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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: Thank you.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: The most important question, probably, is how the employers' group defines bogus self-employment. I beg to differ with the remarks made regarding the construction industry. In 1999, the Committee of Public Accounts instructed Revenue to investigate bogus self-employment in construction. That investigation found that 20% of people were found to be misclassified as self-employed. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: The point was made about 2017 and the misclassification and the €60 million and so on. However, Ms Winters did not acknowledge that in 1999 the Committee of Public Accounts instructed Revenue to investigate bogus self-employment in the construction industry. A level of 20% was identified. This is not something that only happened in 2017 or 2015; it goes back to 1999. What I am...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: I was hoping the Minister for Health would still be here. In recent times we have been informed that cervical tests were being delayed because of a lack of capacity in the laboratories that test them but over the weekend it was reported that women paying privately receive their results in two to three weeks, which is brilliant for them but not for the 78,000 women who have been waiting up to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (3 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if proposals brought to Cabinet to protect persons trapped in bogus self-employment will include new legislation and stronger enforcement regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15620/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce legislation on bogus self-employed contracts; if so, the parameters of the planned Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15510/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: I attended the meeting last week with IBEC, whose attitude is quite astounding. It is the case that while we have not seen definite figures for people who came forward in the requested survey, we know that bogus self-employment occurs in various sectors, including those relating to journalists, English language teachers, pilots, construction and couriers. I received an email from a young...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Payments (4 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has taken or is planning to take to accelerate the payment process for the working family payment (details supplied). [15599/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Would the Tánaiste not think of approaching the HSE in order to bring the strike action to an end?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: I think we have an impersonator in the Dáil Chamber to talk about children, given what happened to lone parents when she was Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Further to Deputy Barry's question to the Tánaiste, the Minister for Health has stated publicly that he wants to see a resolution of the ambulance paramedics dispute, not confrontation. What the Tánaiste has proposed today is not in any way a solution. The HSE is refusing to talk to the paramedics. It has even refused to discuss contingency plans for today's strike action and the...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Yet again we have a Private Members' motion on housing, or the lack thereof. I have no problem supporting motions or Bills on housing that put forward progressive arguments, strategies and proposals to go some way towards resolving the housing emergency we face. I agree with many parts of the Private Members' motion put forward by the Labour Party, but I want to ask a question which perhaps...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: It accelerated the crisis.

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Some 75% of social housing tenancies are now being provided through private landlords. That is absolutely outrageous. The HAP is being used as a long-term answer to housing need rather than a short-term measure. I will finish on this note, as I notice the time passing. Thanks to the Labour Party, €390,000 was spent on HAP for 500 households in 2014 but by last year,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: This issue has been brought up on the floor of the Dáil possibly every week in recent weeks. That is reflective of how unjustifiable Members feel it is that these workers are not getting the chance and the recognition to join the union of their choice. The PNA branch went on strike yesterday, which was the sixth strike it has had in recent months and it had an action day on 27 March...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: I am also very disappointed. It is the standard reply that we have been getting even though we were hoping that this was moving on behind the scenes in at least having some sort of negotiation with the officials and representatives from the PNA. NASRA represents nearly 500 members. When the HSE stopped collecting the dues from members' pay, it had about 350 members. Another 150 to 200...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (16 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in the Dublin 8 and 10 areas diagnosed with a need for an ASD unit placement for primary school through assessments of needs. [17743/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (16 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in the Dublin 6, 6W and 12 areas diagnosed with a need for an ASD unit placement for primary school through assessments of needs. [17745/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (16 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 12 March 2019, if he will provide a list of the schools (details supplied). [17750/19]