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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)
Joan Collins: I attended the meeting last week with IBEC, whose attitude is quite astounding. It is the case that while we have not seen definite figures for people who came forward in the requested survey, we know that bogus self-employment occurs in various sectors, including those relating to journalists, English language teachers, pilots, construction and couriers. I received an email from a young...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)
Joan Collins: 14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce legislation on bogus self-employed contracts; if so, the parameters of the planned Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15510/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Payments (4 Apr 2019)
Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has taken or is planning to take to accelerate the payment process for the working family payment (details supplied). [15599/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (3 Apr 2019)
Joan Collins: 222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if proposals brought to Cabinet to protect persons trapped in bogus self-employment will include new legislation and stronger enforcement regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15620/19]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)
Joan Collins: I was hoping the Minister for Health would still be here. In recent times we have been informed that cervical tests were being delayed because of a lack of capacity in the laboratories that test them but over the weekend it was reported that women paying privately receive their results in two to three weeks, which is brilliant for them but not for the 78,000 women who have been waiting up to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: The most important question, probably, is how the employers' group defines bogus self-employment. I beg to differ with the remarks made regarding the construction industry. In 1999, the Committee of Public Accounts instructed Revenue to investigate bogus self-employment in construction. That investigation found that 20% of people were found to be misclassified as self-employed. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: The point was made about 2017 and the misclassification and the €60 million and so on. However, Ms Winters did not acknowledge that in 1999 the Committee of Public Accounts instructed Revenue to investigate bogus self-employment in the construction industry. A level of 20% was identified. This is not something that only happened in 2017 or 2015; it goes back to 1999. What I am...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019) Joan Collins: I have to leave in a few minutes. Would be it okay if I ask two questions before I do so?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019) Joan Collins: Figures on the percentage of the population at risk of poverty for 2017 and 2018 are not yet available. We have already received the report from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in respect of the 2017 figures for lone parents, which have increased significantly on what they were in 2017. The income disregard for lone parents is welcome but according to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019) Joan Collins: Thank you.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019) Joan Collins: I thank the Minister.
- Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: It is a pity the Ceann Comhairle was not here at the start of the debate because he would have been able to cut across the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, who gave a contribution that went way beyond the process.
- Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: I think we should all be entitled to do that in the House tonight. I support the People Before Profit motion and have co-signed it with 25 other Deputies. The first point I want to make on the process is to note that there is already precedent for this policy of seeking to prohibit the issue of licences for exploration for fossil fuels off coastlines. In December 2017, France passed...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (26 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: 669. To ask the Minister for Health when a primary care centre (details supplied) will be approved. [13070/19]
- Period Poverty: Motion (13 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: First I would like to say that I support the Private Members' motion put forward by the Women's Caucus. It is a positive motion and I have signed it. The points that have been made by Plan International Ireland are quite stark, but they are nothing new for a lot of women and men in our society. Nearly half of teenage girls across Ireland struggle to afford sanitary products during their...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Union Recognition (13 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to accept the invitation from the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, in relation to the ongoing dispute between the HSE and unions (details supplied); and if he will ensure that he has read and examined the health sector national staff surveys of 2016 and 2018. [12599/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Union Recognition (13 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: Will the Minister for Health instruct the HSE to accept the invitation from the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, on the ongoing dispute between the HSE and Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, which represents the National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA, branch? Will he ensure that he has read and examined the health sector national staff surveys of 2016 and 2018,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Union Recognition (13 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: This is not a breakaway union. The PNA has negotiated and represented members of the health service for the past 49 years. It has a long history of advocating on behalf of staff and patients to ensure the delivery of quality health and mental health issues. The NASRA branch of the PNA has represented its members in a variety of industrial relations fora, including the WRC and Labour Court...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Union Recognition (13 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: I am disappointed that the Minister for Health is not here. He knew the questions would be taken today, even though he obviously had plans to travel for St. Patrick's Day. He should be here to answer these questions. I am not questioning the Minister of State but the Minister for Health should be accountable. It is absolutely outrageous that the HSE has taken this decision. It has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Union Recognition (13 Mar 2019)
Joan Collins: He knew the questions were being taken today.