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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (21 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 87. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the report from the Economic and Social Research Institute on the funding of the school completion programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36233/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (21 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 108. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the need for more quality affordable child care; his views on the need to increase funding for these community-based not-for-profit facilities or provide them with a derogation respecting the mandatory Further Education and Training Awards Council level 5 qualifications, as stands now (details supplied); and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (20 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position for persons on JobBridge and Gateway schemes, if they are involved in an accident in the workplace (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36450/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (20 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding JobBridge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36480/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding newly qualified teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35815/15]

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak about the budget. It makes me very angry, but even more than that, it makes me very sad to hear a Labour Party Minister gloat yet again about the brutal treatment of the Greek people by the European Central Bank, ECB, and the European Commission. The last thing Greece needed was an even more brutal prescription of increased austerity. Everyone knows,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rebates (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.79 of 30 September 2015, if the individual concerned, as a citizen of the European Union, may make a claim for a value added tax refund from the Revenue Commissioners, or equivalent agency, in the European Union state in which the appliance was purchased, given that the mobility appliance in question is not available for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 296. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding persons living with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35543/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18; and if the direct funding to this and other schools in the same position will be delivered. [35759/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding funding for primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35796/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding class sizes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35809/15]

Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: Last year, drug task forces were given added responsibility for taking on alcohol issues and they have really embraced that work. We met recently with representatives of the Dublin 12 drugs and alcohol task force. They are concerned that the public health (alcohol) Bill will not go through. Will the Minister give a commitment that before the Dáil is dissolved, the legislation will be...

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: It is hardly worth my while speaking for two minutes. I will take this opportunity to say that I take umbrage with some of what has been said by backbenchers on the Government side. I remind them that €30 billion was taken out of this economy and out of people's pockets. That is why we are in a position where things have turned around. After every recession we move into a boom, and...

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State and her colleagues have been in government for almost five years.

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: They are paying no tax on their profits. The Deputy cannot say that.

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: I am very pleased to participate in this evening's debate, which is timely following yesterday's release of the OECD report and next week's budget announcement. This debate is about tax justice. It is about inequality and where that inequality is, and whether that can change so that multinationals pay their fair share of tax rather than trying to hide their tax affairs under bushels...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of tax breaks, in tabular form, outlining what they are designated for; and the amount of moneys provided in these tax breaks in 2012; 2013; and 2014. [34105/15]

Social Housing Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: I welcome the debate and generally support the motion put forward by Sinn Féin. The current crisis in social housing provision is as a direct result of the this and the previous Government's policy of effective privatisation of the sector, whereby responsibility for the provision housing for those in need of social housing has been transferred to the private sector to private landlords...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: On the investment programme to fund the construction of 62,000 additional primary and post-primary school places, does the Department take into consideration that a percentage of parents will not want their children to go through mainstream religious schools? Some schools are going to have to be built specifically for parents who do not want to baptise their children. How is that worked out...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Joan Collins: Some would say he is on Mars.