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Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: Where is the Taoiseach's commitment?

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I raised this issue yesterday with the Taoiseach and I have to say his response was underwhelming. It turns out today we have heard the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, stating he will not meet the targets for taking families out of the emergency accommodation by 1 July, which the previous Minister, Deputy Coveney, promised earnestly to us and the Home Sweet Home campaign last December. The...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: What will the Government do about it? It is not good enough to take three months now to review Rebuilding Ireland. These families will be stuck again in accommodation that is not up to standard. It is an outrage.

Committee on the Future of Healthcare Report: Motion (22 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank the secretariat, the Trinity College team, the chairman, Deputy Shortall, and all my colleagues on the committee. There was an arduous 11 months of work on this report. I voted for the report in the committee despite the fact I believe it does not go far enough. Other Deputies think it goes too far. I will continue to support it and I will fight for its implementation in full....

Other Questions: National Mitigation Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the national mitigation plan on climate change has been brought to Cabinet; and when it will be brought to Dáil Éireann for debate. [29799/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Ireland will meet its climate change targets by 2020; and if not, his plans to ensure the targets are met between 2017 and 2020. [29800/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Climate Change Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way in which the national dialogue on climate change is being processed; when it will commence; the way in which it will be implemented; and his plans to bring this dialogue into communities and workplaces. [29928/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 322. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a group (details supplied) was not included on the consultative and advisory group on Moore Street. [29825/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 323. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a group (details supplied) was not included on the consultative and advisory group on Moore Street. [29826/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 324. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason an association (details supplied) founded in 1926 was not included on the consultative and advisory group on Moore Street. [29827/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 325. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she accepts the consultative group's report on Moore Street; if she accepts all of its recommendations; and the recommendations that she does not accept. [29828/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Legal Costs (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 326. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount it has cost in legal fees to date in 2017 on challenging the High Court ruling against the Minister and a company (details supplied) of March 2016; the origin of the moneys used; the amount her Department has costed the case if it is heard in the appeal court or in the Supreme Court; and the location from which that...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 327. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount the State has given in grants to property developers in Moore Street regarding the national 1916 historical monument. [30007/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Management (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 586 of 23 of May 2017, if the review he referred to regarding an incentivised system in regard to waste management has been completed; if the situation that ensued in 2016 whereby families were charged more for their waste collection than previously will not recur; if there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, and in particular the second last paragraph which refers to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, if the report is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2017; and if he has a target date of the third quarter of 2017. [30086/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, and in particular the second paragraph which refers to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, the persons who are on this expert group; the terms of reference of the group; and if an organisation (details supplied) has been asked to be on it. [30087/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, in particular the second last paragraph which refers to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, the scale of the cost of the rental agency being considered; and his views on whether it should be aiming at €10,000 to €20,000 per annum....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, in particular the reference to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, if it will be a semi-State company that progresses the cost rental model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30089/17]

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: I find the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Labour Party and potentially the Green Party position on this issue bizarre. All of them were complicit in the privatisation of our waste services, a service provided for 80 to 100 years through local authorities and introduced specifically to address the issue of cholera, waste on our streets and to prevent the spread of disease. It was a very...

Early Childhood Care and Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: I will speak for three minutes and my colleague, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, will speak for five minutes. I will be succinct in what I have to say. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this Private Members' Bill today. It is certainly at an opportune moment especially given what has been said about workers in the child-care sector, many of whom are facing a period on the dole from...