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Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the public services card is mandatory or compulsory; and her views on whether elderly persons and other persons depending on social welfare payments should have their payments terminated for not agreeing to accept the card. [8306/18]

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: My question is a follow up to that posed by Deputy Curran. I do not know why the questions were not grouped. I met a lady last week who said she had asked for legal direction as to why she had to go through the process of getting a public services card. She had proof of identity, she was able to produce her passport and her marriage certificate and she did not get her payment. There has...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: There is a contradiction here. If a person does not provide the necessary SAFE 2 level identification - not the SAFE 1 level - then that person does not have a public services card. Is the SAFE 2 level saying that a person has to have a public services card? Will the Minister clarify if a person could use his or her passport or driver's licence? I shall give an example. The number of...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: Yes, I will. It follows on from this question.

Other Questions: Public Services Card Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is a legal requirement to accept a public services card if a card is needed to legally access some services; if the single customer view can be legally used for data sharing; if so, the legislation in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8338/18]

Other Questions: Public Services Card Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: With respect to the Minister, she is saying that the public services card, PSC, is going to become the predominant identification for accessing public services and beyond. I was talking to a young lad recently who wanted to apply for a driver's licence. He was told that he had to have a PSC. That means that there is a requirement for a PSC in that contradictory sense which the Minister has...

Other Questions: Public Services Card Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: It confuses the issue. There is huge concern that this is a sneaky way around introducing a national identification card. A similar process happened in Britain. They had a card called the entitlements card, which sounds very much like the PSC which was introduced here in 2005. The point was raised that additions have been made to that 2005 legislation 35 times, so many people do not know...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if instructions have been forwarded to Seetec and Turas Nua to cease terminating persons benefits with immediate effect if they decline to sign a private contract with a private company whilst they are still engaging with JobPath. [8304/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount lost to persons to date in cases in which they did not sign contracts with Seetec and Turas Nua. [8305/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: A few questions have been asked and I will not repeat them. The delegates seem to be emphasising that people go through the SAFE process. I have a question about a person has not gone through it and not received a public services card. I know that there is a system in place in the post office where one ticks a series of boxes, one of which concerns identification. I presume a person...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: How far do the delegates think the system will be extended? I know that they have talked about some people volunteering to use their public services car with electricity and other companies. It is a grey area. The company could then state it was seeking a form of identification and that it required the public services card because it was the best form identification there was. Things...

Severe Weather Conditions: Statements (27 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: I am sure many of us would have received emails from disabled people saying the HSE has contacted them to tell them it cannot guarantee that personal assistants will be around on Thursday and Friday. While I agree that workers cannot be forced to go out if conditions are very bad, how do we facilitate those people who need personal assistants who could be without them for 36 or 48 hours?...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (27 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 479. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to re-examine the issues arising from the withdrawal of Versatis pain relief plasters. [9910/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (27 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 643. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of funding for a proposed redevelopment (details supplied). [9909/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (27 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 756. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed regarding the response time for questions to Irish Water. [10070/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 780. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to support families who may potentially lose their family home (details supplied). [10181/18]

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: There has been much hand-wringing and crocodile tears shed in respect of the proposed sale by Permanent TSB of 18,000 distressed mortgages to unregulated vulture funds which the Taoiseach had control of under his watch. What Permanent TSB, Ulster Bank or potentially AIB are proposing to do is entirely in line with Fine Gael policy in government over the past five years. Tens of billions...

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach's Government saved the banking system but at a huge cost to ordinary people. It might seem that everything is fine. Bank of Ireland made a profit of €1 billion last year. It is paying a dividend to shareholders for the first time since 2008. The new chief executive is doing well too on €1 million a year. The European Central Bank, ECB, does not agree. There...

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: Bring in a public banking system and give people an alternative.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Status (28 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) was not allocated DEIS 1 status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10332/18]