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Other Questions: Public Services Card Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: With respect to the Minister, she is saying that the public services card, PSC, is going to become the predominant identification for accessing public services and beyond. I was talking to a young lad recently who wanted to apply for a driver's licence. He was told that he had to have a PSC. That means that there is a requirement for a PSC in that contradictory sense which the Minister has...

Other Questions: Public Services Card Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: It confuses the issue. There is huge concern that this is a sneaky way around introducing a national identification card. A similar process happened in Britain. They had a card called the entitlements card, which sounds very much like the PSC which was introduced here in 2005. The point was raised that additions have been made to that 2005 legislation 35 times, so many people do not know...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the public services card is mandatory or compulsory; and her views on whether elderly persons and other persons depending on social welfare payments should have their payments terminated for not agreeing to accept the card. [8306/18]

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: My question is a follow up to that posed by Deputy Curran. I do not know why the questions were not grouped. I met a lady last week who said she had asked for legal direction as to why she had to go through the process of getting a public services card. She had proof of identity, she was able to produce her passport and her marriage certificate and she did not get her payment. There has...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: There is a contradiction here. If a person does not provide the necessary SAFE 2 level identification - not the SAFE 1 level - then that person does not have a public services card. Is the SAFE 2 level saying that a person has to have a public services card? Will the Minister clarify if a person could use his or her passport or driver's licence? I shall give an example. The number of...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: Yes, I will. It follows on from this question.

Other Questions: Public Services Card Data (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is a legal requirement to accept a public services card if a card is needed to legally access some services; if the single customer view can be legally used for data sharing; if so, the legislation in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8338/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if instructions have been forwarded to Seetec and Turas Nua to cease terminating persons benefits with immediate effect if they decline to sign a private contract with a private company whilst they are still engaging with JobPath. [8304/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount lost to persons to date in cases in which they did not sign contracts with Seetec and Turas Nua. [8305/18]

Report on Lone Parents: Motion (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: I congratulate the committee on the report because much hard work went into it. I thank the Chairman for organising the committee to look at this area and produce a report. What really made the difference was that lone parents and Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids, SPARK, appeared before the committee and we had the report from Millar and Crosse which pulled previous information...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: Four years. That is just the process.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: Can we not get somebody else to do it? The person concerned will be in the cafe at 1 p.m., if the Tánaiste wants to speak to her.

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: Last week in response to an issue raised on Leaders' Questions about the HSE, the Taoiseach said that certainly there are no secrets in the Department of Health or the HSE and he agreed that we should have an honest debate about our health care and health funding. I disagreed with him on the first issue. There are many secrets in the health service and one of them is sitting in the Public...

Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: I also received that letter this morning at 10.38. Obviously, the hospital knew this case was going to be raised today. I do not think it is acceptable. This is an arse-covering exercise as far as I can see because the hospital had plenty of time from 29 January 2018, which was when I put in the question. The Minister for Health knew about this two weeks ago. Are we saying that patients...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation (15 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an organisation (details supplied) is excluded from the regulation process by CORU. [7822/18]

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: I will share time with Deputy Clare Daly. We will take ten minutes each. The last time I spoke on this issue I referred to an interview on the radio with Arne L. Kalleberg who is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina. He recently wrote Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies. He reported on precarious work and if-and-when contracts in five...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (13 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if the medicine loperamide hydrochloride has been removed from the medical card; and the basis on which it has been removed (details supplied) [6673/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (13 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 320. To ask the Minister for Health when Crohn's disease will be included in the long-term illness scheme. [6674/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: Senator Higgins covered many topics in her contribution. Public services cards were originally brought in in the context of old age pensioners and their access to transport. That was leading to problems. The idea was they would not have to carry something in their pocket but would instead have a card. The scope of these cards has broadened without serious discussion and debate in this...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: Deputy Catherine Connolly.