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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in cases where workers lost their job due to a business closure and have been awarded a claim for unpaid wages, holiday pay and payment in lieu of notice, the mechanism that exists to allow them to claim from the social insurance fund where there is no receiver or liquidator appointed to the now closed business. [39809/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (21 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 109. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that in future figures released by her Department that a distinction be made between fraud figures and error figures relating to payments made; her views that the general perception of the level of fraud amongst the population is tainted because of the poor reporting of the level of fraud caused by associating control figures,...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (21 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 621. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for her decision to issue a licence to coursing clubs for hare coursing. [40051/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Construction Contracts (16 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 37. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to reintroduce direct labour on building sites, particularly on Government funded projects and then roll out to private building contracts. [39262/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that both secondary school unions the TUI and ASTI are opposed to the introduction of the new junior certificate and that the joint managerial body has called on her to drop school based assessment for the terminal exam for a five-year period; if she will engage with the unions and the JMB, Joint Managerial Body, and issue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pathways to Work: Department of Social Protection (15 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: We have heard that a further 60 Intreo offices are being rolled out in the next couple of months. Can we get a list of those offices and when they will be opening? Can staffing levels and such information also be included? We are waiting for those offices to be opened in several areas where offices were closed because it is quite difficult for people to access services. I am not in favour...

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: Is it not the case that any limited gain from changes in direct taxation for those on low to moderate incomes will be wiped out by the water tax in January? Changes in the budget are extremely modest. A single worker earning €15,000 will see a weekly €2 rise in take-home pay, which is barely the price of a cup of coffee. A married couple earning €15,000 with one income...

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: Some families will receive bills of up to €500. If they get tax relief of €100, they will be faced with a new austerity tax of €400. An old-age pensioner living alone faces a new austerity tax of €70 or €80 if he or she receives €100 from the Government. We are subsidising a private limited company set up by the Government to raise €500...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: Most people will be relieved that none of the savage austerity cuts of the past seven budgets is in this budget. However, nobody should be under any illusion that austerity has ended. The Government is making a big deal of the fact that a €1.2 billion increase in services and tax cuts is contained in the budget. More than €30 billion has been taken out of the economy,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 20. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the new community welfare office will be in place to service the Crumlin-Drimnagh-Walkinstown area (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and the location of same. [38990/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the staffing levels that will be in place if and when a new community welfare office opens in Crumlin, Dublin 12 (details supplied). [39002/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Chemical Markers (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance the tonnage of toxic chemical marker that has been added to the fuel supply which when burned can be released into the environment. [39020/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hip replacement operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [39193/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding resources to set up a direct helpline to assist women accessing a midwife (details supplied). [39200/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 371. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that driver fatigue is the cause of one in five road accidents here; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Dublin Bus currently have scheduled driving rotas whereby bus drivers on route number 7 from Donnybrook and on route number 27 from Ringsend are driving for over five hours, and in some cases for over six...

Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: The Construction Contracts Act 2013 was signed into law on 29 July 2013 but still awaits enactment. Can the Tánaiste provide a date on which it will commence?

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: They have been left with the debt of bankers and bondholders.

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: One resident was taken to hospital yesterday with an ankle injury. Twenty-six gardaí were taken from stations across Dublin to get involved in what was happening in Clare Hall. The focus has switched today to St. Donagh's Road in Donaghmede, where over 100 residents have come out to protest. There is a large Garda presence and two arrests have been made. Is this not a strange use of...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: The Tánaiste did not answer my question.

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: It has been a habit of those on the Government benches. The Tánaiste repeated what has been said on a number of occasions in the Dáil this week. I put it to her that people are coming out of their houses in extraordinary numbers. I have never seen a spontaneous reaction like it in my life. Irish Water came into Crumlin each morning for 15 days. The residents came out of their...