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Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: St. Michael's Estate can be a practical scheme in the context of the cost-rental model and building public housing on public lands. It will be up to the city council and it has already discussed that there should be a pilot scheme on this site. It is an amazing proposal that the regeneration team is putting forward and I believe the Minister should take it on board. Although I know the...

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: What the regeneration team is putting forward is a proposal for 300 units, with a mixture of one, two and three-bedroom units, which would cost in the region of €56 million, and it is looking for this to come out of capital expenditure for next year. I believe this project would be a very good way of seeing how the cost-rental model works. The daft.iefigures show that rents have gone...

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to support a regeneration team (details supplied) to utilise public lands at a location for 300 social and public housing units; and if this model will be used as a pilot scheme with a view to extending it to all public lands. [19794/18]

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: On 26 April St. Michael's regeneration team in Inchicore launched "Our Community: A Better Way". I ask the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to support a regeneration team to utilise public lands at a location for 300 social and public housing units - not affordable units. Will this model be used as a pilot scheme with a view to extending it to all public lands?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Progression plans are the issue in respect of which I have received most contact from people. They say that they would not sign progression plans and their social protection payments were cut. Was there a recent High Court case in which that was found to be illegal? What is the Department's position on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I accept the point that the person did not get leave from the High Court. As far as I am aware, the Department admitted that it was illegally sanctioning people who refused to sign a contract with a private company.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: On Turas Nua and Seetec, another issue which people have specifically brought up with me is that they were being offered jobs that were not associated with what they were doing, what they were interested in or the areas they wanted to go into and that, at times, they were forced into areas such as elderly and home care, in which there is obviously a huge lack of staff as a result of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I have one last question which, again, is addressed to the two service providers. Has either organisation ever asked somebody to pay for a training course when moving onto an employment scheme which it has recommended?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Therefore, people are never asked to put money up upfront, for example, €700 for an elderly care course or something like it.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he plans to amend the reporting of homeless figures from monthly to quarterly; and if he will clarify his announcement that the homeless figures are 500 to 600 less than the official reports. [19782/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a public health centre has no funding to provide extra home care hours for a person (details supplied); and the reason it has no funding for home care hours for other families. [19778/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in each of the years since 2008 to analyse smear tests; the number of smear tests it analysed in each year; and if he will provide the same information in respect of clinical pathology laboratories and other laboratories here or overseas for the years in which they had a contract to analyse smear tests. [20165/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for their introductory contributions. I read the reports before the meeting. What I hear is that people in the disabilities sector have felt the brunt of austerity over the last number of years. I have had the privilege of meeting people like Dermot Walsh. I do not know whether the witnesses remember him. He lived in my constituency and was down knocking on the door...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for their introductory contributions. I read the reports before the meeting. What I hear is that people in the disabilities sector have felt the brunt of austerity over the last number of years. I have had the privilege of meeting people like Dermot Walsh. I do not know whether the witnesses remember him. He lived in my constituency and was down knocking on the door...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for their introductory contributions. I read the reports before the meeting. What I hear is that people in the disabilities sector have felt the brunt of austerity over the last number of years. I have had the privilege of meeting people like Dermot Walsh. I do not know whether the witnesses remember him. He lived in my constituency and was down knocking on the door...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: If in the review it is found out that this outsourcing was the potentially the cause of the cases not being properly checked, and we know that Vicky Phelan won an award of €2.5 million from a US based laboratory, will the Minister demand answers of the people of the day who made those decisions?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: These are the issues I raised this morning about outsourcing of the smear testing. We know that in 2008, a total of 300,000 Irish smear tests were sent over to the US firm Quest Diagnostics, and two years later clinical pathology laboratories based in Austin, Texas took over the National Cancer Screening Service. These are for-profit companies. There was a political furore about it at the...

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Today is 1 May, International Workers' Day. I presume the Taoiseach is wearing his red socks in recognition of it. Workers today are still struggling to get decent pay and conditions. A recent report by Think-tank for Action on Social Change, TASC, shows increasing growth in precarious employment. Precarious employment does not just condemn workers to low pay, which now affects one in...

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I wanted to make the point about mandatory open disclosure. Deputies Clare Daly and Wallace last year brought an amendment to the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 for mandatory open disclosure. It was rejected-----

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: -----and Fianna Fáil abstained.