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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Business of Joint Committee (25 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: No. I agree that the Chairman can do so but I do not agree with it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: 496. To ask the Minister for Health if counselling services are provided, free of charge, as part of the public mental health service, in view of the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10. [8274/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: 497. To ask the Minister for Health when the building of a primary health care centre will commence, consisting of the health centre, the Mother McCauley centre and the Alzheimer's centre on Curlew Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12; and when the primary care unit will commence operation. [8297/15]

Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: Yesterday, the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection had a discussion on the one parent family payment and the impact on 2 July when 39,000 lone parents will find themselves moved from that payment to jobseeker's transition. On the basis of the discussion yesterday, will the Government organise as a matter or urgency a meeting with those affected and the One Family organisation...

Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: These lone parents will find themselves €50 a week down on 2 July while carers will find themselves down €80 a week. There must be a way to suspend this. We do not have Scandinavian child care facilities in place notwithstanding the promise in legislation in 2012. Will the Government review urgently the situation these lone parents face in July?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: I wish to ask specifically about one-parent families. Has there been a decrease in the number of one-parent families in the workplace? What are the figures in this regard? Has there been a decrease or an increase? In relation to activation programmes for one-parent families in the future, what does the Department envisage? We have seen figures recently to the effect that the number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: The 2006 report must be seen against a backdrop of nearly full employment or when we all thought we had full employment and that things would never change. Things have changed drastically and that must be taken into consideration. I would like the committee to seriously tease out whether we are putting a cohort of people into more deprivation than is the case currently. The SILC report...

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: They are.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (18 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon cannot access scoliosis surgery in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7353/15]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: I wish to acknowledge the tenacity of Jake's family and their commitment to their son and to the sons and daughters of other families throughout the country. The Brennans have fought to have a law introduced which will impose a mandatory speed limit of 20 km/h in housing estates and residential areas, which I support. The Minister has asked questions around the introduction of such a limit....

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: We are not the only ones asking these questions but Justice for Magdalenes is also raising these concerns. I asked the Minister last week if she had contacted that organisation to give it a full picture of what the State is putting in place, including the legislation and what she says she is considering outside it. That would have been a better approach and given the Justice for Magdalenes...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: I support the amendment. The Deputy put the case very succinctly. It specifies that those who do not have the capacity would have qualified advocates to speak on their behalf. In many areas, people with disabilities need advocates to explain their situations. It should be part of the services provided to the ladies of the Magdalen laundries. I ask the Minister to support it.

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: I am deeply disappointed by this, as are many of the ladies concerned and the Justice for Magdalenes group. When the Minister is dealing with certain aspects of the Bill and will consider other aspects outside it, it leaves a lot open to question. In 2012 I heard a Minister say legislation would not be enacted if proper child care facilities were not wrapped around one-parent families....

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: The Minister has not answered many of the questions asked. She has said she is considering providing these services outside legislation, but she has not said she will provide them for the women in question. She referred to the Health (Amendment) Act 1996, of which section 2(f) refers specifically to counselling services in respect of hepatitis C and section 2(g) to such other services as...

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: Many rural areas do not have a Garda station.

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: Compel the banks.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Investigations (12 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: 13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the investigation into the waste management industry. [5837/15]

Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: Ireland is the most expensive country in which to bring up a child and with regard to child care costs. Child care is based on a model of private delivery, which is fundamentally wrong. The fact that we depend on private child care causes all of the problems many private child care companies have, such as low pay and huge pressure on management trying to deliver important societal care. ...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: People are constantly setting out what needs to be done to combat climate change, which is happening fast and will have a huge impact on countries in the Third World and the so-called First World. We know it is a life-and-death issue for many people throughout the world. As the Minister said, it is a worldwide issue that does not know boundaries. We always have people standing up to say...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: They spent hours and hours in there. I was not there, but I saw some of it. I would hardly recognise this Bill as having being influenced by that committee debate. It is a terrible shame. The failure of the Bill to set a numeric target for future emissions reductions is a fundamental flaw because it means there is little concrete direction for the coming years. Recently, Finland, Denmark...