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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: 1064. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the children's outpatient trauma service in Tallaght hospital, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24573/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (16 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: 1802. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of recent reports, that football clubs (details supplied) will be ground sharing a redeveloped Dalymount Park under the management of Dublin City Council in the near future, the type of funding his Department envisaged or ring-fenced for the project; his views on the overall project; and if he will make a statement on the...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: I am sorry I missed the witnesses' presentation, which is why I did not contribute before now because I was not going to make comment on a conversation I did not hear. On GPs coming out of colleges with huge debts of €120,000 or so, how do we keep those individuals in the country? Perhaps the committee needs to look at a strategy, from the point of view of salary, to deal with that...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: A number of the questions I had intended to ask have already been posed, so I will not repeat them. I will be interested to hear the witnesses' response to the points raised by Deputy Kelleher. It is obvious that there had to be a change in culture. Dr. Fawsitt spoke about moving the food to deal with stray cats. Smokers can try and try again to give up cigarettes, but that will not...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: Yes, to follow up on the point made by Deputy Louise O'Reilly, private hospitals are offering young professional nurses bonuses of €5,000 in addition to what they are currently earning if they sign a contract. The Government is not showing respect to 600 nurses and midwives who reached an agreement with the Health Service Executive. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform...

Pharmacy Fees: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: I support the motion. We have witnessed another exposé that sickens many people to their stomachs. Some of the staff are on huge money while many others have had their pay cut by 10%. A large multinational was able to set up a system to generate more income for a period under the HSE's radar. The HSE says that when all the medication was dispensed to a patient on the same date,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (27 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has received an application from Sligo County Council for a foreshore licence in respect of the development of the proposed pier and pontoon scheme in Rosses Point, County Sligo; when the licence will be signed and issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26838/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Staff (27 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: 339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department received a request for additional resources from the chief executive of Sligo County Council; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the chief executive of the council is seeking the additional resources due to a number of factors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Library Services Staff (27 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department received a request from Sligo County Council to approve the filling of vacant positions in the Sligo County Library Service; when the request was received; the number of positions for which approval was sought; if the filling of any vacancies were approved; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (27 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the percentage reduction in the staffing level in each individual local authority since January 2008, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26897/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (27 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: 391. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the cost of education allowance of €300, which was paid in addition to the back to education allowance, was abolished in the 2013 budget; if he will now consider reinstating the cost of education allowance or provide a new allowance to assist students to offset the costs of travel, lunches,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (27 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: I will be brief. I thank the witnesses for coming in. I know that Age Action and Social Justice Ireland have done tremendous work over the past seven years, highlighting inequality and campaigning vigorously for budgets that were tested and checked for equality. Unfortunately, however, that has not happened. I take on board everything the witnesses have said. We know what we will get...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: I support this simple Private Members' motion that clearly reads, "That Dáil Éireann calls on the Government to abolish household water charges and fund investment in water and sanitation infrastructure through progressive taxation." It is signed by myself, by Sinn Féin Members and by Independents 4 Change Members so it is a broad motion. Fianna Fáil's role in this issue...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: I hope Professor Pollock can hear me.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: This committee has been established to discuss how to provide a health service that is free at the point of entry and to which everybody can have equal access. There are interests in this country's health system that do not want such a service to be provided. Health care is a lucrative area for private companies, including private hospitals. We must base our recommendations on evidence. I...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Management of Chronic Care Illness: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: Many of my questions have already been asked and I will not go over them again. Our health system between hospitals, GPs, care etc. is fairly broken. Up to 2007 or 2008, GPs were able to make a good living. Consultants and hospitals were protecting whatever they had. I have listened to what the witnesses said about implementing that care in the community, changing the mindset of the...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Management of Chronic Care Illness: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: Do we have to be part of that? Should we be recommending what the GPs are explaining to us here? Having listened to the witnesses who have contributed to date, I am convinced that care in the community should be the focus. The question is how we do that. We talked to people about the Carlow-Kilkenny model last week. Why are other GPs not organising themselves to do that with their own...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Management of Chronic Care Illness: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: Professor Pollock said earlier that for us to go even any way to bringing in a universal health care system, we must legislate first. Are the witnesses saying that legislation must come first and everything else should then fall into it?

Report of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Motion (29 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Róisín Shortall for proposing the establishment of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare. This is the first time I have been involved in a committee that has collectively tried to grasp the complex nature of the health service. Finding out about its various parts and the way in which it operates is like going into a minefield. At recent meetings of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Sep 2016)

Joan Collins: 200. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to invest in home based care to support and enable persons with dementia to remain living at home in budget 2017; and his views on whether an initial investment in the budget is necessary of at least over €50 million plus which then must be built yearly. [27843/16]