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Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: I tabled this question to continue the debate on a living, rather than a minimum, wage. Many people support the concept of a living wage. Family income supplement, FIS, was mentioned and some 40,000 working families are in receipt of it. The minimum wage is not a living wage; it is the bare minimum the State deems a person should earn per hour. The concept of €11.45 per hour has...

Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: I welcome that sort of forum and participating in it. It is a key debate. In Britain the living wage, by law, is £7.56 an hour, but in the city of London there is a voluntary wage of £10.55, a concept which most employers have bought into on the basis that it is good practice, which is good to see. A wage of €11.45 per hour, considering sterling-euro exchange rates, is not...

Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: The concept of a living wage has to reflect the cost of everything else. The cost of child care in Ireland is among the highest in Europe due to the fact that it is not subsided in any way by the State. Transport costs and the fact child benefit is paid must also be taken into account. All of these issues must be weighed when working out what the national living wage should be. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: When does the Minister of State think that legislation will be brought through and the report will be finished and presented to us in the Dáil? The workers have gone on strike for a day already in Dunnes Stores because of their pay and conditions. There will also be a demonstration on 6 June. Dunnes Stores has agreed to increase wages by 3% and bring in four-week rotas, which is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: I welcome collective bargaining legislation and trade union recognition. That has been long awaited by workers across the State. We know the problems would be access to workers in their workplace. Those issues must be addressed because they are situations workers are facing at the moment. The State is subsidising big, profitable companies with a great deal of money through family income...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce legislation to outlaw zero hours and minimum hour contracts. [18469/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: The recent strike at Dunnes Stores has highlighted the problem of low-hours contracts and precarious employment. Would the Minister be prepared to take action to stop this growing culture of extreme exploitation? When is the legislation from the Low Pay Commission going to be brought into the Dáil? We know that the State is now subsidising 40,000 working families with the family...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of the investigation into the need for regulation in the waste management industry. [18466/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: This question relates to the progress of the investigation and the need for regulation across the board in the waste management industry, including maintenance of vehicles, the National Employment Rights Authority, NERA, and the Labour Court.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: Is it possible that all the issues the Minister raised could be debated in an Oireachtas committee? This question was tabled on foot of the Greyhound dispute last year when the workers were locked out in an attempt to reduce their wages. The company did reduce their wages and some people got their jobs back. What report was received back from the Labour Court after the Minister submitted...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waste Management Regulations (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: Is the Minister recommending that some type of wage rate be set in the waste industry? I note from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, that although waste management facilities only account for 15% of licences, they account for over 50% of the EPA investigations. That is a lot of investigations by the EPA for a small cohort of businesses. Did anything particular in that respect come...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: 23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm that the July 2015 deadline for the introduction of robust collective bargaining legislation is still on track; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18359/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Construction Contracts (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the appointment of the chairman for the panel of adjudicators will go before the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation; when the Construction Contracts Act 2013 will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18358/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)

Joan Collins: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of 62,000 workers registered in the construction industry as self-employed, that is more than 50% of the total workforce, his views that this represents a significant level of bogus self-employment. [18369/15]

Leaders' Questions (12 May 2015)

Joan Collins: What does this have to do with variable rate mortgage holders?

Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Joan Collins: It was indicated today that water charges will be included in the new legislation on the non-payment of general debts. When will this legislation come before the House? Do we need separate legislation to look into the issue of tenants who refuse to pay water charges?

Order of Business (6 May 2015)

Joan Collins: When?

Other Questions: Gender Recognition (6 May 2015)

Joan Collins: Has the Minister of State or Department engaged with children aged under 16 years who have declared themselves to be transgender or with intersex children to get their feedback? When does the Minister of State think Committee Stage of the Bill will be dealt with?

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (6 May 2015)

Joan Collins: We have got through just eight questions and mine has just been dumped into the last few minutes because the Minister is not here. We should be getting through at least 12 or 14 questions in the time provided. Members have been sitting waiting in the Chamber.

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (6 May 2015)

Joan Collins: People have put a lot of time and effort into these questions.