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Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I will be formally moving Deputy Shortall's amendment.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: On our amendment No. 32, I welcome the fact the Minister and the Department have come back to the 12 months and are not pushing the original 18 months. It is hugely welcome.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I very much welcome this development. This was a call by Mandate. It was originally for six months, the committee changed that to nine months and Mandate put forward the 12 months. I am delighted that is what will be implemented. I want to make one point about the retrospective look-back. The Minister is ensuring that the period will not begin post-enactment. The period will not be 12...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 36: In page 14, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(15) In the event of hours becoming available an employer shall be required to offer any surplus hours to existing part-time employees first.”. This is a very important amendment. It is based on the Directive 97/81/EC on part-time workers, which this country has not implemented yet....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: It is one of the key parts of the Bill. It has been an EU directive since 2004. Other countries have implemented it as part of their employment legislation. I would be inclined to put it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I will withdraw my amendment No. 41 and will support the amendment of Deputies Cullinane and Brady. We are not only trying to deal with low-paid workers. we are also trying to deal with secure hours, and that is the issue here. The difference between 25 and 34 hours is nine hours and that is quite a lot for an employer to reduce if they want to. It involves a lot of money for people who...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I wish formally to move Deputy Róisín Shortall's amendment.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (22 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Dublin 8 and 12 were not included in his recent announcement (details supplied) regarding the establishment of new schools. [22392/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (22 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 413. To ask the Minister for Health if the central patient data project has been finalised; if it is at full operational capacity in St. James's Hospital; the name of the information technology company that installed it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22528/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 416. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter relating to a person (details supplied). [22534/18]

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the people of Dublin South-Central for their courteous and respectful response on the doorstep, regardless of whether they favour "Yes" or "No". There is a very strong indication that there will be a "Yes" vote from Dublin South-Central. While people have indicated a "Yes" vote, it is really important that people go down tomorrow between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. and plan their day to do...

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Joan Collins: The programme for Government states:To this end the new Government will introduce a new model of affordable rental by working with housing associations and local authorities to develop a “cost rental” option for low-income families, as recommended by the NESC. The new Minister for Housing will provide leadership, work with all relevant stakeholders, and will set out in the...

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Some 55% in NAMA.

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Joan Collins: At the cost of rent they cannot afford it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 78. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 1 May 2018, the reason for the inpatient day case action plan failure to provide the NTPF scheme to patients that are transferred from waiting lists in one hospital to another hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23234/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (29 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 82. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the monitoring of the cost efficiencies in test strip usage begin; and if he will request the HTAG to bring forward the review of FreeStyle Libre to a maximum of six months from the date the monitoring began. [23228/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (29 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 354. To ask the Minister for Health the bed capacity of University Hospital Sligo in 2008; the bed capacity of the hospital at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23235/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (29 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 355. To ask the Minister for Health the resource capacity being allocated to implement the alcohol action plan strategy in drugs task forces, for example, in the canal communities local drug & alcohol task force, CCLDATF. [23236/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (29 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 424. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being put in place to provide 92 children that attend a school (details supplied) speech and language therapy and occupational therapy; and if the children will have access to the July provision. [22221/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (29 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care hours available from Old County Road public health centre, Dublin 12 on 1 January 2018 and 1 April 2018 (details supplied). [23227/18]