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Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I support the amendment as I did on Committee Stage, because it is a very sensible one. The Minister referred to double payment in regard to compensation on Committee Stage. Perhaps we should tease it out, but if a person is awarded €60,000, or two years' pay, on the basis of an unfair dismissal, the return of the social welfare payments should be on top of that. If the social...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I support the amendment because this measure blatantly discriminates against women in the context of the pre-1994 period. It must be examined and recommendations made as to how it can be addressed. I agree with previous speakers that there are other anomalies within the pensions system and a body of work needs to be done on that. A previous speaker referred to pensions being averaged out...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 8:In page 14, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“27. The Minister is to review section 11 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013 that closed the Mortgage Interest Scheme and shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas within 3 months of this Bill being enacted, setting out the options for introducing a targeted use of the...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: It is strange to hear the Minister express concern that the banks would make gains on the backs of people who find themselves in difficult circumstances. We bailed out the banks to the tune of €64 billion and citizens must repay the interest on this bailout every year. We also gave them millions of euro ostensibly to prevent repossessions at the start of the period of austerity. The...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: That would depend on the loan and the decision would rest with the banks.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the Lansdowne Road agreement, dealing with pay restoration for public service workers, is now unsustainable; and his further views on whether it is urgent that the Government sets a date for talks with trade unions representing public sector workers early in 2017 to discuss a new agreement to replace the Lansdowne...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I wish to ask the Minister his views on whether the Lansdowne Road agreement, dealing with pay restoration for public service workers, is now unsustainable, and his further views on whether it is urgent that the Government sets a date for talks with trade unions representing public sector workers early in 2017 to discuss a new agreement to replace the Lansdowne Road agreement.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: The Minister made the point earlier that the Irish Congress of Trade Unions made it very clear that there are two points it wants to deal with. The first is the acceleration of negotiations on pay restoration. That comes on foot of the Labour Court award to the Garda. Nearly everybody now takes the view, although the Government is not saying it, that the Lansdowne Road agreement is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: The Minister talked about affordability. I am taking about people who are members of unions who work in hospitals, schools, ambulance services and other public services. The issue of affordability for them relates to how they can continue to pay their way in society. Many of them have suffered huge cuts to their wages and household members have lost jobs. In spite of that they are still...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: The agreement cannot be in action.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: The Minister made points about the North. I am not a member of Sinn Féin but what is happening in Ireland and throughout Europe is a consequence of the neoliberal agenda governments across Europe have recently followed. We are going to see a winter of discontent next year on the part of workers. A group of workers has been given an award through the Labour Court, while other workers...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: 114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount a project (details supplied) has been granted by Limerick regeneration in 2016. [36608/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Statutory Instruments (29 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: 543. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a change to statutory instrument No. 654 of 2004, Maternity Protection (Protection of Mothers Who Are Breastfeeding) Regulations 2004, specifically the timeframe from six months to two years; and if school principals and boards are obliged to facilitate mothers who wish to pump breast milk during their working day. [37164/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: I understand that a memorandum went to Cabinet yesterday about an Opposition Bill, the thirty-fifth amendment of the Constitution (Irish Water to be retained in public ownership) Bill, which relates to our water supply. Given that we are supposed to have new politics, will the Minister send that memorandum to me, as the proposer of the Bill, and to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing,...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: The it is the thirty-fifth amendment of the constitution (Irish Water to be retained in public ownership) Bill.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: Will the memorandum be sent to the proposer of the Bill? This is supposed to be new politics.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: Can I have a copy of the memorandum that went to Cabinet yesterday?

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: The Minister, Deputy Coveney, spoke about all the things the Government has done and what is going to happen to increase the supply of houses. We have yet to see that happening. We heard the same thing from the previous Minister, Deputy Kelly. The same figures are being thrown out time and again. The rental sector has not been addressed. My constituency office deals with one or two...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing Regulation (30 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the treatment of hares is humane in view of recently reported incidents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37400/16]