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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (25 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 156. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department allocated out of its budget for the conservation grant relating to Irish Water bills; the number of applications made and grants paid; and the total amount paid in 2015. [12018/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (26 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately overturn the decision to allow greyhounds to be airlifted to the Canidrome track in Macau in China and ban this practice. [12316/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will end the two-tier pay scales in the public service. [12535/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will reinstate the allowances to new-entry teachers. [12536/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I would like to make a longer statement but I know we are here to ask questions so I will try to keep my contribution fairly succinct. The problem is that social housing has not really been addressed here. All of the discussion is directed towards private financing for private developers to build houses that will probably cost between €300,000 and €350,000. People cannot...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Joan Collins: That is where that funding went through, yes.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Treasury Management Agency and Department of Finance (31 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I find it perverse that the Irish League of Credit Unions proposal has been before the Department of Finance since last October, when it wrote initially and we became aware of it, and not one house has been built or even gone to planning stage. The figure is €3 billion.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans for clearing the scoliosis waiting lists in Crumlin children's hospital in Dublin and in Galway University Hospital, including the filling of vacancies. [13669/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: 282. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate how annual charges can be kept at the rate of inflation or some other mechanism to protect households from an increase (details supplied); and if he will set up an investigation as to how the waste industry is implementing this new statute. [14990/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: 338. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he is continuing to issue letters to urge jobseekers to use financial institutions rather than post offices to collect their payment (details supplied). [14982/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Training (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: 442. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the validation and recognition of non-Irish qualifications. [14610/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Properties (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: 599. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to confirm that the Digital Hub has no objection in extending the lease for the Brú Aimsir emergency accommodation on James Street, Dublin 8. [14730/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Properties (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: 600. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Digital Hub has no objection or has an objection to extending the Brú Aimsir emergency bed facility beyond the 31 May 2016; and if there is no objection, for how long will it be extended. [14798/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance (8 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: 648. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address an issue (details supplied) regarding car insurance. [15014/16]

Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: Yes. Following on from that question, and I would like the Minister to reply succinctly to Deputy Daly's question, I do not believe we should go to a citizens' convention on this issue. We discussed the issue in great detail in the previous Dáil and we should move quickly now to repeal the eighth amendment.

Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: Will the Minister indicate if the Government is prepared to do that?

Insurance Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: The debate on this issue is based on the fact that people have been coming to Deputies' constituency offices. We have met many people, including taxi drivers who have seen their insurance increase by 300%, who are being quoted vastly outrageous charges for their insurance. I know of one particular case of a 28 year old woman who drives a Micra, which is 15 years old. The car has passed its...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: I am sharing my time Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett. One reason I submitted this topic is that I, along with other Deputies, received a number of e-mails yesterday on St. Augustine's special needs school, run by St. John of God Community Services Limited. As evident in the discussion on WALK PEER, we are seeing services being pulled from people with disabilities. In the case I wish to...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The key issue, as he noted and the letter from St. John of God community services states, is that demand for residential services in St. Augustine's special school has decreased. Nevertheless, regardless of whether only two or three children are involved, they should be facilitated through the provision of services. It is crucial that disabled...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that national schools of all patronages, when seeking State recognition and thereby State funding, legally commit themselves to be bona fide open to children of all religious denominations and none and that the commitment to not discriminate on religious grounds on entry to all of these schools remains the first part of the ethos of...