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Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: I move:“That Dáil Éireann: calls on the Government: — to immediately lobby the European Central Bank for a one-off exemption from the rules of monetary financing, to allow the Central Bank of Ireland to destroy the €25 billion in sovereign bonds issued in February of this year, in lieu of the remaining promissory notes, plus the €3.06 billion bond also...

Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: As Deputies will be aware, there was an extremely important judgment this morning in the High Court. This judgment was made in regard to the case in which I, as an elected Member of Dáil Éireann, challenged the constitutionality of the promissory note arrangement made by the late former Minister for Finance in December 2010. The basis of the challenge was that some €30...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (26 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 624. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the present CEO or past CEOs of Crumlin children's hospital first received the top-up package; if the board makes the decision; if the decision is minuted and voted on; if he will provide the minute of the vote. [50516/13]

Bond Repayments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: I thought Deputy Spring was a social democrat.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services Provision (27 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the Scandinavian style child care that has been implemented since the announcement of Budget 2013 and future plans; the number of extra children that have child care access compared to 2011/12 in pre school and day child care. [51045/13]

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 16. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the budget decision to cut jobseeker's allowance for those under 26 years of age. [50843/13]

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: Regardless of what the Minister says in trying to defend her position, the reduction in core payment from €188 to €144 in respect of persons under 26 years age is a cut. As has been already stated, there are 30 applicants for every job. Nobody wants to remain on the dole or to have to live on €188 per week. It is a poverty income. People do want jobs. The Minister...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: A very important judgment was given in the High Court this week relating to the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008. The then Labour Party spokesperson on finance, Deputy Joan Burton, said in a debate on that Act that: "One of the difficulties with giving the Minister a blank cheque is that it can invoke what economists and philosophers like to call the law of unintended...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: That was a speech the Tánaiste should have given last night in the debate rather than sending in his junior Ministers to respond to the Technical Group's Private Members' motion. Again, in the role of Labour finance spokesperson in 2010 on the question of extending the timescale of the powers given under the Act, then Deputy Joan Burton, in briefing the Labour Party parliamentary party...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: Is he suggesting this was not a blank cheque? They said it themselves in 2008.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: It is Frankfurt's way then, is it?

Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: Will the Tánaiste indicate when the water services Bill will be brought to the Dáil to be debated?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the increase in rents, particularly in the Dublin area, which is pushing beyond the reach of those in receipt of rent supplement from social welfare access to private rented accommodation. [50841/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 13. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider opening a new community welfare office in Crumlin. [50844/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Budget 2013 Impact (28 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: 77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has received the equality budgeting check that was promised when she introduced the budget proposals; if she will present them; if she has received same, and if not, when she expects to receive same. [51120/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Collection (3 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible for the remaining persons still on deserted wife's benefit or allowance to be considered eligible to pay the local property tax like other recipients of long-term social welfare payments from said payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51442/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: A lot of issues have been already covered. Perhaps the witnesses would elaborate further on the Protestant ethos issue. I have listened carefully to what everybody had to say. There are little nuances with which people have a problem and are seeking clarification on from the Department of Education and Skills. There are also fundamental issues in regard to the Traveller and migrant...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: I refer to a question which Deputy Séamus Healy has asked twice in the last two weeks, once of the Taoiseach and once of the Tánaiste. On neither occasion has he received a reply which dealt with the question he raised. Before the Minister replies, the 30,000 families affected by this and I are well aware that the Government has established the Insolvency Service of Ireland, ISI,...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: What is it?

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: In my question I appealed to the Minister not to list off these points by rote, and that is exactly what he has done. He has not said what the Government will do to solve the problems of the 30,000 families who cannot access insolvency services. I thought it might be third time lucky today and I might have got an answer from the Government. I have an example of a family whose income is...