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Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: I welcome the change in the 2000 Act to remove the ability of developers to make payments to local authorities in lieu of providing units for social housing. However, I do not understand why it is necessary to reduce the requirement for social housing from 20% to 10%. We have an urgent need for social housing, so what is the logic in reducing the obligation on developers to provide social...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (23 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: 307. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will meet with employees (details supplied) as soon as possible, to resolve a number of issues raised by these employees; and when he will meet them. [24893/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services (23 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: 425. To ask the Minister for Health his views in relation to the cross-Border directive regarding public patients; and if he will confirm that every general practitioner office, health centre, patient association, hospital, primary care unit, citizen's information centre, children's orthodontist service, and any other outlet that has access to public patients on waiting lists provides this...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (23 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: 591. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff employed in each level 5 position in each local authority in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24707/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (23 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: 592. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total allocation of funding to be provided by his Department to each regeneration project in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24708/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (24 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: 201. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding funding. [25412/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding rent supplement. [26334/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Funding (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: 195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has received any request for financial assistance from Galway City Council and from Sligo County Council in respect of costs associated with the recent visit of members of the British royal family; if his Department had budgeted for the visit; the level of funding his Department plans to provide to Galway City Council...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: 222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has received any request for financial assistance from Galway City Council and from Sligo County Council in respect of costs associated with the recent visit of members of the British royal family; if his Department had budgeted for the visit; the level of funding his Department plans to provide to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: 3. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the fact that all core funding for Rape Crisis Network Ireland has been cut and transferred to Tusla; and his views on the loss of valuable information to the Government and support for services for rape victims with the closure of the Royal College of Nursing. [27633/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: This question was asked as a Topical Issue recently and I read the Minister's reply. I wish to challenge some of the points made in the reply. I am not saying that funding for Rape Crisis Network Ireland should be reinstated but rather that we must remember the role of Rape Crisis Network Ireland, which has been crucial in collating data which has driven policy over the last 40 years. As...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: The information that the RCNI has developed over the past 40 years was very comprehensive. It is not necessary for every centre to be involved in supplying the information, although at one stage all 16 centres were involved. The type of information they gathered did not need full representation. It was not designed as an operational administrative tool but can easily deliver that small...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: If there is a system that works why break it? Why bring it into a bigger organisation that does not have, but would like to have, the expertise that RCNI has? Why was RCNI not brought into the system to give and maintain that information in a proper way? Since January, Tusla has not collected the information as set up by the RCNI, which is recognised internationally. The European...

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: 6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the 0.2% of gross domestic product investment in early-years services by comparison with the average of 0.8% across OECD countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27318/15]

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: Some 0.2% of GDP in this country is allocated for early years services by comparison with an average of 0.8% across the OECD. Does the Minister accept that the early years services model, dating from the Administration of Fianna Fáil, is not acceptable, and will he deal with the issue? Should a lot more money not be devoted to early intervention and child care?

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: A report commissioned by Tusla and the Irish Research Council is to be published soon by NUI Maynooth. It will show that the early childhood and after school care and education system offers too little too late in a child's life to have any real impact. Since the introduction of the early childhood care and education programme, child poverty has not decreased. It has almost doubled, from...

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: That is what I am saying.

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: Child poverty, in particular, and adult poverty, which has increased recently, could have been prevented had the Government made different choices. The Minister said the previous Administration left a terrible system in the HSE, which is correct. At that stage, I believe approximately 70 people were awaiting scoliosis treatment in Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin. However, under...

Other Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: It cannot and it will not.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Collins: I will give the Taoiseach a third opportunity to answer on the housing issue in Dublin City Council.