housing that is needed. We need 130,000 social houses over the next two or three years to try to deal with this issue. In this context, I am reminded of a leaflet that was circulated by Deputy Eric Byrne when he was a member of Dublin City Council. It relates to the crisis that was being faced in the 2008-09 period as we came out of the boom. I agree that there was a crisis at...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: ...continues to support Irish Water. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform was opposed to water service charges while he was in Opposition, as were many of his party colleagues. When Deputy Eric Byrne stood in the 2000 general election he issued a leaflet which stated:A number of issues will emerge in the forthcoming general election: massive job redundancies, poor state of our...

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: I was amused to hear the Labour Party Deputy, Deputy Eric Byrne, refer to Deputy Adams as a "sponger" in the Chamber yesterday. Just last weekend, I spent a day clearing out years and decades of political and council papers that had built up in the parlour of my house and happened to come across an election leaflet from the early noughties from the bold Deputy Byrne. I read it and under the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: ...appointees on all of the hospital boards. Were the appointees aware that the top-up payments were being made to CEOs and other hospital staff? Was the issue discussed by the boards? When Deputy Eric Byrne was a councillor, he was a member of the board of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, for many years. He was replaced by Councillor Michael O’Sullivan. Did...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Traveller Community Issues (28 May 2013)

Joan Collins: That would be appreciated but questions have been tabled already and the Minister has given standard replies to Deputy Eric Byrne. However, I will certainly contact the Minister about this area. It is not just that school but also the other schools around it and the community in Labre Park, which are all part of that system. There has been a definite reduction in school attendance by...