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

Joan Collins: It is okay.

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

Joan Collins: I am not happy but I am not going to get much more out of it.

Other Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the survey on income and living conditions, SILC, 2013, which was published earlier this year and clearly shows that those persons living in households with one adult and one or more children had the highest deprivation rate at 63.2% and the highest consistent poverty rate at 23%, and the measures she will take to...

Other Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: Rather than hailing the change to lone parent benefits, working lone parents are actually not benefiting from the change to the lone parent payment, which is an indictment of the policy of this Government and is part of the austerity package that has been persistently implemented in this country. Those who need the most are bearing the brunt of austerity. We have got through nine and a...

Other Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: People expend a lot of time and energy try to put these questions.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: Some would say he is on Mars.

Social Housing Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: I welcome the debate and generally support the motion put forward by Sinn Féin. The current crisis in social housing provision is as a direct result of the this and the previous Government's policy of effective privatisation of the sector, whereby responsibility for the provision housing for those in need of social housing has been transferred to the private sector to private landlords...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Housing Provision (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her Department's role in alleviating the current housing crisis. [33028/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending children's allowance to those secondary school students who turn 19 years of age before their leaving certificate, as the cut-off at 18 years of age is a huge burden to those parents, particularly in low-income families; and the cost of reinstating a payment for these students. [33025/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views regarding the increasing call from housing and homeless agencies for an immediate increase in rent supplement levels to bring them into line with current market rents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33027/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rebates (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the position of value added tax refunds on aids and appliances used by disabled persons in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [33493/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: On the investment programme to fund the construction of 62,000 additional primary and post-primary school places, does the Department take into consideration that a percentage of parents will not want their children to go through mainstream religious schools? Some schools are going to have to be built specifically for parents who do not want to baptise their children. How is that worked out...

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: I am very pleased to participate in this evening's debate, which is timely following yesterday's release of the OECD report and next week's budget announcement. This debate is about tax justice. It is about inequality and where that inequality is, and whether that can change so that multinationals pay their fair share of tax rather than trying to hide their tax affairs under bushels...

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: They are paying no tax on their profits. The Deputy cannot say that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of tax breaks, in tabular form, outlining what they are designated for; and the amount of moneys provided in these tax breaks in 2012; 2013; and 2014. [34105/15]

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: It is hardly worth my while speaking for two minutes. I will take this opportunity to say that I take umbrage with some of what has been said by backbenchers on the Government side. I remind them that €30 billion was taken out of this economy and out of people's pockets. That is why we are in a position where things have turned around. After every recession we move into a boom, and...

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State and her colleagues have been in government for almost five years.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: Last year, drug task forces were given added responsibility for taking on alcohol issues and they have really embraced that work. We met recently with representatives of the Dublin 12 drugs and alcohol task force. They are concerned that the public health (alcohol) Bill will not go through. Will the Minister give a commitment that before the Dáil is dissolved, the legislation will be...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak about the budget. It makes me very angry, but even more than that, it makes me very sad to hear a Labour Party Minister gloat yet again about the brutal treatment of the Greek people by the European Central Bank, ECB, and the European Commission. The last thing Greece needed was an even more brutal prescription of increased austerity. Everyone knows,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rebates (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.79 of 30 September 2015, if the individual concerned, as a citizen of the European Union, may make a claim for a value added tax refund from the Revenue Commissioners, or equivalent agency, in the European Union state in which the appliance was purchased, given that the mobility appliance in question is not available for...