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Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: On our amendment No. 32, I welcome the fact the Minister and the Department have come back to the 12 months and are not pushing the original 18 months. It is hugely welcome.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I very much welcome this development. This was a call by Mandate. It was originally for six months, the committee changed that to nine months and Mandate put forward the 12 months. I am delighted that is what will be implemented. I want to make one point about the retrospective look-back. The Minister is ensuring that the period will not begin post-enactment. The period will not be 12...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 36: In page 14, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(15) In the event of hours becoming available an employer shall be required to offer any surplus hours to existing part-time employees first.”. This is a very important amendment. It is based on the Directive 97/81/EC on part-time workers, which this country has not implemented yet....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: It is one of the key parts of the Bill. It has been an EU directive since 2004. Other countries have implemented it as part of their employment legislation. I would be inclined to put it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I will withdraw my amendment No. 41 and will support the amendment of Deputies Cullinane and Brady. We are not only trying to deal with low-paid workers. we are also trying to deal with secure hours, and that is the issue here. The difference between 25 and 34 hours is nine hours and that is quite a lot for an employer to reduce if they want to. It involves a lot of money for people who...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I wish formally to move Deputy Róisín Shortall's amendment.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage Insurance (17 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason applicants for local authority mortgage loans source their own mortgage protection insurance in view of the fact that this adds unnecessary expense to an applicants mortgage (details supplied). [21842/18]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I know that. The Minister of State said that the council wanted to see housing development on this site on a 30% social, 20% affordable and 50% private basis. This model is a win-win for developers because the vast majority of the homes will be sold for developer profit. We have a different vision. We want the St. Michael's Estate to be retained by the State in order to develop quality,...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I do not support the Fianna Fáil motion because of the points made by other Deputies. It recalls the launch of the St. Michael's Estate public housing on public land initiative last Thursday week. At that time, when pressed by Vincent Browne on whether he supports public housing on public land at St. Michael's Estate, Deputy Darragh O'Brien replied "Yes" and he also said that a Fianna...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (16 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 192. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason Dublin 12 was overlooked for the provision of a family resource centre (details supplied). [21566/18]

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Yesterday a constituent came to my office and told me she went for a smear test appointment with her GP who is offering free smear tests, which is good. When she asked where the test was going to be sent to, however, she was informed it would be sent to the US. She did not want it to be sent to the US and asked for it to be done in an Irish lab instead. She was subsequently informed that...

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Joan Collins: If I send the details to the Taoiseach, will he get the Minister for Health to check it out?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (15 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are a lot of new houses being advertised on property-for-sale websites (details supplied) with no given price just a Price on Application, POA; his views on whether developers are using this method to determine the level of interest in their properties and then in turn...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I repeat that. The Minister of State has not really answered the question. Why was it restricted to those aged four to 21 years? It seems there is discrimination here. It is a question of monitoring over a 12-month period. Surely, all patients should have been provided with the device for the purposes of the 12-month review. This does not make any sense and the Minister of State should...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Can the information on the exceptional circumstances be circulated to all of us?

Other Questions: Hare Coursing Regulation (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: It is horrendous.

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: On 18 April, up to 50 people representing the diabetes community presented a petition with 18,000 signatures demanding access for all to new life-changing flash glucose monitoring technology that affects 20,000 people with type 1 diabetes. The petition highlighted the fact that from 3 April 2018 the HSE has made FreeStyle Libre available to children and young adults with type 1 diabetes aged...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if contracts were renewed annually with a company (details supplied) from 2008; if he will provide the quality assurance certificate, that is, the screening process and laboratory performance expectation with each contract; and if he will provide the same information on the clinical pathology laboratory and other laboratories here or overseas for the years...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 178. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the number of times cervical screening programmes were reviewed since 2008; and his views on whether it is best practice to continually review performance to demonstrate an ability to reflect on current practice and improve patient care. [20302/18]

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the Rural Independent Group for moving this Private Members' motion. It was obvious from the start that Deputy Harty was the main driver behind the medical aspect of it given his role in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health. We have dysfunctional crisis-ridden health service which is simply not fit for purpose. We are an exception in Europe in that we never moved to a modern...