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Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I have been submitting this matter for the past five years.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: She is not my constituent, she is from Galway. I have already contacted the HSE's parliamentary affairs division.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: My question is on waiting lists in hospitals. 3 o’clock Ms Aisling Corcoran, a young woman from Castlebar, County Mayo, had an infected rod removed from her back in 2013. This issue has been raised in the Dáil over a number of years. She is still waiting. She was subsequently removed from Galway to Tallaght. She was due to have an operation on 4 September.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: 310. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of consistent respite for persons at a location (details supplied) and the lack of houses available in the community. [52845/17]

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: We have had the Paradise Papers, Panama Papers and the Luxembourg Leaks. We have to call these leaked documents by their proper name: they amount to an international white-collar criminal conspiracy on an industrial scale. Let us consider the so-called legal end of the conspiracy: tax avoidance. Oxfam estimates that $100 billion per year is lost in much-needed state revenue. This...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I seek clarity from the Minister of State. Did he say this would happen at the Cabinet meeting on 18 January?

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: The Minister gave a strong indication that it would happen before Christmas and would go to Cabinet at its next meeting.

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: What about the sub-committee?

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I will not be withdrawing my amendment as I do not trust the Minister of State as far as I could throw him.

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I have put forward amendment No. 15, which is very similar to amendment No. 12 in the name of Deputy John Brady. On Committee Stage we agreed we would table a similar amendment to ensure the Minister comes back to us with that report - or a paper, as she put it - on the 2012 changes and what they mean for these women, in the main, and men. We have gone through a long process and do not...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach has stated he does not see the urgency for a referendum on the public ownership and management of our water. There is a visiting delegation from Slovenia, which last year introduced a change to its constitution to ensure its water resources remain in public ownership. This is not because of a direct threat but rather so that in future big corporations would not have an...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Everything is moving very quickly and I wonder where the rest of the committee is. In respect of the payments that are coming in March-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I was going to speak on the paragraph.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: No, section 13, which we were on.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I want to speak on this to try to slow down the process a little bit. When does the Minister think she will revert back to payments on 1 January? Will it be 2019 or 2020? Will the pattern of the future be that payments will be made a quarter of the way through the year? From when it first started in 2015, people have fallen behind by three months. When will that be recouped?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 30:In page 13, after line 38, to insert the following new section:"Report on the pension bands and rates 17.The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Dáil a full report regarding the impact of "the 2012 Pension anomaly" on recipients and re-instating the pre 2012 bands and rates to all those affected by the "anomaly"...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: The Minister has said that there is no doubt that the Cabinet sub-committee will accept the report. As we do not know what is in the report, we do not know what the sub-committee is accepting. What if the Cabinet sub-committee does not accept the report? This is a danger. It is not 100% definite. The Minister is not stating she knows the paper or the resolution will be accepted. I do not...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: It is a resolution.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: When is it?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I support the amendment. When a loved one dies, the bereaved are all over the place emotionally. They should not be forced to go to a community welfare officer and beg for support or else go to a loan shark. It should be automatic for them to access that money as the bereavement grant did in the past. The grieving process is hard enough without having the problem of getting money to bury...