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Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: I am sure the Tánaiste, as leader of the Labour Party, would have nothing to do with such cynicism, using people's money to buy an election.

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: These are the Fianna Fáil politics of old, which the Government promised to banish. We know how these promises worked out in practice. Will the Tánaiste commit to prioritising the reversal of cuts in social services and welfare payments before any consideration of tax cuts is made by the Government? That is essential following on from the MABS report. People should not have to...

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: While that is very good, I repeat that the Government is using the argument of tax cuts and putting it on the agenda as a ploy to get elected in the next general election.

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: Will the Tánaiste give a clear declaration that she will prioritise reversing the cuts in social welfare and public services? We want to hear it from the Tánaiste. I want to hear the Government identify areas where cuts will be reversed and make a commitment not to introduce tax cuts as a ploy to try to get re-elected in 2016.

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: The 2011 programme for Government promised an extension of BreastCheck to those aged between 65 and 69 years. As part of the Government's reform plans for the health service it was promised to roll it out at the beginning of 2014 but this has not happened. It was also part of Fine Gael's commitments before the election in 2011. The Irish Cancer Society has been asking the Government to...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: A promise was made by the Minister's party before the 2011 election, and it was part of the programme for Government, that the age group would be included in BreastCheck free screenings. Why has this not been done and why can the Minister not tell the Irish Cancer Society, the women in this age group and their families that he will seriously commit to the promise in the upcoming budget and...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: It was supposed to be 2014.

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: What about the Government's views and the Department's views?

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: I support the motion, which continues the debate we have held over recent months. On 6 May, the Technical Group used Private Members' business to debate the issue of housing and homelessness because we believed the Government was not serious in its approach or in recognising the crisis that people in our constituencies are facing. The coalition Government has belatedly come to accept the...

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (24 Sep 2014)

Joan Collins: I have no major difficulty with the Bill. It is mainly a technical Bill to pull organisations together and merging them into one. I have a few questions. Will there be a cap on the new CEO's wages? The point was made here, quite correctly, that new jobs would be lost and wages would be at the level they should be. I hope there will be no JobBridge jobs in this area and that these will be...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach is right that there are a lot of issues going on that should be discussed in the Dáil. However, I think what people have seen over the last few days has created more cynicism towards this Government and so-called democracy in this country. I want to raise two things that happened yesterday, one in my own constituency, where a landlord-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: It is one issue but two incidents. Yesterday, in my constituency, a landlord attempted to carry out an illegal eviction. This involved a couple with a one-year-old child. While the family were out, the landlord came into the flat, cut off the electricity, took off the front door and changed the locks on the main door of the building. The couple made contact with my constituency office and...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: Yes, we do not need meters to have good water. The question I am asking is very simple. The gardaí refused to act to stop an illegal eviction by a landlord on the basis it was a civil matter. Yet, while other people stand peacefully over a water shore, they are told it is an illegal protest, and section 12 of the Irish Water Act is quoted, which states that Irish Water and its...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: They are outside people's houses.

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: I welcome the fact Deputy Thomas Pringle has brought this Private Members' motion to the Chamber. It should be made clear that Deputy Pringle brought this into the legislative process a year ago but did not have the opportunity to put it on the floor of the House until this week, so it is not just an issue of responding to the circumstances and the protests of asylum seekers who have come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for their reports and congratulate them on the campaign in defence of the travel pass, which was very effective. We are getting conflicting reports; on one hand we hear that austerity may be over and that there will be tax cuts and then, on the other, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and others say that we must continue with austerity, mentioning the troika, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (7 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 398. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the removal of an independent midwife's (details supplied) indemnity cover without due process [38291/14]

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: Like many people I welcome the fact we are discussing the Workplace Relations Bill and the Workplace Relations Commission. We should include in our discussion the context of what is happening in communities. According to the 2014 OECD employment outlook report, Ireland has the second highest percentage of low paid jobs after the US. Portugal has the lowest percentage. Yesterday was world...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Bond Issues (8 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of bonds, from the €25 billion in bonds created in February 2013 for the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and of the €3 billion in bonds created in 2012 to fund the payment of the IBRC promissory note redemption, that have been sold by the Central Bank of Ireland in 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Bond Issues (8 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance the position of the European Central Bank on the €25 billion in bonds created in February 2013 for the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and of the €3 billion in bonds created in 2012 to fund the payment of the IBRC promissory note redemption; if he or his Department has had recent discussions with the ECB regarding...