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Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: By cutting social welfare?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 15. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that child benefit is retained at its current level; that adult social welfare rates are retained at current levels; that family income supplement is maintained in its current form; if she will seek a raise in the rates for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance, and maintain the budget for the school meals...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (17 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection from January 2014 workers retiring will not be able to avail of their State pensions until they are 66 years of age, the way persons retiring next year at 65 years of age will engage with social welfare; if she has made provision for these retirees; if they receive the transition payment to 67 years of age; if they have to sign on for jobseekers,...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: We need to create the jobs for them.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: He asked the Taoiseach to reverse the cuts.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Road Improvement Schemes (16 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 81. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will arrange for the hardcore re-surfacing of the access road, walkers path from the old monastic carpark at Glendalough up to the old mines at the Wicklow Gap (details supplied). [43709/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: When I first came into this Chamber, I welcomed the coalition of cuts. Unfortunately for the people, whether working men or women, young people, a person who has lost a job or a young person hoping to get a job in the future, this budget does nothing to address the key problems facing them. The economy remains stagnant; we still face a mortgage crisis and the jobs crisis has not got away....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Investment Fund Capital (15 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether at least €3 billion from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, now formally established with €6.3 billion funding from the National Treasury Management Agency, be fast tracked into a jobs stimulus programme for 2014 and 2015. [42823/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (10 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 91. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation while welcoming the small increase in total employment in the year to June 2013, if he is concerned that the numbers in work for the 25-34 and 20-24 age groups actually declined in the same period. [42823/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (8 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether children with Down syndrome have a low incidence disability and should be included on his Department's list of low incidence disabilities. [38602/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: Taking maternity leave is not a choice but a need. It is about preparing for the birth and, afterwards, adjusting to having a new child. The Minister expected to make €14 million a year by taxing maternity. It is a bad choice and there were no calls for such a tax. It is a cut for a woman who had a child three years ago and will have another this year. The Minister might as well...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the tax on maternity benefit is a retrospective tax; and if he will review this tax in Budget 2014. [41737/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister, but his reply is the standard one we have heard since the introduction of this tax on maternity benefit. It is a retrospective tax in that the Minister is taking money from people's pockets when they most need it. If those women still had that money, they would be able to spend it in the economy, buying what they need for their child, but the Minister has just taken it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: The women were pregnant. They had to leave work.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Staff Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: Exactly. Why would the Minister want to exclude a union representing the workers at the coalface? From talking to workers on the ground, I know managers do not have a hand-to-hand approach in the communities. They see them once or twice a year when they call in to see how operations are working. The union representation, SIPTU, should not be locked out of these negotiations. It is not...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Staff Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: Following from Deputy Byrne's comments, the alignment process is a different scenario, and we are not really here to debate the merits or otherwise of that. We are demanding that the workers' voices be heard because they have continuously tried to contact the Minister: union members met representatives of the Department on 24 September to try to get meaningful negotiations rather than just...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Staff Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: We know the Minister is not legally obliged to speak to workers but he should do so. There are 50 local development companies and there is much work in the area. As a broad church of Deputies, we appeal to the Minister, and I know many of the Minister's party members have signed the petition for the Minister to respect the workers.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (3 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 242. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for prescription charges (details supplied). [41699/13]

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: We are calling for fairness. Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan was correct. Where was the fairness when unsecured bondholders were paid? Did the Government ask the people if we should pay them off? No, they were paid off. Ordinary people should be assisted out of their situation, that dark tunnel out of which they cannot see. That is what this Bill is about. It is robust, proven legislation...

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: I thank the Technical Group and Opposition Members who support this Bill and put forward constructive ideas. The key and crucial area of this legislation is the family home. Every time the Minster for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, claims the personal insolvency legislation is a solution, it becomes more obvious it is not. The Governor of the Central Bank made the point that 62% of...