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Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Social Protection, following on from recent press statements about the level of reporting of social welfare fraud, if she will release to this Deputy and the media the actual percentage of proven fraud, not just suspected fraud, as it relates to the €25.9 million figure for 2010; her views on these matters, especially in relation to her poor...

Written Answers — Local Government Audit Service: Local Government Audit Service (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that by majority vote on 19 December 2011, the members of Sligo County Council adopted the council budget for 2012 presented by the county manager; if his attention has been drawn to comments (details supplied); if he has examined the said budget and, if so, whether...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: The reality for ordinary people is completely different from what is set out in the Government amendment. The Sinn Féin Party's proposal is far more representative of the true situation. This morning the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine issued an alarming statement on the crisis in hospitals throughout the State, with a particular focus on children's hospitals. At Crumlin...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 27: In page 20, after line 24, to insert the following: "26.—In the event of an agency worker being denied access to amenities or facilities to which he or she is entitled a minimum compensation of €1,000, increasing in line with the Consumer Price Index, shall apply in addition to an order compelling the employer to give such access." The amendment was tabled in...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: We discussed this issue earlier and we recognised the fact that it takes almost a year and a half to have a case heard by a Rights Commissioner. A penalty such as this would deter employers from denying workers access to their amenities and facilities and I would like the amendment to be accepted.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Yes.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 26: In page 20, after line 24, to insert the following: "26.—The employment agency and the employment to which the agency worker is assigned shall be jointly and severally liable for all breaches of this Act with the exceptions of the matters of facilities and amenities for which the employer who is end user shall be solely responsible.". My colleagues and I wish to...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: I accept that the Minister has taken on board some of the points we have made. However, the issue in regard to pension schemes, as set out in section 6, must be dealt with. Otherwise there will remain a serious inequality, whereby agency workers will not have the same arrangements as full-time employees. Will the Minister review this matter? A person's entitlements on retirement is an...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: No.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (21 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the status of the Residential Institutions Statutory fund of €110 million; if he will confirm the purpose of the fund and the persons who may access it; and the criteria there will be for survivors to access the fund. [9238/12]

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport in view of the distribution of €23 million from the Smarter travel fund to Limerick, Dungarvan and Westport, if he will report on the way the decision was made to award funding to these areas; and the criteria the short-listed proposals, including Drimnagh, Dublin, would need to meet to achieve this funding and is there...

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State is right to say there was a great deal of support and community activity around the bid for smarter travel. People in Drimnagh and in the other areas were led to believe the competition list had been reduced first to 11, then to four, two of which were in Dublin, Drimnagh and either Sandyford or Sandymount - I cannot remember which - and two outside Dublin. When the...

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Another went to Limerick, where the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, is based and there was Dungarvan which is-----

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: -----the ground of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, the Minister of State, Deputy Paul Kehoe, and others. There is a question mark. The communities asked me to raise this matter in the Dáil. Will the Minister of State give a breakdown of the bids from each area and on what they were based? He mentioned that the Galway bid concerned a project that was too big...

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: We understood this €50 million was to come from the EU, not from our own finances. However, the Minister of State stated that was the reason for the reduction to €23 million. We would very much welcome this in Drimnagh where many parts, including the junctions, roads and pathways, need to be upgraded significantly. It would give tremendous support to the people of Drimnagh who, as the...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health if he will, as a matter of urgency, restore the mammography services to Sligo General Hospital in order to alleviate the stress on patients travelling to University Hospital Galway and to alleviate the stress on services at UHG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8917/12]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding a resource centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8933/12]

Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: In his opening remarks, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, said this jobs plan marked a new approach. I wish it did because job creation is key to the country getting out of the economic quagmire it is in due to its over-reliance on the construction industry while not concentrating on indigenous job creation over the past ten years. There is nothing new in this...

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Here we go.

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the setting aside of the decision to close St. Brigid's nursing home, Crooksling, pending a review, whose terms of reference have yet to be published, although Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, has been instructed not to refer patients there. [8492/12]