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Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: The jobs to which I refer are full-time jobs.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: I came in to talk about Xtra-vision.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: While there is much fanfair about job creation and the CSO figures, I raise this issue because people are facing the loss of permanent jobs that have good conditions, including holiday pay, entitlements, pension rights and everything that goes with those. This involves 530 employees in Xtra-vision, 1,000 workers in Tesco who were told that they had contracts that could be ripped up, and...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: These are good jobs.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: I am sure the bosses are quaking in their boots after hearing that reply from the Minister. He made a point about sympathy. Workers do not want tea and sympathy, they want their jobs. They want to be able to pay their mortgages. They want to be able to pay for food to be put on the table over the coming weeks. Xtra-vision gave no prior notice except to a small group of workers and it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 77. To ask the Minister for Health his views on survivors of severe acquired brain injury depending on a maintenance programme in nursing home care rather than in proper rehabilitation therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3944/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 93. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding and services for survivors of severe acquired brain injury, including those currently provided, and the number of patients affected; and if he will improve these services in line with best practice with international agreements such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [3943/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the refusal by two insurance companies to insure a house (details supplied) in Dublin 9 that they claim is a flood risk area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4411/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a payment for a medical test by a person, details supplied, who has a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (28 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government is accepting the €2 billion offer from the Irish League of Credit Unions to build social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3644/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: 100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of a pension for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10. [2915/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (26 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: 337. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the re-introduction of school screenings for scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2903/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (26 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: 348. To ask the Minister for Health why there is no BreastCheck clinic in the Dublin 12 area, given that a person in Crumlin who has to get a regular annual BreastCheck has been informed she has to attend at Tallaght Hospital or St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin 4. [2972/16]

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Statements (21 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: They have only been there for the past 18 months.

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Statements (21 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: It interesting that we are having this debate when the wealthiest people in the world are congregating in Davos to discuss the world economic situation. The recent Oxfam report, which showed a massive and increasing transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, was interesting. People have mentioned different numbers. The figures I have show that 62 people, 53 of which are men, have as...

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Statements (21 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: A total of 3.3 million people have signed up to the citizens' initiative against TTIP. This is a massive amount of people. There is a massive amount of concern among people about this deal. The attempt to negotiate this deal in secrecy behind the backs of people has failed and it is now out in the open. People are increasingly aware of its contents and are massively opposed to it. I...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: It is not rubbish.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: I support the motion, "That Dáil Éireann has no confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection" tabled by my Technical Group colleagues. I find the amendment tabled by the Government somewhat odd. All Members are aware that this debate is about the appointment of David Begg, former general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and of the...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: No. The Government often defends the indefensible but perhaps this time, even for those who are not easily embarrassed, it may be a step too far. Surely, this was an opportunity to defend the Government's record on political reform in general. Was this not an opportunity for the Government to show how it has progressed the democratic revolution proclaimed by the new Taoiseach in 2011,...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Joan Collins: It continued by stating "TASC particularly welcomes the Government’s focus on widening access to people from 'all walks of life'".