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Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: By private developers.

Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I support the Bill brought forward by Solidarity-PBP. It is a very important Bill, and I have spoken on this issue a number of times in the Dáil in the past few years. In terms of the consultation process, the Minister has had 11 consultations and there are to be another four, but that is not dealing with the issue we are facing as a society. A recent report in The Irish Timessuggested...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels that should be in place in the urology department in St. James's Hospital (details supplied); and the current staffing levels in place. [23232/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Schemes (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 524. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the better energy warmer homes schemes; if his attention has been drawn to this situation; and his plans to change the criteria to address this situation. [22903/17]

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I support the motion. I generally support the tenor of the debate this evening. For three years now, we know that premiums have gone up very high by more than 50%. We know that more people are being forced into driving without insurance because they cannot afford the insurance as it is so high. I want to take the opportunity to deal with some of the issues that have been raised already...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the inpatient waiting list for the urology department in Saint James's Hospital for six months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months and 48 months respectively. [23481/17]

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Joan Collins: That is "alleged" fraud.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (23 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of family hubs which have been set up; the locations where hubs have been set up; the number of families that have been facilitated in each hub; the criteria for allocations; and the facilities that are provided in these hubs. [24618/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (23 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 586. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is pursuing the policy of freezing the introduction of pay by weight for waste collection in 2017; and the measures he has put in place to ensure the situation which occurred in 2016 will not happen again (details supplied). [24651/17]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome the motion proposed by my colleague, Deputy Catherine Connolly. I am glad that Independents 4 Change and other Deputies are supporting it. The motion should probably have come sooner. When these matters were being debated in 2012, there was disagreement about how the €110 million should be utilised to support survivors who were subjected to abuse over the years in State...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: The Deputy was in Government two years ago.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: What happened on Tuesday night when 30 children did not have anywhere to go or a roof over their heads is a blight on a society. These families ended up in Fairview Park and Mountjoy Square. Imagine having children aged under ten years outside at night looking for a safe place. This is an absolute failure on the part of the Government. Mr. Mike Allen of Focus Ireland stated in a radio...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: That is not the point. Some 200 families have to self-accommodate every day.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) to set up a national housing company of Ireland; and his plans to develop this type of policy for up to 700 sites owned by local authorities and other State owned land, particularly the DCC land initiative plan at St Michael's,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Data (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of persons in hotel and bed and breakfast emergency accommodation as of 20 May 2017; the number of persons that are in hotels; the number in bed and breakfast accommodation; and the locations in which these families will be housed on 1 July 2017. [24792/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Assessments (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an address (details supplied) is mapped as a flood risk area; his views on the situation whereby persons cannot get insurance for a home they are looking to buy in these circumstances; and the options available for the persons involved. [25192/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (25 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 245. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on bin collection companies introducing a pay by weight system on waste over a certain weight; and if this been agreed with him and the waste industry. [25111/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (30 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 317. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of craft workers relevant to the construction industry now in receipt of social welfare payments (details supplied). [26024/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Benefits Data (30 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 318. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons receiving a jobseeker's payment under 26 years of age; and the number of persons receiving the payment in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016. [25932/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Applications (30 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will report on the delays in processing maternity benefit claims; the time it is now taking to process the postal claims and online claims; and the number of claims that are taking two weeks, a month, two months or longer, respectively. [25929/17]