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Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: ...Broughan, who was a TD for the community for 28 years and worked tirelessly to support and fight for the victims and their families: February 14th,1981 - 48 dead, 214 injured (over 80 seriously) out of 840 Stardust patrons ... Deep anguish and grief of Coolock and the whole Northside was hugely exacerbated by the conclusion of the Keane Tribunal Report in 1982. While most of the...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: .... Everybody is giving out misinformation. Those details are from the chief housing executive manager. I do not know where the resources or staff will be found to ramp up the scheme. I listened to Mr. Pat Greene from Dublin Simon Community last Thursday, who said no one knows what will happen on 1 April. He said Dublin Simon Community does not have the resources or any emergency...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: Dublin City Council's annual budget meeting was held last night. Six councillors voted against it, including Councillors Pat Dunne and Sophie Nicoullaud. I support their position. Between amendments and variations on vacancy refunds, the fundamental baseline of the budget is wrong. When the local property tax was introduced, it was clearly stated by the Government that the tax would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: ...office last week. There was a young couple with one young child who got the go-ahead to self-accommodate. The woman was on the phone ringing the hotels around Dublin city. Councillor Pat Dunne was on the phone to the family support unit. She eventually got a room that was available and the family support officer agreed. However, the hotel priced the room at €460 a night,...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: ...to point out that it was the midwives and the doctors who were saying this, and it was not him. On the point that was made by Deputy Connolly, after 14 February when Professor Higgins was on "The Pat Kenny Show", the Minister came out with a comment on Facebook stating that he shared the view that the allegations being made about the provision of services, "including by certain Dáil...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: ...Dublin City Council, DCC, to offer it the property for sale. He wanted to keep the family in their home. He was told that the council was not acquiring properties as before. Councillor Pat Dunne followed this up with the housing manager but was told that due to a directive issued by the Minister in December, DCC was prohibited from buying the property. In his reply to my question, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2020)

Joan Collins: ...rare muscle-wasting disease, spinal muscular atrophy, launched a campaign to have the drug, Spinraza, approved. The public and Deputies were targeted so they would support the campaign to ensure patients in Ireland would be reimbursed for the clinically proven and licensed drug. Many Deputies, including the Taoiseach and the now Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, supported the...

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: ...we still have masses every year where those who died during those years are remembered. A criminal element was developing in our communities at the time and the murder took place of Veronica Guerin. Mr. Pat Rabbitte, who was then a Minister of State , said the Government had not listened to the communities and that their voices were missing as regards what was happening and what people...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: ...noticing a few people going in with suitcases. We knew from residents to our rear that work was being done and windows were being opened up at the back of the premises. In December, Councillor Pat Dunne from our office put in a request to the Dublin City Council planning enforcement office for an investigation of that premises to take place, along with residents who were also concerned...

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)

Joan Collins: ...hold their heads in shame.These e-mails are very important, given that they come from the people who are affected by a sale of Aer Lingus. Another e-mail stated:As you will all be aware, Joe Costello, TD, stated publicly on the Pat Kenny show that deferred pensioners would be factored into any sale of Aer Lingus agreed by the Government. The Labour Party so-called Aer Lingus seven have...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Collins: The problem is that promises are made but they are broken. This has been referred to by Members on the other side of the House, particularly a former Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, when he indicated that statements are made before being elected but after the election, the opposite is done.

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: ...came into the flat, cut off the electricity, took off the front door and changed the locks on the main door of the building. The couple made contact with my constituency office and Councillor Pat Dunne, who works in the office, responded very quickly because the family were obviously distressed, fearful and did not know what to do or who to turn to. He went to the flat and managed to...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: ...and the dilution of political control of the police force. In 2001, while in opposition, the Labour Party introduced a Bill which called for an independent policing strategy. The current Ministers and then Deputies Eamon Gilmore, Brendan Howlin and Pat Rabbitte fully supported the legislation, arguing that ministerial power over the Garda was excessive, while the then Deputy Alan...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Joan Collins: ...led by a maverick employer. The company, which employed 750 people at that time, distributes Tipperary Water and Gilbeys Wines and made a profit of just under €5 million last year. The owner, Pat Cooney, threatened to sack half of his workforce in a depot in Borrisoleigh two years earlier when a group of workers joined a union. One of the drivers who joined the union was replaced...

Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2012)

Joan Collins: ...of €25 million the cut in the grant will purportedly achieve. Given that the respite care grant is the only payment given to 20,000 full-time carers, a cut of 20% is not modest, as the Minister for Communications, Energy and Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, claims. The Government is continuing the policy of the Fianna Fáil Party. Since the budget of 2009, carers' incomes...

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Joan Collins: ...in my constituency the "No" vote was between 70% and 80%. The "Yes" vote will change nothing in the terms of the deal and the bank debt and re-entry to bond market funding. It is just another pat on the head for the Taoiseach and a brutal "Nein" from Germany in terms of any deal on the bank debt. The Government is now in a trap of its own making. It claims that austerity and four years...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: ...economic development of the country. Did we not learn lessons from the sale of Telecom Éireann which later became Eircom? The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, stated the proceeds from the proposed privatisation would be used to deliver broadband services nationwide. If Eircom was in State hands, the Government could take a strategic...