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Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: It was from Fine Gael. The Minister must be aware of it as it came from his party.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: Every Deputy and I would like to see-----

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: The senior counsel said he had received a letter from Fine Gael. If he received that letter, we would all like to see it.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: If there are two letters, we would like to see the two of them, or three or four or whatever.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: Any correspondence to the senior counsel should be circulated to all Deputies in this Dáil.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: We should be extremely proud of what has been achieved so far by the Right2Water movement. The collection of the PPS numbers by Irish Water as an asset to be sold when it was privatised was stopped in its tracks. Water charges intended as €800 to €1,000 per household per year has been abolished. There has been no attempt to force water meters on working-class communities who...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: None of the parties involved in this row, Fine Gael, the Labour Party or Fianna Fáil, have any right to be righteous about water wastage, as I said on Saturday. They are the parties that presided over decades of under-investment in our water system which has allowed up to 47% of expensive treated water leak away through an antiquated system of underground pipes. They have some neck....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: 271. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in the public hospital system; and the number of beds reserved for private patients of consultants. [18440/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Medals (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: 412. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces are being ordered to wear the new 1916 commemorative medal (details supplied); if this is an unintended mistake; if he will correct this anomaly by ensuring the service medals of 1916 and the War of Independence are inexorably listed to the fore of any official precedent here involving State primary service medals; and...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: 413. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to implement reimbursement for Defence Forces personnel for the mounting of medals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18975/17]

Standing Order 27: Motion (2 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I find it incredible that we are debating this issue. This is the 21st century. We need to move on. We need to recognise that religious belief, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim or other, is a personal matter to be respected but it is not the business of the State or Parliament to endorse in any way any particular religious belief. Standing Order 27 does precisely that. It calls on a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (3 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 66. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the serious lack of services for children with complex and non-complex intellectual and physical disability needs in a special needs school (details supplied); the number of parents who have contacted him regarding problems accessing services in the school; the length of time since his attention was drawn to the problems accessing speech and...

Standing Order 27: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 3: To delete all words after “That” were it firstly occurs and substitute the following: “with effect from 9th May, 2017, the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business be amended by the adoption of the following in substitution for Standing Order 27: ‘27. Upon taking the Chair each day, and before any business is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank the committee for inviting Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, Ms. Treasa Brannick O’Cillín and me to appear before it today to begin the pre-committee scrutiny of the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016 and the proposed constitutional amendment contained therein. This proposed constitutional amendment seeks to address...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: Yes. Clearly, we are talking about the public water system. We are not talking about group water schemes, boreholes or private water systems, which are constituted differently. If the Government perceives a problem in its own situation in respect of the public-private aspect, the Department should tell members where the problems arise and explain them. The Department has not clarified why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to debate this Bill. It is important there is clarity around the issues concerned. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights did not include water because it was not envisaged 70 years ago that private companies would be set up to run water services. In 2010, 122 countries agreed that water sanitation is a fundamental human right. That was a very important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: It is regulated by-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: For the purposes of clarification, I welcomed the Minister's invitation to meet officials of the Department. We met once, at which point he was sending the information to the Attorney General for feedback. I respect the fact that there is a process and that we have to try to get this right. At the same time, however, we should try to move things on. I certainly do not want to attend...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: Last summer, the Minister with responsibility for housing, Deputy Simon Coveney, made a commitment that by 1 July this year no homeless families would be left in hotels. More than 800 families are still in this situation with six weeks to go. Maybe when the Minister made this commitment he was hoping that by 1 July he would have moved on to better things and some other Minister would have...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach called my proposal facile. I call his policy a failure. As I expected, he has come back with figures, projections and plans, none of which add up. They are a fantasy. It is a fantasy to believe that the private sector, which was responsible for the problem in the first place, will now be the solution. I am talking about local authority homes. I refer the Taoiseach and...