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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of moneys raised from carbon taxes on an annual basis. [43385/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (17 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the medicines that have been removed by the MMP from the community drugs scheme; the amount the medicine cost the State before it was removed; the amount saved after its removal; and the number of persons receiving it before the medicine was removed from the list, in tabular form. [43931/17]

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome the motion and I will support it. I will also support the amendments. In budget 2012, a Labour Party Minister in her first budget cut the social protection budget by €475 million. This was following a cut of €810 million in 2010 and €515 million in 2009 under Fianna Fáil. In 2012, a total of €1.8 billion had been taken out of people's pockets,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter concerning the case of a person (details supplied). [44463/17]

Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I read the Minister's speech. All things being equal, it would have been a reasonable speech but for the actions of 1 October, which changed things drastically. People around the world were rightly shocked to see a modern state, a member state of the EU, use brutal police violence to stop EU citizens in Catalonia from exercising their right to vote in a referendum called by the Catalan...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I will start by referring to a headline - Republic of Homeless? - which was followed by some facts: 8,270 homeless people; 3,048 homeless children; more than 73,000 mortgages in arrears; 120,000 people on local authority housing lists; 141 repossessions taking place per month; two families becoming homeless per day; 46% of all homeless people are under 24 years of age; life expectancy for a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: English Language Training Organisations (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the working conditions of English language teachers in private schools (details supplied). [45344/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: English Language Training Organisations (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I will read out the full question because the details have been included, which I did not request. Will the Minister address the working conditions of English language teachers in private schools? There are approximately 120 of them. Will he lay down standards in the industry that do not only adhere to basic employment law but exceed it to ensure these wealthy schools treat teachers as any...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: English Language Training Organisations (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. The Government keeps coming back to us and saying there is the Workplace Relations Commission process. The Minister of State knows that some of the issues that affect teachers in the sector, such as bogus self-employment, the absence of employment contracts and paying less to non-native teachers, breach legislation and can be tackled through a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: English Language Training Organisations (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: There is a huge opportunity here with the Bill, which is going through committee, to address the demands I have raised. If the State can legislate for the size of desks, the classroom temperature, the ownership, administration and health and safety, why can the State not legislate for workers' rights? Unite, the union representing 100 workers - it is not 50% of the workforce; it is about...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I support amendment No. 13. A 24-month review is much better and provides more time to evaluate the situation. I wish to speak in particular to amendments Nos. 15 and 17. I support the amendments for all the reasons Deputy Barry outlined. I remember that when the Oireachtas committee discussed the issues with the experts, workers in the Oireachtas asked members of Fianna Fáil what it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I support the amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: How does the Minister intend to do that? Will they all be listed?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be transferred to a more suitable HSE area in view of the fact that the area they are in does not provide the required level of service for their needs. [45467/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I want to speak to Part 1 of the Short Title, collective citation and commencement and the amendments being ruled out of order on that part of the legislation.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: No, it relates to the first section of the Bill.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I believe nine of the amendments which have been ruled out of order relate to section 1 of the Bill. I cannot understand how some amendments dealing with a request for a report conservation grants, swimming pools and a campaign in schools and so on, can be ruled out of order on one hand and on the other be in order. In the amendments on a referendum, they provide that one would take...

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I will finish on this point, because it is very important.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Deputy O'Sullivan spoke on the referendum. It was the main point of principle. Fianna Fáil supported it; everybody supported it. We even have pictures of Deputy Barry Cowen signing the referendum charter for SIPTU-----

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: -----indicating that he would support a referendum on public ownership of our water.