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Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: The elderly do not use laptops.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: There was €1.7 billion taken in the past few years, with €475 million to be taken this year. That is not protection.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: Reverse the cuts.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: I will try not to repeat what other speakers said. Earlier, when I joined the protesters outside the gates, I met a young woman who told me she had been looking forward to returning to work in January until she worked out the figures and discovered she would only gain €20 extra in so doing. The Minister is forcing lifestyle choices on women who are in the main the parent in one-parent...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the decision by FÁS - Solas to increase the age of eligibility from 15 to 16 for local training initiative courses, in particular the expected social impacts on previously eligible 15 year olds [39247/11]

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: I propose to share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy and Maureen O'Sullivan. These cuts in the Department of Social Protection are the meanest, cruelest, sneakiest and most unnecessary cuts this Chamber has seen. It has shocked people in the communities that a Labour Party Member is implementing these measures with so-called reluctance. In the last week of the election campaign, the...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: It is a different economy.

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: I welcome being part of this debate, which is a very important one to have this week, and I thank the Technical Group for tabling the motion. I speak as an internationalist, a European and an Irish person. It is important to put on the agenda what is happening now and the lessons of the past because I do not believe we have really learned from the lessons of the past. Many economists and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: Why are they being cut?

Financial Resolution No. 4: Value Added Tax (6 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: This is one of the many smash and grab proposals that does not make sense. This is part of austerity and part and parcel of taking more money out of people's pockets when they can ill afford to have it taken from them. Members said they have been contacted by people and have attended meetings. People from the Crumlin village area have contacted me, including one man who said that if this...

Written Answers — Economic and Monetary Union: Economic and Monetary Union (6 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance the contingency plans in place for Ireland to produce its own currency in the event of the euro collapsing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38505/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (6 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 394: To ask the Minister for Health with reference to the statement (details supplied) regarding the Health Service Executive's decision to close a nursing home, if he will confirm if the HSE's estimate of €3 million for essential works to make the home compliant with national quality standards include any additional measures, not agreed in the Health Information and Quality...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: Two weeks ago Deputy Daly and I asked a question on when the expert group on the ABC v. Ireland judgment would be set up. I understand the European Court of Human Rights instructed the Government to set it up before the end of November. Unfortunately, the Taoiseach's reply in writing is as vague as his replies to many Members in the Chamber. It does not state when it will be set up and I...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tUachtarán) 2011: An Dara Céim / Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Murphy for bringing this Bill forward. It offers an opportunity to speak on the general issue of the presidency. Many people in this country believe, and I certainly believed, that the presidency was only established as a grazing ground for the political elites in this country. It only became a political issue in the political debate surrounding Mary Robinson when she stood...

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I am sick of Labour Party Members claiming theirs is the only party opposed to the bank guarantee. If that is so, why are they supporting its extension? Are they saying that it is now necessary to do so in order to prevent deposit flight and a run on the banks? Those are the arguments used by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party for the...

Written Answers — Registry of Friendly Societies: Registry of Friendly Societies (30 Nov 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 93 industrial and provident societies have failed consecutively for the past five years to submit annual returns to the Registry of Friendly Societies; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that the non-filing of annual returns constitutes an offence under the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Finances: Local Authority Finances (30 Nov 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 128: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the outstanding debt at the end of 2010 of each local authority here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37812/11]

Written Answers — Urban Renewal Schemes: Urban Renewal Schemes (30 Nov 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 129: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority houses in the Cranmore estate, Sligo, that were vacant on 31 October 2011; the number that have been vacant for more than three months; if any of the regeneration funding provided by him in the current year has been used to refurbish vacant houses in the estate; when the vacant...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (30 Nov 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when Sligo County Council sought and received sanction from him for a term loan of €15 million in 2010 it stated in its application that the purpose to which the loan was to be applied was to fund balances in its capital account that remained unfunded,...

Water Services (30 Nov 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 15: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will provide funds to local authorities to update water infrastructure to deal with persistent flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37727/11]