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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I appreciate that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting for the procedure. [49803/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 173. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49820/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and the reason for the delay. [49821/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: My questions have been addressed.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I will be brief because Deputy Brady has raised most of the issues. Many people feel that they have been living under the umbrella of austerity since 2008. The fact that only 85% is being given in the Christmas bonus reflects that. Why is the Government not giving 100% back, particularly as the social insurance payments are higher? Why is there an increase of 8.2% in disability...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I would welcome that report on the bogus self-employed. Many in industry are waiting for us to analyse it. As soon as I walk out of here, I will get loads of phone calls from constituents asking if the Minister said that they would get the shortfall due to the 2012 anomaly returned to them. To be clear, the Minister has the report and reckons she will be able to go to a sub-Cabinet...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: We are taking ten minutes each. Before I turn to the Bill, I wish to set out a few background points. In budget 2009, medical cards were means tested and the automatic entitlement to a medical card for over-70s was abolished. In the emergency budget of 2009, the social welfare Christmas bonus was abolished, jobseeker's allowance for those under 20 was reduced to €100 per week,...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: Deputy Daly has tabled amendments to delete the reference to Social Welfare Act 2017 and substitute "Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2017". She has tabled a number of amendments to the Pensions Act 1990 to the effect that solvent firms should not be allowed to close a defined pension benefit scheme except when the scheme has reached a minimum standard of six consecutive weeks. Another...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: First-Aid Training (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when Government funded, compulsory occupational first-aid training will be introduced for all physically able teachers and SNAs (details supplied). [50177/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools in the Dublin 8, 10 and 12 areas that have an autism spectrum disorder, ASD unit (details supplied). [50178/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Staff (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 231. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the number of special advisers employed, including the new special adviser recently recruited from a company (details supplied), by him; the roles these advisers perform; and the amount they are paid. [50256/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the process of tendering for the shop in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin ; and when it went out for tender and so on (details supplied). [49950/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the shop in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, is no longer under the management of the hospital; if the internal audit section or the board made the decision; and if so, if he will provide this Deputy with the minutes of the internal audit section in which that decision was made and the minutes of the hospital board meetings since January...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 523. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to his statement on 21 November 2017 (details supplied) if this type of community banking is linked in with the model (details supplied) of public banking in Germany. [50521/17]

Other Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether there is a problem regarding the issue of maintenance recovery in relation to lone parents, particularly lone parents who have proven abuse issues with a parent of their child; and if she has instructed her Department to examine resolving this issue in order that the child involved benefits from child...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: During the past week, while within the House there was the fiasco of a crisis that never should have been a crisis, life continued in the real world. Tragically, two homeless men died on the streets, one in Ranelagh on Monday night and the other outside the Four Courts. Two families came to my constituency office having been served with termination notices in respect of their homes in the...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for his report on the homelessness crisis, but what I wanted to raise with him is public housing on public land. That was the main content of my question. He sort of half dealt with it. Part of the approach of Rebuilding Ireland includes the proposal to have 125,000 people in HAP households. By 2021, that will cost the State €1 billion a year. Providing these...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Services (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Katherine Zappone, for coming into the House to discuss this question. I have received an email from Ms Aoife Hannan, the project manager with the Kilmainham Inchicore Network. It was sent on behalf of the child care professional group in Inchicore. The Minister has received a professional report that has been drawn up since...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Services (29 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. The case the group is making is that there is a particular need within the lower Inchicore area, where there is quite considerable deprivation. It is suggesting that the Minister target specific initiatives which would assist the community in the area. The level of child poverty in Our Lady of Lourdes national school is 22%. The rate in Dublin generally is 6.6%. We...