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Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: While there is much fanfair about job creation and the CSO figures, I raise this issue because people are facing the loss of permanent jobs that have good conditions, including holiday pay, entitlements, pension rights and everything that goes with those. This involves 530 employees in Xtra-vision, 1,000 workers in Tesco who were told that they had contracts that could be ripped up, and...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: These are good jobs.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: I am sure the bosses are quaking in their boots after hearing that reply from the Minister. He made a point about sympathy. Workers do not want tea and sympathy, they want their jobs. They want to be able to pay their mortgages. They want to be able to pay for food to be put on the table over the coming weeks. Xtra-vision gave no prior notice except to a small group of workers and it...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: The employers are still able to get away with it.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: The jobs to which I refer are full-time jobs.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: I came in to talk about Xtra-vision.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 77. To ask the Minister for Health his views on survivors of severe acquired brain injury depending on a maintenance programme in nursing home care rather than in proper rehabilitation therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3944/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 93. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding and services for survivors of severe acquired brain injury, including those currently provided, and the number of patients affected; and if he will improve these services in line with best practice with international agreements such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [3943/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the refusal by two insurance companies to insure a house (details supplied) in Dublin 9 that they claim is a flood risk area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4411/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a payment for a medical test by a person, details supplied, who has a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (3 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 89. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has reviewed the offer of €2 billion from the Irish League of Credit Unions to facilitate the building of social housing; the status of the process to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4503/16]

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: As I do not have too much time, I will cut to the chase. We know exactly the reason this debate is being held today in the Dáil. We know that the housing crisis continued under the Minister's watch although I would agree entirely that this started under the Government of Fianna Fáil. It is the result of a neoliberal politics which depended on developers to build homes and that...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: Where there is a will there is a way. If the Minister wanted to, he would have sorted that out and that funding would have been invested in local authority housing. It is outrageous and people on the doorsteps are saying they cannot understand a Government which is facing a housing crisis will not deal with this. The Minister states he has all the money to build the housing but we have not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: 351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients which are on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in University Hospital Galway for six, 12, 18 and 24 months, respectively. [5049/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: 352. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and how long the person will be waiting for surgery. [5051/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12 for six months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months. [5088/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Applications (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: 535. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the report from Dublin City Council regarding access routes to the site in Jamestown Road, Dublin 8, given that he referred in a reply to Parliamentary Question No. 589 of 15 December 2015, that he was expecting the report. [5089/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will revise her position on rent supplement and increase it due to the huge increase in family homelessness since the beginning of 2016 and respond to the call of the homeless agencies to increase it. [6278/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 18 November 2015, the position regarding the progression of the proposal from his officials. [6255/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Data (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 782. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of public moneys allocated to local authority water and sewerage departments and to Irish Water, as appropriate, from either motor tax or local property tax in each of the years 2009 to 31 March 2016. [6231/16]