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Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I seek clarity from the Minister of State. Did he say this would happen at the Cabinet meeting on 18 January?

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: The Minister gave a strong indication that it would happen before Christmas and would go to Cabinet at its next meeting.

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: What about the sub-committee?

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I will not be withdrawing my amendment as I do not trust the Minister of State as far as I could throw him.

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: We have had the Paradise Papers, Panama Papers and the Luxembourg Leaks. We have to call these leaked documents by their proper name: they amount to an international white-collar criminal conspiracy on an industrial scale. Let us consider the so-called legal end of the conspiracy: tax avoidance. Oxfam estimates that $100 billion per year is lost in much-needed state revenue. This...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: My question is on waiting lists in hospitals. 3 o’clock Ms Aisling Corcoran, a young woman from Castlebar, County Mayo, had an infected rod removed from her back in 2013. This issue has been raised in the Dáil over a number of years. She is still waiting. She was subsequently removed from Galway to Tallaght. She was due to have an operation on 4 September.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: This is very important.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: It needs to be raised. The operation was cancelled. On 21 November, it was again cancelled. This girl has not been waiting three months, six months or a year; she has been waiting nearly five years for an operation on her back that is badly needed. She goes to work every morning and has to come home early because of the pain in her back. I want a Government intervention to deal with this...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I have been submitting this matter for the past five years.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: She is not my constituent, she is from Galway. I have already contacted the HSE's parliamentary affairs division.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: 310. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of consistent respite for persons at a location (details supplied) and the lack of houses available in the community. [52845/17]

Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: Before this evening's debate, I went back over information that I had gathered over recent years in relation to the campaign by the deaf community to have Irish Sign Language, ISL, recognised. I found the Irish Deaf Society's list of the ten main reasons that Irish Sign Language must be recognised by the State as a language of this country, which are as follows: there are 5,000 deaf people...

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I agree with the Minister that this issue should be discussed every week in this House, because it is a crisis. Not only is it a crisis, it is also an emergency, although the Minister has not declared it as such. That is where we find a difference between his approach and that taken on this side of the House. Deputy Boyd Barrett mentioned that he has been losing patience over the past six...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has discussed with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform plans to reinstate school secretaries in primary schools onto his Department's pay base in order that they will be on a pay scale, receive holiday pay and sick payments and be entitled to a pension (details supplied). [54560/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined and the issues raised progressed. [54315/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the process for the tendering of a shop at Our Lady's Children's Hospital (details supplied); and when it went out for tender. [54316/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 667. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled as a matter of urgency. [54321/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [54485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 1666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the issue of persons who transfer from homeless payments to jobseeker's payments after being housed and who do not technically fit the criteria to qualify for fuel allowance will be examined (details supplied). [1778/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (18 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will publish the findings of an audit of staffing levels in cystic fibrosis hospital centres that was undertaken in 2016; and the reason this information has not been published. [2566/18]