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Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the conditions that would constitute enough childcare support and after school care in order that one parent payments would be cut at the age of seven in the future. [20951/12]

Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Anybody sitting in the Visitors Gallery would not know the question I asked was if the Minister for Social Protection would outline the conditions that would constitute enough child care support and after school care so that one parent payments would be cut at the age of seven in the future. This question has also been asked by groups such as Barnardos. Will the Minister provide evidence of...

Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: The Minister referenced them.

Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: The Minister has still not answered the question, which I asked so that we might debate the matter during our discussion on the amendments to the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012. As the Minister knows, there are not enough affordable child care facilities. Lone parents want to work, but seven years of age is too young to keep their children at home and there are not enough child care...

Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Family incomes are being cut.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I will try to deal with three areas of the Bill on foot of the arguments made by the Minister. Nobody would attempt to say lone parents do not want to work because they do. If the Minister were introducing her measure when jobs were plentiful, there might be some basis to her argument that it would be easy to get back into the workplace. However, we are in a recession. The legislation...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Yes, fair basis.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: That is because of high unemployment rates.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I will not repeat the points already made about the cuts facing us next week being brought into immediate effect. I will refer to some points the Minister raised. We are discussing child care facilities for couples who are married, cohabiting, lone parents and their children - it is all encompassing. As a society we must admit we have not delivered for anybody on child care. Child care is...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I will address the section on transition years in respect of the one-parent family payment. During the Minister's last intervention she made many points. The single most shameful matter with which Ireland has never dealt is the lack of a child orientation, particularly in terms of young children's education, after school and preschool services and supports. In the 1990s, the Labour Party...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I will be brief because much of the debate yesterday and today focused on why many of us in the Opposition are opposed to this amendment. I appeal to the Minister again to listen to what we are saying. Any person who takes out a mortgage is told repayment is a priority. One can cut one's private health insurance or cut down on going to the dentist, doctor, etc., but one must pay one's...

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the annual allowance and expenses each city and county manager received in 2010 and 2011. [21055/12]

Written Answers — County and City Managers' Association: County and City Managers' Association (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 165: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the dates on which written submissions were received from the County and City Managers Association in the period from the 1 January 2011 to date in 2012; the main matter covered in each submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21056/12]

Written Answers — County and City Managers' Association: County and City Managers' Association (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 177: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 379 of the 13 March 2012, in which he stated that he personally did not receive any written submissions from the City and County Managers Association, if officials in his Department received written submissions from the County and City Managers Association in the period...

Written Answers — Garda Transport: Garda Transport (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the two patrol cars that were assigned to Community Gardaí in Sundrive and Crumlin Village Garda Stations, Dublin are currently in the depot for repair with no replacement cars being made available; the reason this situation has arisen and the actions he will take to remedy it...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Will the Taoiseach answer the substantive question?

Protection of Employees (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2012)

Joan Collins: This is straightforward legislation. While it will not resolve all the problems arising in the area of protection of employees, its enactment would immediately strengthen and extend legislation aimed at protecting workers who have been made redundant. The Bill is supported by a number of the largest trade unions, including Unite, SIPTU and Mandate. Speaking at a briefing on the Bill...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 May 2012)

Joan Collins: The first time I had an opportunity to speak about survivors of clerical sexual abuse was a number of months ago, on the closing date for people to access the redress board. I opposed that for all the reasons outlined in the Dáil tonight. It must be seriously re-examined to see how the date can be extended to accommodate people who, for reasons we do not understand but which they...

Private Members' Business. Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion (8 May 2012)

Joan Collins: The budget saw the Government's attempt to cut disability benefit. It also cut the jobseeker's benefit for those aged from 18 to 21 from €188 to €100. We now have the threat to take PA hours away from those with disability and we have had cuts in the one-parent family allowance. These are some of the meanest cuts a government has ever made. However, this must be one of the most...

Written Answers — Job Protection: Job Protection (8 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding a company (details supplied) moving more than 300 jobs from Dundalk and Dublin to Northern Ireland, following on from the moving of 140 jobs last year to India and Egypt; and the contact he has had with the company in relation to said job losses. [22964/12]