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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage-setting Mechanisms (28 May 2019)

Joan Collins: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ban businesses from adding service charges that often go to the employer and not staff. [22744/19]

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Clare Daly for bringing about a debate on this issue. I welcome the survivors who are here to listen to the debate. This motion is being supported by the Coalition of the Mother and Baby Homes Survivors. We did not put forward this motion because it had dropped out of a clear blue sky. It is clear that the records held by Tusla in respect of Bessborough mother and baby home...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Legislation (9 May 2019)

Joan Collins: The letter and petition have been drawn up by professional carriage drivers and owners who were operating under license from Dublin City Council. They want to be part of a system that is legal. They want to know that they are covered under the by-laws. It has been six months since Deputy O'Sullivan raised this matter. The Minister's reply to Deputy O'Sullivan stated that he would ensure...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Legislation (9 May 2019)

Joan Collins: At lunchtime, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan and I accepted a petition from 11 carriage drivers who came down from Merrion Road. They gave it to us in order that we might hand it to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. Councillors Cieran Perry and Deirdre Heney accepted a petition from the same carriage drivers to hand to the CEO of Dublin City Council. The letter is entitled "Dublin...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Joan Collins: A survey on this issue has been carried out on restaurants in Galway and it has been proven that this practice goes on quite regularly. Senator Gavan produced that survey. Information is also available in respect of The Ivy restaurant; the Minister will have seen the payslips. There have also been reports in the media in respect of the Hard Rock Cafe and other restaurants and retailers who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Joan Collins: There are many serious and important issues to be raised here today and I want to raise again the issue of workers' rights. This is the first opportunity to do so since May Day or International Workers' Day last Wednesday. I contacted the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in advance to make her aware that I would ask this question and seek clarity. On 7 March last when...

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: The Minister has failed, his Government has failed, and in some ways many people here on the left have failed because we have not held them to account. I am really looking forward to a general election to challenge the Government on these issues.

Youth Homelessness: Statements (18 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Like everybody else here, we are exasperated by the fact that we are back again to speak about homelessness and frustrated by the sight of people walking into our constituency offices, including with children in prams, because they have been served with notices to quit and their landlords are selling the properties in which they live. There is no tangible response from the Government on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (16 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in the Dublin 8 and 10 areas diagnosed with a need for an ASD unit placement for primary school through assessments of needs. [17743/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (16 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in the Dublin 6, 6W and 12 areas diagnosed with a need for an ASD unit placement for primary school through assessments of needs. [17745/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (16 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 12 March 2019, if he will provide a list of the schools (details supplied). [17750/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (16 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: 217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of the 200 new Garda recruits allocated to the Kilmainham, Sundrive, Kevin Street, Ballyfermot and Crumlin Garda stations. [17368/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: This issue has been brought up on the floor of the Dáil possibly every week in recent weeks. That is reflective of how unjustifiable Members feel it is that these workers are not getting the chance and the recognition to join the union of their choice. The PNA branch went on strike yesterday, which was the sixth strike it has had in recent months and it had an action day on 27 March...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: I am also very disappointed. It is the standard reply that we have been getting even though we were hoping that this was moving on behind the scenes in at least having some sort of negotiation with the officials and representatives from the PNA. NASRA represents nearly 500 members. When the HSE stopped collecting the dues from members' pay, it had about 350 members. Another 150 to 200...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Yet again we have a Private Members' motion on housing, or the lack thereof. I have no problem supporting motions or Bills on housing that put forward progressive arguments, strategies and proposals to go some way towards resolving the housing emergency we face. I agree with many parts of the Private Members' motion put forward by the Labour Party, but I want to ask a question which perhaps...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: It accelerated the crisis.

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Some 75% of social housing tenancies are now being provided through private landlords. That is absolutely outrageous. The HAP is being used as a long-term answer to housing need rather than a short-term measure. I will finish on this note, as I notice the time passing. Thanks to the Labour Party, €390,000 was spent on HAP for 500 households in 2014 but by last year,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: I think we have an impersonator in the Dáil Chamber to talk about children, given what happened to lone parents when she was Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Further to Deputy Barry's question to the Tánaiste, the Minister for Health has stated publicly that he wants to see a resolution of the ambulance paramedics dispute, not confrontation. What the Tánaiste has proposed today is not in any way a solution. The HSE is refusing to talk to the paramedics. It has even refused to discuss contingency plans for today's strike action and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Joan Collins: Would the Tánaiste not think of approaching the HSE in order to bring the strike action to an end?