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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (10 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 91. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation while welcoming the small increase in total employment in the year to June 2013, if he is concerned that the numbers in work for the 25-34 and 20-24 age groups actually declined in the same period. [42823/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: When I first came into this Chamber, I welcomed the coalition of cuts. Unfortunately for the people, whether working men or women, young people, a person who has lost a job or a young person hoping to get a job in the future, this budget does nothing to address the key problems facing them. The economy remains stagnant; we still face a mortgage crisis and the jobs crisis has not got away....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Investment Fund Capital (15 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether at least €3 billion from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, now formally established with €6.3 billion funding from the National Treasury Management Agency, be fast tracked into a jobs stimulus programme for 2014 and 2015. [42823/13]

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: He asked the Taoiseach to reverse the cuts.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: We need to create the jobs for them.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Road Improvement Schemes (16 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 81. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will arrange for the hardcore re-surfacing of the access road, walkers path from the old monastic carpark at Glendalough up to the old mines at the Wicklow Gap (details supplied). [43709/13]

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: By cutting social welfare?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 15. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that child benefit is retained at its current level; that adult social welfare rates are retained at current levels; that family income supplement is maintained in its current form; if she will seek a raise in the rates for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance, and maintain the budget for the school meals...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (17 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection from January 2014 workers retiring will not be able to avail of their State pensions until they are 66 years of age, the way persons retiring next year at 65 years of age will engage with social welfare; if she has made provision for these retirees; if they receive the transition payment to 67 years of age; if they have to sign on for jobseekers,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (22 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 492. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [44159/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (22 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 502. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent Crime and Abuse Experienced by Sex Workers in Ireland - Victimisation Survey carried out by UglyMugs.ie which found that only 5.5% of indoor sex workers who had experienced crime received any useful help or support from the women's health project; if he is concerned that these findings indicate the project is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 536. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 is entitled to funding from the Health Service Executive. [44438/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local and Community Development Programme Staffing (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 3. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether, given that local development companies are almost exclusively funded by State money, his Department is acting as shadow employer in view of the changes alignment will bring about for workers; his views on whether there must be meaningful engagement between workers' representatives and his Department...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local and Community Development Programme Staffing (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for his reply. I have raised in this House the issue of access by workers to proper representation in terms of the affects of alignment on their jobs. There has been no consultation with workers. While a meeting was held between workers and departmental officials, as stated, no further progress has been made. When I last raised this issue with the Minister during the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local and Community Development Programme Staffing (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: There must be.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local and Community Development Programme Staffing (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: The point is that it is not. There is a serious problem in this regard. The Minister, Deputy Hogan, initiated the alignment of the local development companies and has instructed them to move in a different direction. It is incumbent upon him as Minister, in seeking to change how these local development companies operate, to insist that worker representatives are recognised and heard and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Gender Recognition Bill 2013: Discussion (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: I will not take long because most questions have been asked about the legal issues and there is no point in my repeating them. I thank the witnesses for attending. I work off my gut instinct and when something is right, I know it is right. From recent meetings and from talking to people I am aware of the reality of the situation and it is for society to address the reality rather than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Gender Recognition Bill 2013: Discussion (23 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: Can it not be changed?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: The Minister and the Labour Party have repeatedly claimed that they have protected core welfare payments. The Minister did so again today, claiming that the basic rates of core payments would not be changed. This is a narrow interpretation and does not stand up to scrutiny. I presume that, for a Labour Minister, the core welfare payments are the jobseeker's benefit and allowance, the old...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: They have suffered under Fianna Fáil and the current Government in the past six years - cuts in home help hours, the abolition of the Christmas bonus, last year's €20 million cut in the fuel allowance, cuts to household packages, including telephone allowances, and increased prescription charges. Many elderly people who live alone in isolated communities use their landlines for...