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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 810. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has allocated funding for the Dalymount Park project; his views on the future funding and development of Dalymount Park including the potential role of Shelbourne Football Club within it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5452/16]

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: It is now seven weeks since the general election and the people have faced the charade of the election a Taoiseach for the third time. My understanding is that a vote to elect a Taoiseach is a vote to elect a Head of Government. On the three occasions on which people were nominated, none was capable of forming a Government. While this charade goes on in this House, the crises people are...

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: Many issues have arisen in the past week or so, not only gangland crime but also cancer services, which has been debated on the airwaves all day today and in the past few days, the industrial relations situation regarding Luas and the Tesco workers. Issues are arising and this Dáil is not functioning in the way it should in terms of trying to intervene in them. I appeal to Fianna...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (26 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 486. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount a company (details supplied) has paid in compensation for not providing a service on the days of the strike action by the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union workers. [8328/16]

Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: I join other Deputies in asking for the motion to be put on the agenda today. As a Deputy who stood in this and the last election in opposition to water charges, who has not paid them and who has stood against metering in communities because people believe it is the next step to privatisation, it is important that the democratic will of the people be discussed today. That is the problem...

Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: Why not take the issue out of the negotiations and bring it into the Dáil in line with the democratic mandate given by the people? Some 90 Deputies have been elected on a mandate to discuss and vote on the issue. We would welcome it if Fianna Fáil tabled amendments to the motion today.

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: I too congratulate the people who came out in their thousands in the past year and a half. Over 1 million people in seven major demonstrations walked shoulder to shoulder with the Right2Water movement which changed the face of politics in this country. After years of austerity, the straw that broke the backs of the people was water, Irish Water and the potential privatisation of a natural...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I will be brief because I am not really au faitwith the various aspects of the building sector. However, we are in a state of emergency and crisis because people have no homes. This committee was initiated in order to allow members to sit down and work with people with building know-how. Mr. Parlon made the point that the average ballpark figure for building a house is €300,000,...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)

Joan Collins: Can someone comment on the relevant contract tax, RTC, and the direct labour costs in the construction industry?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)

Joan Collins: My question is similar to the one I put to the CIF. I seek a breakdown of the cost of building a house. I generally agree that there has to be a national strategy and that it has to come from somewhere such as a ministry. I have always argued that the right to property brings with it responsibility. It always seems to fail on this aspect in the private end of things. I would like the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 62. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of surgery for a person (details supplied) and if he will ensure that the person receives surgery with immediate effect. [9209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water (5 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual wage bill for employees in Irish Water for 2015. [9200/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (5 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Sligo County Council purchased a house in 2015 to house persons (details supplied); that the council sought his approval for funding in October 2015 to construct an extension to the house, in compliance with the recommendation of the Health Service Executive’s occupational therapy service; that...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I remember distinctly my first day in the Dáil in 2011 and the Taoiseach made the point that we had seen a democratic revolution and he would keep his ear close to the ground. We did not have a democratic revolution. What we had was five years of severe austerity that has impacted so much on people's lives in how they live, how they work or do not work, how they raise their families,...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: -----nakedly go into government and look for ministerial positions. They could not nakedly do it but they are doing it from the back and through a silent group within that coalition. A ten-week charade was played out to deliver this sleight of hand-----

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: -----and the nine Independents are just the extras in the movie, the fall guys who deserve what is going to come to them, because it will come to them. The talk of new politics from Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil is laughable. There is nothing new here. This is a continuation of rule by two parties who have ruled on behalf of the elite since the foundation of this State. They have usurped...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: For me the legacy of the Labour Party's five years in Government can be summed up with one fact: the doubling of child poverty in this country over recent years.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: That is the Labour Party's legacy.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: There is nothing to be proud of when one in nine children lives in poverty. It is an enormous shame that the tradition of the Labour Party has been frittered away by a succession of leaders and career politicians who consistently put the spoils of office before their responsibility to build a mass alternative to change society. That was the ideal of Connolly and Larkin, to build a mass...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: That was what they had in mind, not where we are today and the fact that the Labour Party frittered away any support it had before. Those of us who now have the honour of carrying out that task will not squander that opportunity. We will play our role in building that alternative. People who went out and voted on 26 February have the right to change, not the change we have seen in this...