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Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputies Tom Fleming and Joe Higgins. The failure to achieve a write-down to the cost of the bank bailout is a huge millstone around the neck of every citizen and it is one of the reasons we are facing a budget of this nature next year and the year after. The notion that is the final tough budget and that if people straighten their backs, they will come out of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties Collection (12 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding fuel tax and excise duty allowances for persons with a disability in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47666/13]

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: I resent Members who laugh at a colleague when he is making a point on a serious issue like this one.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: The Government parties, which they were in opposition in the period from 2007 to 2010, made the same points to Fianna Fáil when that party imposed austerity on the people as those that are now being made to the Government. The then Deputy Jan O'Sullivan stated: "the-----

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: -----Labour Party will be vigorously opposing... [the medical card legislation] on all Stages." She said that in 2008.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: The then Deputy also stated:The granting of a legal right to a medical card to citizens when they reach the age of 70 was one of the few fruits of Ireland's recent prosperity that this age group was given. It gave them peace of mind and the chance to stay healthy and out of hospital. She said that to take it away again was regressive, cruel and inhumane, and that it brought a huge...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: The wealth of the country-----

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: To cut medical cards. No.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: Some €20 million in cuts.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: Four hundred thousand people are unemployed.

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: Deputy Buttimer is obviously living in a bubble.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 10. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse his proposals to increase prescription charges to €2.50 with a cap of €25. [48008/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (13 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the minimum €3 million needed to develop the donor coordinators in our hospitals is allocated in the health estimates for 2014 [48007/13]

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: I wish to refer to the case of six year old Faris Heeney, whose family is in the Visitors Gallery today. I salute their recent attempt to raise this matter. The Tánaiste will be well aware of the case. Faris was abducted and taken to Egypt four years ago, against his will. His uncle was subsequently jailed for his abduction. Over the past four years, the family have repeatedly...

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. While he says that things have moved on a bit, it is still not enough for this family and other families affected by situations in countries that are not party to The Hague Convention, including Egypt, Japan and so on. Surely the Government and this State has a responsibility to put in place protocols and systems to assist these families. The...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: I wish to continue with the same theme, as it is important and the Taoiseach has not really given an answer. Last week it was reported that seven children at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, who are ready to go home and whose parents have been trained to bring them home cannot do so because the HSE cannot provide home care packages for them. The mother of one child has...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: We have found out that the CEO of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, is getting a €30,000 top-up payment in addition to his HSE payment of €110,000. The secret top-up is taken out of receipts from the shops in the hospital. I am sure the people working in the shops only get the average minimum wage. In a statement the hospital board complained that the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: One could ask whether they were complicit or whether they knew about it. Did they vote on it and just not tell anyone about it, or were they not there?

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: These are serious questions that must be answered about the payments that have been made. We now also have senior HSE sources saying the level of cuts required next year will be approximately €1.2 billion, which is double the figure presented by the Government in the budget only a month ago. Three members of the Cabinet are responsible for the health service and various aspects of...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: The situation is a shambles. The people in charge should be sacked. Is it not time for the Taoiseach to make changes?