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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: Twenty, 28 and 35 hours.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: Would Mr. Egan be the right person to reply to Deputy O'Dea's question on the public campaign that could be launched next year advising people to go onto the JST rather than FIS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: No. The points I made have been addressed.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: In the run-up to the budget, people were treated to a phony war between Fianna Fáil, who are the architects of the crash in this country, and the Government, which carried on the baton and continued the austerity measures that ordinary people have faced over the last eight years. We were led to believe the key question in the budget was a dispute between Fianna Fáil and the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: 242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount which would accrue to the State if employers' PRSI was increased by 1%, 1.5% and 2% on all businesses and on businesses employing over 20 workers. [29269/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Inland Waterways Maintenance (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: 303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will investigate dangerously hanging trees on the river embankment of the River Camac in Dublin 8 (details supplied). [29239/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (11 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: 375. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if three items (details supplied) were implemented, it would have a significantly positive income effect for cancer patients whose income is immediately impacted upon through their illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29328/16]

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: I also agree that it is not productive to have people sitting in the Dáil until midnight. I appeal to the business committee to consider the option of an extra sitting on Fridays in order to allow people to come in if they need an extension of time. I also support the calls for a debate on Syria or, if necessary, CETA, which will be signed next week. They are two very important issues...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: 121. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to invest in home-based care to support and enable persons with dementia to remain living at home in budget 2017; and his views on whether an initial investment in the budget is necessary of at least €50 million plus which then must be built on year on year [30294/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Staff (18 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the chief executive of Sligo County Council has warned that libraries in the county will be subject to rolling closures until such time as his Department approves the filling of vacant library posts; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the chief...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (18 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will examine an issue (details supplied) and take measures to resolve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30842/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (18 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: 340. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer if budget 2017 had increased the €100 and €144 jobseeker's payments by €5; the amount it is costing to increase both by €2.70 and €3.80; and the number of young persons on the €100 payment and the €144 payment. [30864/16]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputy Broughan.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: I wish to give an overview of the Bill we are discussing. The publication of the long-awaited final report of the Mahon tribunal brought to an end the longest running and most expensive public inquiry in Irish history. The Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments, which was the tribunal’s official title, was established by the Minister for the Environment and...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: This is interesting to me as I did not know the background of what happened at that time with the political establishment, Professor Keane and the elements involved with implementing the national cancer control programme. I do not know if Professor Keane agrees but the first point seemed to be identifying the problem, as there was a big issue with cancer then. It was when Ms Susie Long died...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: I do not know either.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane (19 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: The question is whether legislation should be introduced to ensure the private sector would have to adhere to the same standards and be as responsible as the public sector.

Syrian Conflict: Statements (20 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: It is indisputable that all sides of the House condemn the role of the Assad regime. Before the war, that regime ruled by terror, brutality, torture and murder. The regime's response to peaceful demonstrations was a declaration of war on a significant section of its own people. Aleppo is a city that has been totally laid to the ground and is like Ground Zero in New York. It will be gone...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: In the past five and a half years, as an elected representative in the Dáil, I and my colleagues have supported five Bills that challenged the eighth amendment and the lack of access to abortion for women with diagnoses of fatal foetal abnormalities. Every time we had this debate, we came up against the eighth amendment. The eighth amendment has always been the problem. During the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (25 Oct 2016)

Joan Collins: 314. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the present yield of employer's PRSI at the rate of 8.5% and the 10.75% rate. [31642/16]

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