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Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Services Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: The issue I have sought permission to raise is a very important one for women who are survivors of breast cancer and find themselves seeking support from the HSE after a mastectomy. The backdrop is that breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women in Ireland, second only to lung cancer. It affects a significant number of women nationally. Statistics show that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: The programme for Government, particularly under health, has a commitment to treat all our people equally and uniformly across the country. Late last week and earlier this week, it came as a huge surprise to survivors of breast cancer to learn the HSE had changed its policy on providing supports to post-mastectomy products to women who had been through a breast cancer procedure. There was a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 59. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA client visits to each county in 2017, by month, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31962/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 60. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the regional job targets and unemployment rate projections under the programme for Government for 2020 and enterprise 2025, by year and by region, in tabular form; the latest figures at hand for these targets; the monitoring and reporting mechanisms in place; her job targets up to 2020 by region; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 61. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of members of each regional action plan implementation committee, by region, in tabular form; the gender breakdown; when each committee was first established; and the number of meetings held to date in 2017 and projected for the year. [31966/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 62. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the European Union free trade agreements entered into since 2000 that have included dispute settlement mechanism based on the WTO dispute settlement mechanism in tabular form. [31967/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 63. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the European Union free trade agreements entered into since 2009 which include investor to state dispute settlement mechanisms in trade and investment agreements in tabular form. [31968/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 64. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of bilateral trade agreements entered into by EU member states since the late 1960s which contain provisions to protect investments and investor to state dispute settlement. [31969/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Protected Disclosures (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the ESB has a formal protected disclosure policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32011/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 256. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of extending social protection supports to the self-employed and permitting such persons to opt into the existing class A structure for jobseeker’s benefit. [31963/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (6 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 257. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of extending social protection supports to the self-employed and permitting such persons access to invalidity pension for three, six, nine and 12 months of a calendar year, respectively. [31964/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (5 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31617/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (5 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering using a premises (details supplied) as accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31581/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: 218. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to reverse a decision (details supplied) which impacts breast cancer survivors by reducing the supports provided through post-mastectomy products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31809/17]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: There would be a merit-based reasoning.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: The first person might not take the job. There are plenty of reasons for such a ranking process. I am just pointing to the hypocrisy. What has the Government got against the Chief Justice who is an independent and reputable person and officeholder in this country? Were the President to become incapacitated, under the Constitution, the Chief Justice would form one of the backfills, so to...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this legislation. I will take the opportunity to wish the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan, well in his new role. He will bring much energy and vigour to the role. He was a justice spokesperson at one time. That was before he backed the wrong horse but he has landed into the hot seat now and I wish him well. He was taken out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: I thank the witnesses for their very informative presentation, which was very powerful. Given what we have heard today, which is disturbing and of concern, it would be right to hear from the other actors who are not behaving as they should be, as outlined by Mr. Fleming, for example, the Maritime Survey Office, MSO, the Workplace Relations Commission, which used to be NERA, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: Could Mr. Fleming advise us whether there is a way to partly address the cases he has outlined to us? Is there a way of tying the policing of this problem to the licensing of the fishing vessel? Has that approach been considered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)

Niall Collins: This is my final question, as I have to leave for an appointment at 6 p.m. Could Mr. Fleming just expand a little on his experience of dealing with An Garda Síochána as a first point of contact when an issue of assault of criminality arises vis-à-vis his experience with the PSNI, the police in the UK or Interpol?