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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Gender Recognition Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: I apologise for intervening but will Dr. Philip Crowley not be making a presentation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Gender Recognition Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: I will not take too long. I thank the witnesses for attending. Everyone I heard has put forward a profound argument that the legislation is falling down in two or three key areas. Today, the point was made about sport as well. That is an issue I had not grasped. Hormones can arise as an issue. Perhaps Dr. Crowley could respond on access to sport in the context of preferred gender. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Gender Recognition Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: I have another question for Dr. Crowley. All cases must be backed up by medical support based on young children beginning to realise they are not happy in their skin. What sort of medical provisions must be put in place and does the HSE have the ability to do it?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: I oppose this section. I cannot understand how the Minister could include this cut. There is no point in comparing small figures. A tax of 0.5% on the assets of the wealthy would yield €250 million. This is according to the Nevin Economic and Research Institute, NERI, and TASC, not me or anyone else. This is a fact. I wish to quote the Minister from 2010 when the late Brian...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: In just two years, the Minister has cut child benefit to €130. She cut it last year and is doing so again this year.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: The Minister is part and parcel of the cabal that has brought this country to its knees in the past ten years. I urge her not to dismiss the Opposition, but to listen to the people who need this money. A mother or someone who is adopting a child needs that support of nearly €900, but the Minister is unilaterally cutting their heads off in terms of bringing their children up in a good...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: Once again I will bring the Minister back to 2010 when she said:The experience of past recessions shows the legacy of the past three years will be long-lasting. Unemployment at an early age can leave permanent scars. Many studies have shown that someone laid off during a recession suffers an earnings loss even when he returns to the labour market. He [or she] returns to less well-paid...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: The Minister also said that having compared IMF deals for other countries she cringed for the small humiliations included entirely unnecessarily in the Irish deal. She thought that the Government ought to have had the courage to at least say "No" to a few of those. Will the Minister please say "No" to a few of these cuts?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: Again, I will quote from what the Minister, Deputy Burton, had to say in Opposition in 2010. Just how much she has changed her position since then is quite revealing. She said:I believed the Government, including the Minister, would have had something to say about the people who are under water or in difficulty with their mortgages, particularly after the Government Members' experience of...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: Currently, there are 100,000 people in mortgage crisis. A recent report on local authorities indicates that they are also experiencing a crisis in respect of home loans. The Minister's response is to cut the mortgage interest supplement, which is assisting people in keeping their heads above water. As regards the Minister being a wonder-woman, which comment the Minister welcomed this...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: It is only people who can afford to go into the resolution process who are going into it.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: It will not be there for a couple of years.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: The Minister is not offering them resolution.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: A couple still owes €183,000 in the Minister's example.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (5 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 88. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he intends to take to improve the operation of GSOC as it requested. [45974/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (5 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 86. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans in relation to the cases submitted to his office on 17 October 2013 by residents from across the State in relation to allegations of Garda malpractice. [45975/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authorities Management (5 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 681. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that where a cathaoirleach-mayor requisitions a special meeting of a local authority under Schedule 10 of the Local Government Act and the meetings administrator and city-county manager refuse to issue a notification for the meeting, then a valid meeting of the local authority...

Cannabis Regulation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to debate this complex issue. Although this motion will be voted down, there is a need for ongoing informed debate on the issues. I commend Deputy Flanagan on introducing the motion in the Chamber. The drug problem in society is not just a question of cannabis use. It concerns the estimated 20,000 heroin addicts in the country and the 10,000 people on so-called...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Child Abduction (6 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he has taken to return a person (details supplied) from Egypt to Ireland. [47292/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authorities Management (7 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that legal advice presented to the current mayor of Sligo confirms that a meetings administrator designated by a county manager who fails in the obligation to issue notification to councillors for statutory meetings of the borough council is in clear breach of statutory duty;...