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Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I, too, have huge doubts and reservations around this and will be opposing the Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017. It is hugely ironic. When I joined the post office in 1979 as a post office clerk, within one year equal pay was introduced for women in the workplace. That legislation came in from Europe as equal pay for work of equal value. Decades on, because the EU banks operated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will bring a complete report to Cabinet on the pension anomaly introduced in 2012. [50316/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Data (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of appeals received and processed by the Revenue Commissioners in each of the past five years from 2012 to 2016. [50847/17]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Everything is moving very quickly and I wonder where the rest of the committee is. In respect of the payments that are coming in March-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I was going to speak on the paragraph.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: No, section 13, which we were on.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I want to speak on this to try to slow down the process a little bit. When does the Minister think she will revert back to payments on 1 January? Will it be 2019 or 2020? Will the pattern of the future be that payments will be made a quarter of the way through the year? From when it first started in 2015, people have fallen behind by three months. When will that be recouped?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 30:In page 13, after line 38, to insert the following new section:"Report on the pension bands and rates 17.The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Dáil a full report regarding the impact of "the 2012 Pension anomaly" on recipients and re-instating the pre 2012 bands and rates to all those affected by the "anomaly"...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: The Minister has said that there is no doubt that the Cabinet sub-committee will accept the report. As we do not know what is in the report, we do not know what the sub-committee is accepting. What if the Cabinet sub-committee does not accept the report? This is a danger. It is not 100% definite. The Minister is not stating she knows the paper or the resolution will be accepted. I do not...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: It is a resolution.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: When is it?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I support the amendment. When a loved one dies, the bereaved are all over the place emotionally. They should not be forced to go to a community welfare officer and beg for support or else go to a loan shark. It should be automatic for them to access that money as the bereavement grant did in the past. The grieving process is hard enough without having the problem of getting money to bury...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I support this amendment. The cut, from six weeks initially to five weeks now, has put huge pressure on people. Fuel poverty exists and it should be acknowledged and recorded for posterity, particularly when the big companies are talking about fuel increases in February or March next year, which will put further pressure on people. We might consider the potential of having it index-linked...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: What timeframe does the Minister have in mind?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I want to support the amendment. It addresses an area the Government has consistently not looked at in respect of raising money. In other European countries, utilising employers' PRSI to provide services for their citizens is a key and significant factor. Although I cannot currently lay my hands on the figures, an increase of 2% in employers' PRSI would garner over €1 billion. That...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: May I ask a question? The witnesses might take it on board. Perhaps I am wrong.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I tabled a parliamentary question on employer's PRSI. I asked for a breakdown of companies with fewer than 100 employers and those with more. I was told that figure could not be established. It is important to find that figure out, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, so that we can know how it would impact on them.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I will do that.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach has stated he does not see the urgency for a referendum on the public ownership and management of our water. There is a visiting delegation from Slovenia, which last year introduced a change to its constitution to ensure its water resources remain in public ownership. This is not because of a direct threat but rather so that in future big corporations would not have an...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I have put forward amendment No. 15, which is very similar to amendment No. 12 in the name of Deputy John Brady. On Committee Stage we agreed we would table a similar amendment to ensure the Minister comes back to us with that report - or a paper, as she put it - on the 2012 changes and what they mean for these women, in the main, and men. We have gone through a long process and do not...