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Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome those in the Visitors Gallery. On 1 December 2016, when the Bill came before the Dáil, there was great hope among thousands of people that we were going to see change and people would have proper access to medicinal cannabis. People were crying out for it. That expectation has risen in the recent period. When Vera Twomey marched from Cork to the Dáil gates, I remember...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Or the ten-minute slots could be shared.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Are we being given ten-minute slots?

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: The question was raised earlier as to whether this is heritage legislation at all. Many aspects of the Bill are not sufficiently cognisant of what many environmental NGOs and farming community voices have said, namely that there is no need for sections 7 and 8. There is no huge cry or lobbying effort calling on the Minister to look at this area and introduce these provisions. As such, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank the officials for attending today's meeting. Mr. Lynch has said that people who are on the back to work and back to education schemes are not put on the JobPath scheme. While participants in the JobPath scheme will not be referred to community employment schemes because they are allowed to participate in just one activation scheme or service at a time, I understand that customers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Mr. Lynch stated the case officer works with the person up to the point where he or she gets a place on JobPath. However, for example, should the person feel he or she is not getting decent training or that the course is not delivering for him or her and the case officer says there is a community scheme in the offing, why can the person not change?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I understand from that point of view-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Those 3,000 people have come back into employment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Some 30,000 people have come back into employment. I forgot to put the comma in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: If the case officer can see after six or eight months that the programme is not working out for the individual, that the person is not getting what was expected to be achieved, and that a place on a community scheme is in the offing-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Business of Select Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I must leave at 10 a.m. to speak to the Heritage Bill. I will speak for ten minutes and then come back again.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Further Revised) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I do not have too many questions. We have a Bill on Committee Stage, namely, the Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016. Does the Minister support that Bill being pushed through over the next couple of months? It has been the subject of some discussion before the committee. It has been unanimously agreed that it is constitutionally sound. It is only a matter of bringing it through Committee...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Further Revised) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Will the issue of defined benefit be dealt with in the social welfare and pensions Bill?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding a person's (details supplied) long-term illness card. [47488/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: When the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government swaggered in arrogantly three years ago, in the absolute depths of austerity, to announce the introduction of water charges, people said, "No; enough is enough." It was not just about water, as the Minister is well aware, and I am sure that movement absolutely rocked the political establishment in this country in its peaceful resistance and the...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputy Thomas Broughan.

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome the Private Members' motion from Sinn Féin but it horrendous that we are in a situation where we are discussing this issue. While I welcome the "Nightmare to Let" programme, it is a terrible indictment of our society that this situation was there for it to investigate. That programme showed several scenarios. There were private landlords who were registered with the RTB, one...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Excuse me, this man is known. He was in the public arena.

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: He should be named and shamed. How dare he do that to people, and leave them in the situation they were in.

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I have no qualms at all about naming that man. This was a report done by a journalist in the Irish Independent, revealing that 40 houses and apartments are being run by a group. One house was previously the address of more than 2,000 offshore firms and another house was split into 14 bedrooms. The reports are there; we know it is happening. These landlords are not even registered. I...