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Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: It should not be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: Deputy Kenny and others have set out squarely the issues under head 4. I agree with the point about the naming campaign. I, too, would like to know who came up with the idea. It was interesting that Bernadette Gorman asked whether it was a solo run by the Minister or whether the Department came up with this idea. She described it as a hate campaign because of the way it deals with people,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I would like to return to the point made by Ms Stack that the deduction rate has been 15% for a number of years. The point is that 10% is being added to it, which means that 25% could be deducted from a person's payment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I am speaking about the level of income to which a person is entitled. These are not top-up payments: they are payments on which people live. In taking 25% of a person's payment, even for nine weeks, the Department is overstepping the mark. We should not be moving in that direction.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Information (31 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to launch information campaigns advising persons of payment pending wages or the fast tracking system for persons that sign off to take up employment or training for a short period, that is, up to 12 weeks, or family income supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25973/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (31 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he was referring to persons that rely on social transfers from his Department to keep them out of poverty when he stated those that contribute nothing and want everything free. [25931/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme (31 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 62. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason his Department is encouraging recipients of social welfare payments to become self-employed through the back to work enterprise allowance scheme, in view of the amount of bogus self-employment in the construction sector and the loss to the State related to the wrongful designation of workers (details supplied); and when he plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Construction Industry (31 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 65. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated loss in employers' PRSI payments to his Department for the year ending 31 December 2015 in view of the amount of bogus self-employment within the construction sector, which has been identified in a report (details supplied), in which it has identified a loss of €83 million in tax and PRSI payments to the State; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Construction Industry (31 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 84. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the report on the intermediary type employment structures and self-employment arrangements will be released; and if this report is essentially bogus self employment in the construction industry. [25930/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (30 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 317. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of craft workers relevant to the construction industry now in receipt of social welfare payments (details supplied). [26024/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Benefits Data (30 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 318. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons receiving a jobseeker's payment under 26 years of age; and the number of persons receiving the payment in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016. [25932/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Applications (30 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will report on the delays in processing maternity benefit claims; the time it is now taking to process the postal claims and online claims; and the number of claims that are taking two weeks, a month, two months or longer, respectively. [25929/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: What happened on Tuesday night when 30 children did not have anywhere to go or a roof over their heads is a blight on a society. These families ended up in Fairview Park and Mountjoy Square. Imagine having children aged under ten years outside at night looking for a safe place. This is an absolute failure on the part of the Government. Mr. Mike Allen of Focus Ireland stated in a radio...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: That is not the point. Some 200 families have to self-accommodate every day.

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: The Deputy was in Government two years ago.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) to set up a national housing company of Ireland; and his plans to develop this type of policy for up to 700 sites owned by local authorities and other State owned land, particularly the DCC land initiative plan at St Michael's,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of persons in hotel and bed and breakfast emergency accommodation as of 20 May 2017; the number of persons that are in hotels; the number in bed and breakfast accommodation; and the locations in which these families will be housed on 1 July 2017. [24792/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Assessments (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an address (details supplied) is mapped as a flood risk area; his views on the situation whereby persons cannot get insurance for a home they are looking to buy in these circumstances; and the options available for the persons involved. [25192/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 245. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on bin collection companies introducing a pay by weight system on waste over a certain weight; and if this been agreed with him and the waste industry. [25111/17]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome the motion proposed by my colleague, Deputy Catherine Connolly. I am glad that Independents 4 Change and other Deputies are supporting it. The motion should probably have come sooner. When these matters were being debated in 2012, there was disagreement about how the €110 million should be utilised to support survivors who were subjected to abuse over the years in State...