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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (18 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if a grant for a hearing aid is available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40829/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (24 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 534. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that when planning permission was granted for the Johnston Court development in Sligo it was a condition, under Part V of the Planning Act, that six of the 30 apartments in the development would be made available for social housing; that when the apartments were completed in May 2008 Sligo County Council...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (25 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if it is or ever has been the practice of any Irish maternity hospital, especially the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street in Dublin 2, to record surgeries, including emergency surgeries, visually as a matter of course (details supplied). [41959/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Special Education: Chairperson Designate (25 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: Chairman, I will have to leave in approximately half an hour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Special Education: Chairperson Designate (25 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: Mr. Stack is very welcome. Many areas have been covered by the other two Deputies. A great deal of good work is being done in respect of looking at the impact of education on children with special needs, including those with various forms of autism. It is a societal issue because as a society we said we would bring these children into mainstream education. Therefore, we must ensure they...

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: Cuan Álainn women's shelter is a secondary housing centre for women and children escaping from domestic violence. It gives women and children up to six months to live in safety and assists them in moving to permanent housing. It was set up by Respond! three and a half years ago when it saw a need for the service through its work as a housing agency. The service has been used by 71...

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: I am disappointed with the Minister's response. Those who work in the service with whom I have spoken were disappointed to be given notice to clear out the accommodation by 14 January. Where will Tusla continue providing such supports? I do not know what planet the Minister is living on to say that the families residing at the Cuan Álainn centre have "pressing housing needs" that...

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: I support the Bill introduced by Deputy Ellis because it is part of the process of discussing and teasing out exactly what is happening on the ground. It is not an accident that today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Corrie on the doorstep across the road. We in this House should all remember that tragedy. The people who supported the demonstration tonight outside this House...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on establishing a Traveller agency to drive urgent improvements in Traveller accommodation and to implement existing Traveller health, education and employment policies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37697/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 190 and 195 of 20 October 2015, if she will clarify that, as the JobBridge intern is not an employee of the company, the intern is covered by the host's employer liability insurance; and if she or the relevant JobBridge authority has viewed the host's insurance policy to ensure its...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 369. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on proposals from the family resource centres, FRCs, that funding for the family resource programme is ring-fenced within the Túsla - Child and Family Agency programme; that funding is also secured to meet the basic operational costs of running FRCs; that FRC projects be funded to ensure each is resourced with three...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Charges (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of an extra cost of €2 patients attending the Inchicore health clinic have to pay for their blood samples to be sent to St. James's Hospital in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42495/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 584. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his commitment to raise the cap from €220,000 for the mortgage to rent scheme, and if this commitment will come into force in the lifetime of this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42823/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 599. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 12 November 2015 and given his statement regarding oral agreements in relation to petroleum prospecting licences, if the companies involved have ever been informed in writing that no such licences were required. [42486/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 600. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 12 November 2015 and in view of his acknowledgement of agreements being done orally with companies (details supplied) regarding petroleum prospecting licences, and the link with the Environmental Protection Agency research project, if any oral or tacit agreements have also...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 601. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 12 November 2015 and given his statement on oral agreements in relation to petroleum prospecting licences when these deals were made; who made them; and if the companies involved have formally accepted them. [42488/15]

Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: That we are only a nuisance?

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: It is quite ironic we have gone through the marriage equality referendum with all the structures put in place for it. I heard Deputy Eric Byrne say the LGBT community should not be discriminated against. They should not. However, a LGBT who is a Catholic in a Catholic school will be discriminated against. That is the problem and why it is important we vote on these particular amendments....

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: It has been like that since 1831 and it was never an issue until recently.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (2 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has met with Respond Housing Association regarding the closure of a refuge centre (details supplied) in Dublin 24 on 12 December 2015. [42643/15]