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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (25 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 990. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the current staffing levels for occupational therapists in the Old County Road Health Clinic, Crumlin, Dublin 12 (details supplied). [12908/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (25 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 1086. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 536 of 22 October 2013, if the Health Service Executive will confirm that the money allocated to Cheeverstown follows the patient; and if the HSE confirm the allocation to a person (details supplied) for their care. [13504/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (25 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 1136. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13767/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (13 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 7. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown of the 61,000 jobs the Government says were created in 2013; the categories of the economy in which they were created; the number that are zero hour contracts, less than 19.5 hours per week; and the number that are full-time. [12172/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (13 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he welcomes the fact that over 40,000 workers in the retail sector have sought and won, through their union Mandate, over €15 million in wage increases over the past 18 months; and if he supports legislation for statutory trade union recognition and collective bargaining. [12224/14]

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, Boyd Barrett, Wallace and Clare Daly. I fully support the sentiments in the motion put forward by Sinn Féin. In 2008 Dublin City Council had 7,500 employees. It now has 5,000. By September next, it is due to have only 4,800 employees. This means that more than one third of the staff of the council will have left during a six-year...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: Five minutes is a rather short time to make an intervention on-----

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: If you had not interrupted me I could have said more.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: This crisis has been brewing for some time. There was a housing crisis throughout the years of the property boom, a crisis of affordable housing. Young people and young couples seeking to start a family were priced out of the housing market by the greed of developers and bankers. Hand-in-hand we had policies coming through local authorities referring to pathways to a home and that every...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: First, a decision was taken to stop building social housing by local authorities.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: There was a conscious strategy to develop a private rented sector. Section 23 tax breaks were used to encourage a private landlord sector. Local authorities were responsible by accepting levies instead of social housing units from developers and they attempted to maximise funding through levies throughout the country. Absurd planning decisions resulted in a mass of ghost estates which are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 85. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will correct the anomalies whereby a person born on 31 December 1947 who paid an average of 21 PRSI contributions per year receives an old age pension of €225 per week but a person born on 1 of January 1948 who paid an average of 29 PRSI contributions per year receives an old age pension of €196 per week. [12232/14]

Topical Issues Debate: Job Protection (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: It seems that a profitable company, with the backing of its directors, went to NAMA to discuss a management buy-out. It appears that as a result of difficulties experienced after that time, it was not possible for the company to exercise that buy-out. There is something wrong with that process, to my mind. Why would a profitable company not be able to complete such a buy-out? I want...

Topical Issues Debate: Job Protection (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I received an e-mail last week from some of the Elverys Sports workers, as I assume did other Members. I was aware of reports in recent weeks that the company was going into examinership, with the likely outcome being a management buy-out. The general view among workers is that such an outcome would be best for them in terms of contracts, wages and conditions. In that context, it is...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: Whoever wrote the Tánaiste's reply seems to have lost the plot halfway through. The fact of the matter is that Apple Sales International's returns in Australia show that it was able to cut its tax bill by availing of lower rates of tax on income, which was a reference to the 12.5% tax on corporate profits in Ireland. Something does not add up here. The Tánaiste cannot on the one...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: Yes, Apple representatives should come before the finance committee.

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: A Cheann Comhairle, I have been accused of not having my tax affairs in order.

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: There is nothing wrong with our tax affairs. I refute that remark and the Deputy should not be able to say it across the floor of the Dáil.

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I have a number of issues I would like to raise with the Tánaiste but I will concentrate on media reports last week about returns by Apple Sales International which is the Irish subsidiary of Apple based in Cork. While Apple Sales International is an unlimited company in Ireland and is not obliged to make annual returns to the Companies Office, it is obliged to make returns in...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: One hundred and sixty six elected representatives have spent a week on the so-called review of the programme for Government. To my mind, it is a waste of time and a pre-election stunt by the Government to put its wares out in the run-up to local and European elections on 23 May. It reminds me of a pantomime with one side shouting, “Oh yes we did” while the other shouts,...