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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for attending. We have been looking forward to this for a while. The Data Protection Commission's report vindicates much of my thoughts about the PSC from the very beginning. Many people feel that this is a national identity card introduced by the back door and that the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, having established it for its own services,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: Is it backdated for those who apply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: That is discrimination, if the Department is bringing in a system which states that one will lose a month's payment because one is not using the PSC to apply online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I do not have a public services card.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: No, thank you. If I go to Revenue, can I access information without a public services card by using other traditional means?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: What about the Passport Office, the Student Universal Support Ireland grant or the national driver's licence? Can I access all those services without a PSC?

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with Deputies Connolly and Maureen O'Sullivan.

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: How much time do we have?

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: First, I refer to the email that Senator Dolan sent us today. It is important to record his point of view: "I have witnessed for the past 25 years the constant erosion of the practical life enhancing tool of a personal assistance service since it burst onto the political agenda in the early 90's under the leadership of Martin Naughton and ... People such as Dermot Walsh, Florence Dougall,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: Why would the Taoiseach not want more houses when he can give over to a developer public lands and have that developer potentially selling those homes in the private market for €420,000? This is public land. It all sounds very good but the fact of the matter is the Government's policies on solving the housing crisis are simply not working. The dogs in the street know that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: They are private developers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: That is where the ideological difference is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: It is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: Does the Taoiseach agree that the situation with the redevelopment of O'Devaney Gardens, a former council housing estate, is a fiasco? It was a fiasco from the start and it a fiasco now. It is an incredible situation given the scale of the housing and homeless emergency we face. This site, with 14 acres of prime land owned by the State and suitable for up to 800 housing units, has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: Free.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) has been received; when the application will be processed; when a decision will be made in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47731/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: 671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if financing in principle has been agreed for the proposal for an approved housing body to purchase 30% of the private units from a company (details supplied) at O Devaney Gardens. [47602/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: 674. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an agreement (details supplied) with Dublin City Council regarding the disposal of the O'Devaney Gardens lands was reviewed and approved by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47622/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (14 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I echo what Deputy Pringle said. Some of the workers have been working at the plant for over 30 years. They have invested their lives in the companies that have operated at it. SK Biotek commenced operations at the plant in December 2017 and gave a commitment to bring forward a contract of five years under the transfer of undertakings legislation. That is important legislation in...