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Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: The consultation process did not involve the people in the community partnerships who will be affected or the people working in the National Traveller Partnership but at a different level. The Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, made no attempt to listen to the workers' concerns about their jobs and futures and the future of the local development companies. The Taoiseach did not answer the...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: It is privatisation of community centres.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Traveller Community (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will meet the National Traveller Partnership as soon as possible (details supplied). [29775/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 817. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff currently employed by the rural transport programme who will be made redundant due to the restructuring of the programme into the 18 transport co-ordination units; and the redundancy package that is being offered. [29497/14]

Public Health (Standard Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: For years, the tobacco industry tried to hide the fact but all the medical evidence shows that smoking kills. While the odd smoker may be lucky enough to reach the age of 80 or 90 years, smokers generally do not live to old age. The tobacco industry is one of the most invidious industries in the world. It has been able to buy off governments, organisations and politicians across the globe...

Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: I received information that a second worker was run over by a car as it was leaving the Greyhound recycling site in Crag Avenue last night in a hit and run incident.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. On Monday, NERA said it could take up some of the issues but not all of them. That is why I raise the need for an overall review of the waste industry. It is highly unregulated. It is almost a snake pit from the point of view of how workers are treated. Some 70 workers were told on 17 June that unless they signed a contract reducing their wages by 30%, they should...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: That is a joke.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise an issue that was raised last week by my colleague, Deputy Clare Daly, and by me the week before that in the course of the debate on the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014. It relates to the industrial dispute at the Greyhound facility in Clondalkin. Following the decision by the High Court on Tuesday, there is now an official lock-out of 70 workers at the depot....

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: This issue must be examined in a thorough and joined-up way. The EPA, RSA, HSA, Garda, local authorities and unions are all separate entities. Will the Minister give serious consideration to setting up a task force, perhaps comprising members of the environment committee and with an independent chair, to examine the whole industry? There are Sopranos-style operations going on here.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach gave a sort of ambiguous reply when Deputy Catherine Murphy raised the climate change Bill yesterday. He said that the Bill is being drafted, but he did not give any indication of exactly when the Bill will be published or enacted. What kind of timespan are we talking about? There is a general feeling that if this legislation is not moved on very quickly, it will not be put...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Magdalen laundries and Bethany homes including Ovoca House, Westbank Orphanage and the Church of Ireland Magdalen home, Leeson Street will be included in the terms of reference of the statutory inquiry into mother and babies homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27897/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Maintenance (25 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has received an application from Sligo County Council for funding for vessel access and harbour/pier repairs at Rosses Point, County Sligo, under his Department’s marine leisure and coastal infrastructure development programme; when a decision is expected to be made on the application; and if he will make a...

Cooke Report: Statements (19 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: It is no great surprise that the Cooke report failed to find hard evidence for the bugging of GSOC. It is in the nature of modern electronic surveillance not to leave evidence. The anomaly of the ring-back of the Polycom unit remains unexplained. We are as informed now as we were prior to the report's publication. When the issue arose in February, the reaction of the then Minister for...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: I have seen the experience of RAS from a council perspective since approximately 2006, when the scheme was introduced. Amazingly, in Dublin the private sector increased from 19% in 2006 to 32% by 2011. I have always felt that RAS simply lined landlords pockets again after the 2008 crash and was not able to solve the housing crisis in the city at the time. The scheme was introduced to allow...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State said in a statement:This commitment in the Programme for Government followed on-going concerns about the evolvement of rent supplement into a long-term housing support; which it was never designed to be. [Which it was never designed to be, but it was lining the pockets of the landlords for the past ten to 15 years.] It was also one of the key reforms announced in...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: This legislation, which is the Government's main idea, is not going to work. 2 o’clock Will the Minister of State reconsider this proposal and call a meeting of all the Deputies who have spoken here? It is a shame that none of the Government Deputies have come into the House to debate this issue because they will have to deal with it in their constituencies. They will not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (19 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are in place for parents of multiple birth children in respect of the transition from second to third level education (details supplied). [26375/14]

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: I would like to share time with Deputies Thomas Pringle and Catherine Murphy.

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: The promised inquiry into the issues regarding the Garda Síochána that have been raised over the last year will be the third such inquiry in ten years. Questions need to be asked about the Morris and Smithwick inquiries, which investigated very serious allegations and identified very serious problems. Did anything change following those inquiries? The Morris tribunal found...