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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I will not repeat the points already made about the cuts facing us next week being brought into immediate effect. I will refer to some points the Minister raised. We are discussing child care facilities for couples who are married, cohabiting, lone parents and their children - it is all encompassing. As a society we must admit we have not delivered for anybody on child care. Child care is...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I will try to deal with three areas of the Bill on foot of the arguments made by the Minister. Nobody would attempt to say lone parents do not want to work because they do. If the Minister were introducing her measure when jobs were plentiful, there might be some basis to her argument that it would be easy to get back into the workplace. However, we are in a recession. The legislation...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Yes, fair basis.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: That is because of high unemployment rates.

Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the conditions that would constitute enough childcare support and after school care in order that one parent payments would be cut at the age of seven in the future. [20951/12]

Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Anybody sitting in the Visitors Gallery would not know the question I asked was if the Minister for Social Protection would outline the conditions that would constitute enough child care support and after school care so that one parent payments would be cut at the age of seven in the future. This question has also been asked by groups such as Barnardos. Will the Minister provide evidence of...

Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: The Minister referenced them.

Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: The Minister has still not answered the question, which I asked so that we might debate the matter during our discussion on the amendments to the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012. As the Minister knows, there are not enough affordable child care facilities. Lone parents want to work, but seven years of age is too young to keep their children at home and there are not enough child care...

Child Care Services (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Family incomes are being cut.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I am trying to tease out this point. The only time I came across mortgage interest supplement was when people had had an accident at work and were sick in the long term. They needed the short-term mortgage interest supplement to get over the hump. Now, it has become a long-term issue because of people losing jobs left, right and centre. They need mortgage interest supplement in order to...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: People only apply for mortgage interest supplement if they are in a dire situation and have lost their jobs. They are dealing with the ramifications for their families of reduction in income, including having to approach the bank and go through the MARPS process. We have nothing in place to assist people in dealing with these big institutions although there is talk of an insolvency Bill....

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (24 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 526: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that the superintendent or caretaker of Sligo City Hall, retired in January 2012; if Sligo Borough Council sought a derogation from the moratorium to recruit a replacement superintendent or caretaker for the city hall; the decision, if any, that was taken on this...

Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: It is difficult to offer a detailed alternative when during the past year we have continuously raised alternatives to the policies dealing with wealth, public spending, creating jobs and the national jobs plan. I wish to deal with some points made during the debate. Deputy Donohoe summed up the argument for the "Yes" side when he said, "Show me the money." Are we to see posters in the...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I propose to share time with Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan, Clare Daly and Mattie McGrath.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I was somewhat surprised by the Minister's opening contribution in the Chamber this evening when she announced her intention to implement the cut reducing to seven years the age limit for the lone parent allowance but stated she recognises that seven is too young to be left without a backup in respect of adequate child care. It is too young for a parent to make the first steps back to the...

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is correct to state that the some or all of the Irish banks were deemed insolvent at or prior to the recapitalisation of those banks; and if so, is it the case that some or all of the recapitalised banks were trading while insolvent. [19111/12]

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance the actions that are or have been taken with respect to the recapitalised banks and the personnel involved that were trading while insolvent and were in breach of the statutory obligations under company law [19112/12]

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Finance as some or all of the recapitalised banks were clearly trading and in the process of advancing loans and mortgages while in fact insolvent, the way such advances and loans can be legal, lawful and binding on those to whom such moneys were given by financial institutions that were at the time acting in breach of the licence conditions governing...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Finance who owns the Central Bank of Ireland; is it State owned, privately owned or a combination of both; the names and details of the directors and principal shareholders of the Central Bank of Ireland, whether privately owned or otherwise; the person who appoints the shareholders and directors; if owned and operated on behalf of the State, the person...

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the private commercial banks operating in Ireland which have benefitted from a subvention from the Government, the names and details of the directors of each; if he will name the public interest directors on the bank boards in Ireland; the way in which their remit is different to that of other directors of those banks; if he will...