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National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: A person is entitled to resign if he or she wants to and that is fair enough. That is what the Minister is saying but in the period prior to Mr. Quinn's resignation on 7 August, from January of this year, did he raise issues of concern relating to cost controls or governance in the context of procurement? Did such concerns pass the desk of the Minister for Health or the Minister for...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I will ask one more question as I have one minute left. In terms of private patients having access to the hospital's laboratory and diagnostic facilities, will that be transparent too?

National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: The Minister did that. It is public. The Government line is that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, found an additional €200 million this summer which will be used to fund the children's hospital and broadband projects. However, the children's hospital needs more than an additional €100 million a year for four years, and it is far from clear...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I was scathing earlier this year when it emerged that the cost of the building of the children's hospital had escalated from €987 million in 2017 to €1.4 billion. I called for building to stop and for an investigation into the overrun. We know now that the total bill is expected to be more than €1.7 billion when other costs are included for the total cost has yet to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. McMahon very much. One of the reasons we were very keen to ask Mr. McMahon to come into the committee was because of his experience over the last 20 years to 25 years. It is a damning indictment of one State organisation turning the blind eye when it was needed. The key time was in 2000, when Mr. McMahon was taking his case and when that group, which included representatives of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Yes, and that is where this collusion started. It probably was not a deliberate collusion. It was probably just-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: That is a good clarification and I thank Mr. McMahon. I want to ask Mr. McMahon about the relationship between the Social Welfare Appeals Office and the Department. We have raised this before in our deliberations around the bogus self-employed. Scope makes a decision and then an employer or a worker can appeal-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: -----to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is not employed by the Department, is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: That is a good clarification. We need to look at that. There is a failure there. As Mr. McMahon said, once the appeal comes through from the employer, then everything that Scope decided on and all the information it got is just dead in the water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. McMahon. The other question I wanted to ask was about the classification and an employer classifying an employee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Is that an area where it can be-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I note that the group outside Leinster House today comprises very professional and committed ambulance paramedics who are highlighting their right to join the union of their choice, not the boss' choice. This issue was raised last June when they were previously outside the gates. The Minister then said he was talking to management in the HSE. An all-party group of Deputies asked for a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: On a point of order, the Minister did not respond to our question. Will he meet the all-party group that wrote to him?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the 36 piloted schools initially targeted under the school meals programme serving hot meals will now be a permanent programme; and her plans to extend the scheme to additional schools. [42470/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the ongoing issues relating to the public services card and the Data Protection Commissioner, in particular as it relates to the requirement for a card to access the new national childcare scheme. [43639/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the payment of wages Bill is not robust enough to protect workers in the hospitality industry in view of the issues that came to light at pre-legislative scrutiny recently. [43638/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken to carry out the necessary assessment required under section 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014. [43749/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps taken to carry out the necessary assessment required under section 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014. [43750/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (23 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the initiatives undertaken by her Department to fulfil its statutory obligations under section 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014. [43755/19]

Child Maintenance: Motion (22 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I welcome to the Visitors Gallery the representative of One Family and SPARK-Ireland and commend them on their excellent work with their communities. A woman who contacted me said she is just living on her nerves from day to day. She has been divorced for nine years and has been in and out of court with her ex-partner trying to sort maintenance. He has a court order. When the two leave...