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Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: ..., down the Long Mile Road, over to Bluebell and encompassing the OPW site and Inchicore Works. That entire area is going to be developed, with lots of new apartments. The LDA owns a lot of the land or will take it over but there is no secondary school in the area. This is an issue that has to be addressed in the coming period and I just wanted to raise it here today.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: ...is a very important issue. I have dealt with several constituents over the past while who are stuck in the gap between the social housing income threshold and the income thresholds for the new Land Development Agency cost-rental projects. Many people find themselves in this position and as more of the cost-rental projects come online, we will see more middle-income earners realise they...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Joan Collins: ...year, it has even privatised the provision of public housing. Those 72,000 households should be housed in secure high-quality public housing but instead face insecurity of tenancy, vulnerable situations with landlords and, in many cases, substandard housing. Last month we all received a joint press release from the four Dublin local authorities. They are seeking that all developers...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Joan Collins: ...is more than twice the national median household income for one person. It is also far more than twice the income threshold to get onto the housing list. The solution is public housing, built on public land by a publicly owned construction company, where the people who benefit are the workers who build the houses and workers on the average industrial wage. We used to do this between...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Joan Collins: ...so students are missing out on studying certain subjects, and we do not have enough resources for these schools and communities. As I always say, we need to start building public housing on public land. The Minister stated earlier that the Government had identified 30 sites on which to build 1,500 modular homes for people on the housing lists. Sites for modular homes to house asylum...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Joan Collins: ...civilians, suppresses rights and democracy and enforces discrimination, segregation, desperation and poverty. Gaza is an open-air prison of 2 million people and Israel is settling and annexing land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It maintains this regime through its western-supported military and police and the total suppression of democracy for every Palestinian, whether living in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: ...is socialising the development levies for public infrastructure. I welcome that, but I would like to see the next step, namely, the Government socialising the building of public housing on public land by a public, State-run housing construction company. That is what is needed, and it is critical. I wish to raise a brief question on development levies. I want to know for exactly how...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: .... I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Member's motion from the Social Democrats. The National Economic and Social Council made a recommendation in its Private Rental in Ireland report last February to consider Danish-style reforms to our laws on vacant properties. In Denmark, property owners must report to municipal authorities if their property is vacant for more than...

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: ...least and who are the most vulnerable. Working class people and communities feel it first and feel it worst. This is while the Government gives away billions of euro in HAP payments to private landlords and sells our public land for a few meagre social housing units in return. I listened to Deputy Bacik criticising €1 billion being used for HAP but I have to point out to the...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: ...authority is supposed to be there for. Existing legislation takes money that is needed in communities and diverts it to fill holes left by the Government’s refusal to properly fund local authorities. The land value capture and urban development zones could be positive but they are market dependent. It is not a cure-all for this problem. Government proposals do nothing to address...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: ...; — urban and rural communities around large population centres will see substantial increases in population as new developments are built; — increases in population will see significant changes in landscapes, communities and quality-of-life; — spending on community projects and services, by councils and other funding sources, was severely reduced as a result of the...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Joan Collins: ...change. It takes CO2 out of the air. It traps greenhouse gases in the soil. It helps reduce in our air and water. It develops ecosystems that speed up all these process. We need natural woodlands, not only to hit emissions targets but to make sure we have solutions to climate change. These forests need to be native and sustainable. They need to promote wildlife and help stop...

Income Eligibility for Social Housing Supports: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: ...more housing so these people will not be left languishing on the housing list for ten, 15 or 20 years, as some of my constituents in Dublin South-Central are. It must be State-led, through a State building company, using public lands. There is enough land there to build 100,000 homes. They must also be appropriate homes. That is important. There are also a number of complications...

Housing for All Update: Statements (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I draw the attention of the Minister of State to proposals for a renewed repair and lease scheme that Simon Communities Ireland launched last Thursday. It states that Housing for All has set out low targets for the delivery of properties under the repair and lease scheme with only 130 units envisioned for 2023. Simon Communities Ireland proposes that a target of 5,000 vacant units in 2023...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: ...policy means ending the reliance on the private sector and international investment funds, establishing a safe housing company with the ability to build 100,000 cost rental traditional council houses directly on State-owned lands already rezoned to build 100,000 units. Where are the alarm bells going off in the political establishment regarding the huge official figures for...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: ...factor in the crisis is the unaffordable rents demanded in the private rental sector. Rents have risen by 100% in the past ten years. There is certainly no evidence of a 100% rise in the cost to landlords of maintaining a property or of a 100% increase in workers' wages over that period. We now have a year-on-year inflation rate of 10%, but there was nothing like that in the past ten...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: ...this issue already and I am sure the Ceann Comhairle is sick and tired of me raising it in the past couple of weeks. Last year, 3,038 households renting were served a notice to quit, mainly because the landlords were selling up. I cannot understand why the Government is not alarmed by it. It was the highest number of evictions of tenants in a single year since the foundation of the...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...city-centre site of 12 acres. Councillors gave it to a developer, committed to subsidising the infrastructure to the tune of €10 million and waived development levies of €5 million. That is free land and €15 million. In exchange, Dublin City Council will buy 30% of the homes for public housing, 20% for affordable purchase and the other 50% will be sold privately,...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...co-location. It was then that the process for a compulsory purchase order should have been put in motion. If that had been done, the hospital would have been built and would be operational on State-owned land, fully publicly owned and run. We need to deal with the reality regarding the issues with the provision of abortion services in this country. Despite the repeal of the eighth...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: ...agenda, as recommended by the Mulvey report. Am I right or wrong in stating that this is a fact? The second fact is that the question of ownership of the hospital is not clear. The State will not own the land it is to be built on but will instead lease the land from a private company – St. Vincent's Holdings – which, to my knowledge, has not yet been established. The...