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Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for his prompt action last week in regard to the pension being reinstated to Annie in Ballyfermot. I would like to draw out the points I made last week. Will the Taoiseach join with me in marking the passing of the folk singer, Pete Seeger, who wrote and recorded some of the most famous protest songs used by the civil rights movement of the 1960s? He was not just a...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: ----- to stop using their influence to lobby and coerce governments to introduce policies in their favour, to disclose the real ownership of companies and to pay decent wages, but this is like asking a wolf not to eat sheep. We are dealing with a capitalist system based on creed, profit and inequality.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: After attending that conference and hearing some of the comments and the request from Oxfam, will the Taoiseach reconsider his austerity programme and consider taxing the wealthy in this country and bringing in an effective corporation tax, which will deal with the issues of inequality and social equality?

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: The specific pledges Oxfam asked people at that conference to consider were not to dodge their taxes, not to use their economic wealth to seek political favour, which is lobbying governments to implement their policies in privatising essential services such as water, waste and other utilities, to make public all their investments and companies, to support progressive taxation on wealth and...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: After seven austerity budgets, will the Taoiseach continue with the same type of policy of not taxing wealth and not diverting that money to where it should be, namely, social structures? Does he believe that if he continues in this way, there will be social revolution, as was said by commentators on the Davos conference?

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: What is required is a speedy review and report on the implications of this fire. We need to know how the fire started and what was being stored in the plant. The EPA is the licensing authority. It knows what could have been stored in the plant. Many of these plants have been in place for many years when the regulation of waste disposal was non-existent. Any report should set out in plain...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: I woke at approximately 7 a.m. on Saturday and I could smell the fumes from the fire. The smell was similar to what one would get if plastic or rubber were burned. I went downstairs to check that there was nothing wrong because I thought the house was on fire. I went back to bed and when I woke later, I heard the news that the Oxigen plant was on fire. Smoke from the fire spread to many...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: 396. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of contributory pension payments and-or contributory pensions that have been cancelled due to pensioners not co-operating with her Department's controlled survey. [3896/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: 398. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the random controlled survey of widow's-widower's-surviving civil partner's pension contributory is mandatory and will lead to an automatic cancellation of the pension without a written explanation that her Department will stop an old age pensioner if the person does not comply-co-operate with the random controlled survey. [3917/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: 399. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the protocol in place in the lead up to an old age pensioner having their payment cancelled because they have not co-operated-responded to the random controlled survey of widow's-widower's-civil partner pension contributory; the number of personal contacts that must be made and the sequence of written contact that must be made and provide the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: 406. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the process engaged by her Department in their random control check on the payment of a pension (details supplied) in Dublin 10; if she will reinstate the contributory widow's pension with immediate effect pending this report been drawn up and a resolution to the withdrawal of their pension [3978/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: 402. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 is being denied his jobseeker's allowance [3964/14]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: Are people who commence any of the programmes we are discussing taken off the live register? In other words, are they all counted as being in employment or do different procedures apply in this regard in respect of different participants and schemes? On the fraud and control element to which the Minister referred, what are the criteria applying to recipients of jobseeker's payment in terms...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: Given the change in employment patterns or the type of work people are getting, does the Minister envisage more of a need for people to access FIS? Has the Minister factored this in?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: The Minister referred to social contracts. However, the type of work being created now is not the steady work that existed eight or ten years ago which was full-time and permanent up to retirement. Much of the work now is precarious. What is the impact of this?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: I have one question on future developments. I was watching a programme the other night which was more about England, where they are probably one step ahead of us. Generally, when England sneezes Ireland catches a cold. The general thrust in its employment regime and for people going back to work is to have an emphasis on being self-employed or that people work zero-hour contracts. Many...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: The latter question was not really answered.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for her presentation and welcome her staff. I was not sure what today's meeting was about but I gather that it is a presentation of what was stated in the budget and how measures are implemented. I wish to raise a few issues regarding pending claims for the invalidity or disability pension. We have discovered that there is not a one-size-fits-all pension. To qualify...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: Yes. Can I ask another question on pensions?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: The Minister mentioned that those over 62 can receive jobseeker's allowance, that the provision does not have to be job-activated and that it will be delivered once a year using electronic funding. Will the same system apply if the pension age is extended to 68? What will happen to the jobseeker's allowance in 2018 when a person reaches 67 years? Will the scheme be extended for a year...