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Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: My contribution to tonight's debate will concentrate on lone parents. All sections of society were hammered during the recession and the fact that the Minister is giving €5 here and there and increasing jobseeker's allowance for young people under 25 by €2 shows where society has gone. People will never see the full restoration of what they received before the recession in...

Irish Sign Language Report: Motion (10 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I congratulate the justice committee for bringing this report to the Dáil. It has been a very important debate. We have had this debate previously, but this time we have the legislation which Senator Mark Daly brought to the Seanad a number of months ago, which is very important and must be worked on. I would like to hear the Minister of State when summing up state he will support...

Mental Health Services Funding: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I welcome the debate on mental health reform. I believe this should be debated every couple of months in order to have checks and balances in this regard. I particularly support Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's point about having a monitoring group looking into this every six months and checking where we have come from and where we have not addressed issues that need to be addressed. The most...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: 588. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove a tablet (details supplied), which is prescribed for macular degeneration of the eyes, from the hardship scheme. [34991/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: 589. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove any item now accessible under the hardship scheme from the hardship scheme. [34992/16]

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: Yes.

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I should be sharing my time with somebody. I do not know who.

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill the Minister introduced, though he could have done better. The establishment of the national school system in the 1830s was a tremendously progressive step forward. The Stanley letter of 1831, which is the legal basis of our national school system, contains some core principles for publicly funded, that is, national schools. First, they would...

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: That is not a good statement to make.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I support the amendment, although not particularly because councillors will see the benefit of it but because a person, if he or she makes a contribution, should receive some social benefit from it. I had Civil Service status when I joined the post office in 1979 and made a class of PRSI contribution that offered no benefits under the social insurance system either. If any amount is paid,...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I wanted to see something in the Bill to help lone parents and piggybacked on the amendment tabled by Deputy John Brady. It is an important amendment. I wish to bolster the argument made for it. Disregarding the Minister's position on poverty levels, organisations such as Bernardos, Social Justice Ireland and SPARK, as well as the Crosse-Millar report, all emphasise that there is a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I welcome the Minister's point but would like some clarity. He spoke about an independent report, rather than a slight change to the wording, within six months. I am concerned by this as the Minister has only recently had an independent report from Millar and Crosse. The Minister has said that the report was not evidence-based, was not broad enough, it gave too narrow a focus and that it...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 6:In page 7, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following:"Report on one parent family payment changes 11.The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the financial and social effects of the changes to the One-Parent Family Payment since 2015, taking into account poverty rates among those in receipt of the payment and that the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: Before discussing the substantive issue, I wish put on the record with regard to amendments on pensions on Report Stage that Deputy Clare Daly wishes to state that the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2013 introduced what were called single insolvencies, which allow a profitable private company to wind down their pension scheme and to remove pension scheme members from existing pension...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I listened to the Minister. FLAC will be in contact with him and I will contact it as well. The Minister is saying that, under the EU regulation, customers who are non-nationals must verify their eligibility for child benefit every six months. If that happens anyway, why is he introducing legislation allowing their employers to be contacted as well? In how many cases has the Department...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I am happy to accept that if the Minister will forward us the information in question.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I wish to comment.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: Is that Deputy Smith's amendment?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: Sorry, I was speaking in the Dáil on the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I will speak briefly on this because I have raised something similar. In an unfair dismissal case, the employer must be made to pay the State and then pay the person who has been unfairly dismissed, but surely the person who was unfairly dismissed and left in limbo for a period of time should not bear the brunt of any unintended consequences. I support the amendment, but if the Minister is...