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Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: I certainly will be on this side of the House. I have no confidence in the Taoiseach or the Government. I am sure he is not surprised by that statement but it does not just relate to the despicable treatment of Maurice McCabe and other whistleblowers over the past decade. I also have no confidence in the Government in terms of the housing and homelessness crisis. Nor have I any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7766/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (16 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: The situation in Tesco should be alarming to anyone concerned with decent work in this country, particularly Government. Over recent months, 900 full-time permanent jobs in a hugely profitable company have been lost. Not one full-time job has replaced them. Instead Tesco is now going after the remaining 250 workers on these decent contracts and trying to force them out the door. The...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (16 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: In an e-mail I received one of the workers in Tesco, Mark, states his mortgage, car loan and health insurance are all at risk. He and his colleagues, he continues, want to do a day's work and get on with their lives without a threat hanging over them. If the company gets workers on pre-1996 contracts, he warns, others must watch their backs because they will be next. I reiterate the...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (16 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: There has been an offer of talks but no one has agreed to take part because the contracts are still under threat.

National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: I fully support this Bill. I congratulate those who have campaigned tirelessly for a particular date to be set aside for a commemoration of the millions of people who died through starvation or had to flee this country 170 years ago. I was surprised to hear the suggestion that the Famine of the 1840s was the last famine in Ireland. When I was reading The Big Issuebefore Christmas, I came...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (21 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 310. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the annual figures since 2005 for appeals lodged with the social welfare appeals office querying a refusal based on the habitual residence condition, broken down by Irish citizens and non-Irish nationals. [8738/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (21 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 437. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of contracted service providers from the NGO, charity, religious bodies and voluntary sectors to the HSE; and the total sum provided for that service provision in 2016. [8294/17]

Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: I am pleased to support this important Bill, the Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016, brought forward by Deputy Cullinane and backed by a number of unions, including Mandate, the Technical Engineering & Electrical Union, TEEU, the Financial Services Union and ICTU. In recent years, Ireland has become a leader in the developed world for low-paid work, with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE high level officials group has made a recommendation on the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two to five age group and the R117h group of persons with cystic fibrosis eligible for these vital drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8974/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE approval on the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two to five age group and the R117h group contingent on additional funding is being provided by government to the HSE. [8975/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if the Cabinet will be making the final decisions relating to the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two to five age group and the R117h group; if so, when; and if not, the body that is making the final decision. [8976/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress to date on his commitment to a group (details supplied), that all homeless families in emergency accommodation will be housed by July 2017; and the number of families registered as homeless seeking emergency accommodation since he made that commitment. [8978/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency Funding (23 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount that has been lent to local authorities from the Housing Finance Agency for public housing build since it was set up; the detail of the local authorities that have drawn down the moneys; and the projected house build from these loans to date. [9012/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (23 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 99. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has established the fund to provide access for Magdalen laundries survivors to complementary therapies under the ex gratia scheme (details supplied). [9383/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Magdalen Laundries Report (23 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 290. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the mechanism to deal with health care for survivors of the Magdalen Laundries that live overseas, as referred to by the previous Minister on 24 September 2014. [9382/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: From the point of view of the citizen, the Citizens' Information Service and MABS have been very important in communities. The closer they are to communities, the better. When they are taken away, they become more distant and they cannot be accessed. There was a Citizens' Information centre in Ring Terrace in Dublin 8 which was moved to Thomas Street. When it came to elderly people and...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: I express my solidarity with and support for the Tesco workers and the union that took up this issue and also for the thousands of customers who did not pass the picket lines and did not shop in Tesco stores. The latter was an important act of solidarity which brought it to a conclusion, or to a stage where they will go into talks on Friday. The key point I want to make today is on the...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: In recent years, Ireland has become a leader in the developed world for low paid work. The survey on income and living conditions, SILC, report backs this up, finding 105,000 people in Ireland are the working poor, who are in employment but unable to escape poverty. The Minister of State is standing over this. Things must change. It is no accident that Tesco at this point in time decided...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: Tell Tesco that it cannot tear up contracts.