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Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: No.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: I accept that the Minister has taken on board some of the points we have made. However, the issue in regard to pension schemes, as set out in section 6, must be dealt with. Otherwise there will remain a serious inequality, whereby agency workers will not have the same arrangements as full-time employees. Will the Minister review this matter? A person's entitlements on retirement is an...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 26: In page 20, after line 24, to insert the following: "26.—The employment agency and the employment to which the agency worker is assigned shall be jointly and severally liable for all breaches of this Act with the exceptions of the matters of facilities and amenities for which the employer who is end user shall be solely responsible.". My colleagues and I wish to...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 27: In page 20, after line 24, to insert the following: "26.—In the event of an agency worker being denied access to amenities or facilities to which he or she is entitled a minimum compensation of €1,000, increasing in line with the Consumer Price Index, shall apply in addition to an order compelling the employer to give such access." The amendment was tabled in...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: We discussed this issue earlier and we recognised the fact that it takes almost a year and a half to have a case heard by a Rights Commissioner. A penalty such as this would deter employers from denying workers access to their amenities and facilities and I would like the amendment to be accepted.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Yes.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: The reality for ordinary people is completely different from what is set out in the Government amendment. The Sinn Féin Party's proposal is far more representative of the true situation. This morning the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine issued an alarming statement on the crisis in hospitals throughout the State, with a particular focus on children's hospitals. At Crumlin...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Social Protection, following on from recent press statements about the level of reporting of social welfare fraud, if she will release to this Deputy and the media the actual percentage of proven fraud, not just suspected fraud, as it relates to the €25.9 million figure for 2010; her views on these matters, especially in relation to her poor...

Written Answers — Local Government Audit Service: Local Government Audit Service (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that by majority vote on 19 December 2011, the members of Sligo County Council adopted the council budget for 2012 presented by the county manager; if his attention has been drawn to comments (details supplied); if he has examined the said budget and, if so, whether...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (28 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 527: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he allocated for the regeneration of an estate (details supplied) in County Sligo, in 2011; the amount spent by Sligo Borough Council on the regeneration programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11263/12]

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Deputy Mattie McGrath put much work into this Bill, which I support, in terms of looking at legislation in other countries, such as in England and in states in the United States of America, to see how they brought in legislation to regulate the area of metal and precious metal. Between 2009 and 2010, we all saw these cash for gold shops springing up around the city which correlated with the...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: The title of the Bill indicates that its purpose is to facilitate, in the public interest, the financial stability of the EU and the safeguarding of financial stability in the euro area as a whole. I note the insertion of the term "public interest" but would it not be more honest to insert the term "in the interests of the European banking system"? What has happened in Greece cannot be...

Written Answers — Local Authority Budgets: Local Authority Budgets (6 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that it is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities in the context of its annual budgetary process; and in this context the reason he is in ongoing consultation with Sligo County Council in relation to its 2012 budget, in view of the...

Written Answers — Health Centres: Health Centres (6 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 532: To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans for the building in which the current health centre is located in Ballyfermot, Dublin 10. [12325/12]

Turbary Rights: Motion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, Tom Fleming, Healy-Rae, Mattie McGrath and Wallace.

Turbary Rights: Motion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Obviously, I support this motion put forward by Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association, which I signed. I also welcome the opportunity to express my solidarity with my rural brothers and sisters. Attempts often are made in the Dáil in particular to create a rural-city divide and opportunities such as this debate demonstrate that one should have...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: The Labour Party should be ashamed of itself for contemplating a sale or part sale of State assets. To sell such assets would be a wanton and criminal act. The view of people on the street is that our assets are not the Government's to sell. The feedback the United Left Alliance is receiving is that people are angry that the Labour Party is even contemplating the part sale of State assets....

Waste Management (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 3: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his views that the policy of charging for local domestic waste collection services (details supplied) and the resulting privatisation of such services has been a failure, has impacted negatively on the environment and has the potential to create a serious public health hazard and that essential public...

Waste Management (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. We are speaking about the present. There is mayhem in our communities, with four or five different private companies going down the same street on different days. So much for the polluter paying or trying to protect the environment, because this totally turns that on its head. Greyhound, which serves the Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council areas,...

Waste Management (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: I think the Minister should.