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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: I support Deputy O'Dea in opposing the section and for the reasons he outlined Those reasons were also highlighted by the Free Legal Advice Centres, which has been quite meticulous in terms of explaining why the section in the principal Act should be repealed. It was wrong to introduce a provision in 2012 whereby a deduction of 15% may be taken from a person's social welfare payment without...

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: I would like to ask a question about the Government's housing and homelessness strategy. I was horrified to find out an hour ago that a rough sleeper who intends to sleep on the streets of Dublin tonight was told today by Focus Ireland that it has no dry, fresh sleeping bags to give them. If we are talking about a housing strategy, we should be aware that it is horrendous that someone...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (31 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will initiate a new investigation and-or review into hare coursing, with a view to removing its exemption from prohibition under the Animal Health and Welfare Acts, and to bring Ireland into line with neighbouring jurisdictions, where it has criminal status (details supplied). [10192/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (31 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 643. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of senior executive engineers and analogous, including acting-up and temporary, employed in each level 5 local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12927/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (31 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: 649. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of local authority staff who are 100% externally funded by his Department, in each regeneration project in the State; the Departmental funding provided to cover the payment of staff; the total Departmental funding to be provided, in respect of each such project in 2015;...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, to delete lines 20 to 25, and in page 6, to delete lines 1 to 30.I resubmitted this amendment, which we also discussed on Committee Stage. It relates to the definition of "medical assessor" and consequential amendments. We had a lengthy debate on this on Committee Stage and I propose the deletion of these lines.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I also tabled an amendment to this section on the basis that the Minister of State would not accept the deletion of the section itself. My amendment was to add that agency staff were:only to be engaged for short term, specific work loads or backlogs and only after all attempts to fill permanent positions to be agreed between workers representatives and the Department.I do not understand why...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 5:In page 6, line 9, after “Minister” to insert the following:"only to be engaged for short term, specific work loads or backlogs and only after all attempts to fill permanent positions to be agreed between workers representatives and the Department".

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: We are dealing with this section again. We all feel we are expressing the negativity of this section when we say that the inclusion of the word "not" is negative law-making. This has quite clearly been outlined by the Free Legal Advice Centres, which have major concerns about this section. We are questioning why the Department and the Minister of State want to change the current...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I must concur with Deputy Boyd Barrett. Nothing the Minister of State has said has convinced me and many other people that there is a need for this. FLAC has come out and said that section 3 should be deleted as it does not present as having a purpose other than to make it more difficult for carers to access income supports since it does not alter the actual conditions for eligibility other...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I too heard about this issue late last Thursday evening. Many people panicked, as could be expected, and I tabled the Topical Issue matter early yesterday evening. I thank the Minister of State for the letter he sent and for responding quickly. When I asked a subsequent question, he responded to me quickly again. I rang the CDETB earlier when I realised this matter would be taken in the...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

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Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I am delighted with the reply and we can confidently say that they will be open, because there may just have been a lack of understanding about how to meet the criteria Pobal was looking for. If all sides sit down, that will be easily sorted. I also want to raise the question of funding. Is there a possibility that the funding could be better streamlined, that is, that the grant could...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: This Bill is not fit for purpose. However, I do not propose to vote against it. This Bill follows on from the Social Welfare Act 2012 Act, which proposed amendments to the one-parent family payment. During debate on that legislation, the Minister gave a commitment that these cuts would not be proceeded with in 2015 if decent, affordable and accessible child care had not been put in place....

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, Tom Fleming, Shane Ross and Catherine Murphy, with two minutes each.

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I support the motion, another motion on the banks. It is like déjà vuor Groundhog Day. We come back here every couple of months to debate issues dealing with the banks which have been heftily bailed out by the people. They continue to implement policies that are counterproductive for the ordinary person. The motion correctly calls on them to reduce their tracker interest rates...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to her statements that the person selling the sexual service will not be subject to an offence under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2014, her plans to repeal sections 7, 8 and 11 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 as applied to persons selling sexual services. [13543/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Scheme to Support National Organisations (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the review by Pobal and the review by his Department into the funding of the neurological charities under the scheme to support national organisations. [13442/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 177. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the funding to the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13466/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the redundancies in January 2015 made by the Education and Training Board of four local training initiative co-ordinators and assistant co-ordinators who worked in the Saint John Bosco Youth Centre in Drimnagh in Dublin 12, when they will receive their enhanced redundancy payments. [13891/15]