Results 181-200 of 326 for long speaker:Joan Collins

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding a person's (details supplied) long-term illness card. [47488/17]

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: ...existence of low pay. Some 24% of workers are low paid and 100,000 people with jobs experience poverty in one form or another. The Indecon report on lone parents was supposed to be delivered long before the budget but was only released last Monday. It showed an increase in the number of lone parents working but found that 52% were worse off due to the cuts introduced by Deputy Burton in...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: ...all the time in this regard that we can check these things out. We know there are more premises around Dublin in the same situation. It is very similar to the case in Dún Laoghaire, which happened not so long ago, where units were being abused. Unless we have enforcement and the bodies and fire officers to be able to check these premises, no legislation will change the outcome of...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: ...The Bill also gives the Minister the right to reduce the excessive water limit in five years' time. We know that big multinationals are out there waiting to take our water and they are willing to wait a long time for it. It is really crucial, then, that this country enshrines the right to a public water system into our Constitution for future generations. It should be done.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: ...same policy and sending out a message that it will deliver different results and address the crisis. What is needed is agreement on what the solutions to the crisis are, both in the short and long term, followed by action to implement them. By this, I mean an agreement among those of us who are not in hock to developers and vulture funds and do not have an ideological stance that...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: ...the private housing market in Ireland is broken and it defies logic to expect the private rental sector to deliver such a vast number of housing units given the insufficient supply and the lack of long-term security for tenants. It is also not cost effective as State subsidies have to chase ever-rising rents. The over reliance worsens the wider housing crisis by increasing demand and...

Committee on the Future of Healthcare Report: Motion (22 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: ..., it would add to the existing mess of an unfit-for-purpose system if it were cherry-picked. This report comprises a set of moving cogs and if one part is put in place the other part must be set alongside it. Our health service is a broken system. Other Deputies have mentioned various areas but I have had to represent people who are dealing with the urology department in St. James's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension Schemes: Discussion (15 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: ...or employees increasing their liability. The idea of giving a year's notice of intention to cease contributions is important. When we consider the cases of INM and Irish Life, it gives people a long time to sit down and work out rather than dealing with it overnight and saying the scheme will implode. I recall what happened during the ESB dispute about its defined benefit scheme. The...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: ...the schools their children attend, is not a solution and Niamh Randall from Simon Communities stressed this point this morning on "Morning Ireland". The other key question about the hubs is how long will families be there before they are properly housed. We now know the rapid build modular houses, proposed originally as temporary homes, are to become permanent homes. Will the hubs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: ...foreign direct investment. The Commission believes that [the privatisation of public utilities, including water supply firms] can deliver benefits to the society when carefully made. As long as the European Commission believes that water provision would be privatised the potential exists for that to happen. Also, there is the potential that a strong arm of a troika would force countries...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: ...leave. Mothers of pre-term babies do not get to spend their full maternity leave at home with a premature baby. The figure is approximately 4,500 per year which is a very small number. This is a long-standing problem that needs to be rectified for families affected by pre-term birth. Extensive global research has shown that maternity leave has a significant positive effect on the...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Joan Collins: ..., legal advice and papers that were already in the process and could not be accessed? Even doing that was an absolute shame and scandal. I am glad to hear there is an extension. That extension should be prolonged as long as necessary to assist asylum seekers in completing the document. I will support the motion in the Dáil and hope it will come before the House soon. The...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Joan Collins: ...building, which is funded by the HSE. Menni services can provide multi-disciplinary services to children who have complex needs. One can literally walk from one building to the other. It is a long walk for these children because they are instead met with serious problems accessing speech therapy. They have problems accessing the swimming pool, and the Taoiseach knows that the pool is...

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Joan Collins: ...where there was a rehabilitation centre. It was closed down and moved to the Simon Communities on the quays. It plays a role in assisting people getting some stability back in their lives. Along with that has to be the long-term hope and vision those people have for themselves of getting a job and becoming responsible in their own right for their own future. I give the Minister of...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Collins: ...in the 100 days the Citizens' Assembly has been sitting approximately 1,000 women have left these shores to go to Britain for an abortion, with hundreds more taking the abortion pill. For too long we have exported our abortion dilemma to other shores and we cannot continue to do this. For those who are not in a position to travel, the eighth amendment is a source of discrimination...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (16 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: ...states that it has offered workers voluntary redundancy, but what kind of choice is it when they are told their terms and conditions will be torn up if they stay on. In reality, this is part of a long-term plan in Tesco to break their union. Earlier this month in the Dáil, I spoke about Project Black. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation heard me speak about it. It...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Joan Collins: ...as President of the United States. He has appointed another climate change denier, Scott Pruitt, as head of the EPA in the US. Mr. Pruitt as Attorney General in Oklahoma has a record as long as your arm in pursuing lawsuits in conjunction with fossil fuel companies against the EPA. He is now making noises that he accepts there is some impact of people's activity on climate warming, but...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Collins: ...the Government linking something like this as a short-term measure to implementing the Kerr report within about two or three months to try to revitalise those services, this will not work in the longer term and we will be back where we started. It will impact on community groups and older people. On the other hand, if this decision is not made, we could see An Post not being able to pay...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Collins: ...reintroduction of the National Treatment Purchase Fund and, while the resources available to be spent in 2017 are modest, PHA members will be able to respond and provide treatment to some of the longest waiting patients on public lists over the coming months". That is a failure in the public health service being welcomed by the private hospital services because it will generate income...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: ...made a presentation to Deputies in which it expressed concern that the cessation of the mortgage interest supplement scheme would result in homelessness. If a parent in a one-parent family contracts a long-term illness, there is a real risk that the family will be on such a trajectory if some short-term support is not provided. This is a targeted short-term scheme and those who are...