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Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: The news on 26 June was devastating for the workers in Cork mail centre. I have raised questions about the management going down late in the evening to inform workers before the board meeting the following day, where they were going to make the official announcement that Cork mail centre was the one. I support the motion and I am glad it is being discussed in the House. I am a member of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (3 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if the main contractor (details supplied) fully complied with the community nursing unit contract in relation to the €18 million community nursing unit on Tymon North Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if he will provide the supporting evidence to ensure that the main contractor and its sub-contractors are fully compliant with all employment law as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (3 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: 349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the main contractor (details supplied) fully complied with the community nursing unit contract in relation to the €18 million community nursing unit on Tymon North Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if she will provide the supporting evidence to ensure that the main contractor and its sub-contractors are fully...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: I will. I was one of the signatories to the letter to the Minister for Health requesting a meeting. The Minister responded in April that he would not agree to that meeting but that he would instruct his departmental officials to speak to the HSE. We raised it yesterday as a Topical Issue but we did not get a satisfactory response. We now have the situation where the Minister for Health,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: Refer it to the Labour Court.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a report (details supplied) that nearly 2 million homes need to be refitted; and his plans to fund and target these homes as part of the Climate Action Plan 2019. [28584/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if SEAI payments to contractors will be investigated in view of information from a company (details supplied) that payments for contracts are not being paid for up to 12 to 16 weeks after the job has been completed. [28583/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Housing Issues (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a recent report (details supplied) that the capacity, condition and connectivity of housing here is of serious concern and that 600,000 persons are living in damp or rotting homes. [28582/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the new payroll system that came into effect on 2 June 2019 for ambulance workers does not recognise Sunday, bank holidays, overtime, premium and subsistence payments (details supplied); his views on whether it is unacceptable that workers are not being paid in full wages per week; and if the HSE will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: I opposed the reduction of social welfare payments to people under 26. Doing that created a situation whereby a divide came in. It was presented as though people's kids were living at home, they did not need that much, they were being given their dinner at home and so on. It did not consider that minorities are affected very differently by homelessness, direct provision or people having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: When people leave direct provision and are homeless, would they go directly onto homeless HAP? Are they treated differently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: We are discussing people in direct provision specifically here, but I recall seeing that there was difficulty with non-Irish nationals' access to rent and HAP.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: Finally, on the hearing aid grant, the Minister has simply refused to meet Chime. She has not accommodated it with a meeting to listen to a very basic appeal for people on low incomes or the minimum wage cannot afford to get hearing aids.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: Mr. Byrne said he thought it would cost €15 million to €20 million to get to the UK level but he was not asking for that. How does he see it being incrementally brought up to that level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. Byrne. It is based on health inequality.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: It recently came to light at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health that private facilities, with separate entrances, would be provided at the new maternity and children's hospitals. These hospitals are being built with State funding at a high cost. A key element of the Sláintecare reforms of the health service is the removal of private practice from the public health system. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: I asked the Taoiseach a simple question and I expected a simple answer. I only spent one and a half minutes asking my question so that the Taoiseach could not go off on a tangent. I asked a simple question. Will the Taoiseach make the de Buitléir report available to this House as soon as possible? I am referring to this week. The report has been in the hands of the Minister and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: We have not read it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: We are talking about Sláintecare.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: It is all costing the taxpayer.