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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 1556. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 517 of 19 May 2015, if the three companies granted options licences were not searching for petroleum, as defined as gas, oil and so on in the 1960 Mineral Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31841/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (23 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an explanation for the decision not to proceed with the DART underground project regarding north County Dublin and as an overall plan for the city transport network. [32368/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (29 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of tax reliefs claimed by landlords of private rental accommodation under the allowable headings against the tax paid on their rental income in 2013 and 2014. [33226/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Chaplaincy Services Provision (29 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that State-funded contracts are awarded on a sectarian basis by public bodies; if there are public procurement guidelines available which would ensure value for money within the third level education sector. [33378/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Chaplaincy Services Provision (29 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1198, 1199 and 1286 of 22 September 2015, if she is aware that the institutes of technology are in breach of public sector appointment criteria or the employment control framework for the sector regarding the recruitment of chaplains; the amount of that funding allocated to the institutes of technology...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Chaplaincy Services Provision (29 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1198, 1199 and 1286 of 22 September 2015, the steps that she and the Higher Education Authority will take to ensure that the institutes of technology that are in breach of the public sector appointment criteria or the employment control framework will abide by these criteria; and her plans to hold these...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her Department's strategy to combat food poverty; her views on the current level of food poverty in the population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33012/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: The most recent figures we received on food poverty were in 2013, when they showed that one in ten people suffered food poverty. This figure was one in nine in Donegal, the county with the lowest income levels. I have not been able to find updated figures to see whether the position has got better or worse. We know from the CEO of Crosscare, Michael McDonagh, that there is a growing demand...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: The response is just not good enough. The Tánaiste stated 220,000 children receive breakfasts and lunches. This is a welcome development for these children, but why is it happening? It is because people do not have enough money. They do not earn enough in their wages. It also affects pensioners. The minimum wage should be increased. People who lost their jobs are still unemployed....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: We should be dealing with this and using the opportunity to put money back into people's pockets and reverse the social welfare cuts. If core social welfare payments were to be brought back up to 2009 levels it would mean €40 extra a week for a couple and €27 extra a week for a single person. This is what needs to be put back into people's pockets.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: No, I am attacking you for going there with a big smile on your face and cutting those ribbons.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: It is amazing how the Tánaiste can turn things around. I was not attacking the food banks. They are necessary.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: What I am attacking is the policy of this Government and that which preceded it to implement the austerity measures which force people into situations whereby they must use food banks and must get breakfasts and lunches at school because the family income does not provide for children to be supported in this way. It is an attack on the Tánaiste's policies and the fact people must depend...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: I do not think that is the case. Will the Tánaiste deal with the core issue of putting money into people's pockets so they can proudly go out and buy goods rather than having to depend on food banks?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: Cheerleader for what?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: How did you bring Greece into it? This is about food poverty in Ireland.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding pledges made by the Government in 2014 to remove an anomaly in the insolvency payments scheme, whereby employees of a limited company which does not go into either liquidation or receivership are not covered by this scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33029/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: I raised this issue last year in respect of a case of which the Tánaiste would be well aware. It concerned a language centre that folded up, leaving the workers with nothing when they went to the insolvency payments scheme. We recently had another case where a sole trader ceased trading. The people who sought payment under the scheme were told the company had no insurance so,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: -----be paid. What has the Tánaiste done in the past year to try to resolve this anomaly?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: I am glad to hear there has been movement and that the Tánaiste and her Department are working on resolving the issue because workers find themselves in a very serious situation workers when a company folds in that way. In the recent case to which I refer, we were told the sole trader should have taken out insurance for insolvency purposes. If that is the position, why are sole traders...