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Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (15 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding payments in respect of a person (details supplied). [23679/12]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (10 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns which those who rely on personal assistance services in relation to a rumoured 3.7% cut in the service being passed on by the Health Service Executive to the agencies and service providers who provide these essential services in view of the fact that cuts to these services will gravely affect...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (9 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that the Action Plan for Jobs (details supplied) which proposes to examine the bus market with a view to opening PSO routes post 2014 has the potential to not only impact on the revenue and job sustainability of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann but also increase the level of subvention required to fund the provision of...

Public Transport (9 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport his views on whether the National Transport Authority licensing regime and the issuing of licences that introduce head to head running of services on inter-urban routes will have a negative impact on Bus Éireann's commercial revenue and its attendant ability to fund loss making services. [23346/12]

Public Transport (9 May 2012)

Joan Collins: I am raising the issue owing to the concerns of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann workers who are members of the NBRU who see an increasing privatisation of public transport. The concern is the issuing of licences by the National Transport Authority to the private operators to compete with Bus Éireann on intercity routes, including Dublin to Cork etc., and the commercially viable routes upon...

Public Transport (9 May 2012)

Joan Collins: The Minister should take into consideration the impact of this on the revenue, jobs and service of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. It would lead to increased fares, increased subvention, less service and fewer jobs. That needs to be taken into consideration before any further licensing that is granted.

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Joan Collins: The Minister spoke about the last 40 years and the brilliant things that have happened for Irish and European workers. The Celtic tiger economy and boom time throughout the world was due to globalisation and deregulation of the banking system, which poured loads of credit into economies and people's pockets. Over that period of time workers' rights were driven back. Most private companies...

Written Answers — Job Protection: Job Protection (8 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding a company (details supplied) moving more than 300 jobs from Dundalk and Dublin to Northern Ireland, following on from the moving of 140 jobs last year to India and Egypt; and the contact he has had with the company in relation to said job losses. [22964/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 25 April 2012, if she will stop referring to people who have entitlements to the safety net of social welfare provision as customers as used in her reply to the question regarding childcare provision, as the relationship between state services and citizens is not one of customers and owners;...

Written Answers — Local Authority Expenditure: Local Authority Expenditure (8 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 273: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has examined Sligo County Council's 2012 budget; his views on whether it is an acceptable and balanced budget and sufficient to meet the proposed income and expenditure of the council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22739/12]

Private Members' Business. Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion (8 May 2012)

Joan Collins: The budget saw the Government's attempt to cut disability benefit. It also cut the jobseeker's benefit for those aged from 18 to 21 from €188 to €100. We now have the threat to take PA hours away from those with disability and we have had cuts in the one-parent family allowance. These are some of the meanest cuts a government has ever made. However, this must be one of the most...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 May 2012)

Joan Collins: The first time I had an opportunity to speak about survivors of clerical sexual abuse was a number of months ago, on the closing date for people to access the redress board. I opposed that for all the reasons outlined in the Dáil tonight. It must be seriously re-examined to see how the date can be extended to accommodate people who, for reasons we do not understand but which they...

Protection of Employees (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2012)

Joan Collins: This is straightforward legislation. While it will not resolve all the problems arising in the area of protection of employees, its enactment would immediately strengthen and extend legislation aimed at protecting workers who have been made redundant. The Bill is supported by a number of the largest trade unions, including Unite, SIPTU and Mandate. Speaking at a briefing on the Bill...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2012)

Joan Collins: Will the Taoiseach answer the substantive question?

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the annual allowance and expenses each city and county manager received in 2010 and 2011. [21055/12]

Written Answers — County and City Managers' Association: County and City Managers' Association (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 165: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the dates on which written submissions were received from the County and City Managers Association in the period from the 1 January 2011 to date in 2012; the main matter covered in each submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21056/12]

Written Answers — County and City Managers' Association: County and City Managers' Association (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 177: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 379 of the 13 March 2012, in which he stated that he personally did not receive any written submissions from the City and County Managers Association, if officials in his Department received written submissions from the County and City Managers Association in the period...

Written Answers — Garda Transport: Garda Transport (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the two patrol cars that were assigned to Community Gardaí in Sundrive and Crumlin Village Garda Stations, Dublin are currently in the depot for repair with no replacement cars being made available; the reason this situation has arisen and the actions he will take to remedy it...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I will be brief because much of the debate yesterday and today focused on why many of us in the Opposition are opposed to this amendment. I appeal to the Minister again to listen to what we are saying. Any person who takes out a mortgage is told repayment is a priority. One can cut one's private health insurance or cut down on going to the dentist, doctor, etc., but one must pay one's...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I will address the section on transition years in respect of the one-parent family payment. During the Minister's last intervention she made many points. The single most shameful matter with which Ireland has never dealt is the lack of a child orientation, particularly in terms of young children's education, after school and preschool services and supports. In the 1990s, the Labour Party...