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Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, everybody else got over a minute and a half or two minutes extra time on this.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I am 47 seconds over time.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I wanted to make the point about mandatory open disclosure. Deputies Clare Daly and Wallace last year brought an amendment to the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 for mandatory open disclosure. It was rejected-----

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: -----and Fianna Fáil abstained.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: That mandatory disclosure could have been in place at present and it could have affected those cases where women had the right to that disclosure. Would the Minister please bring in the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill immediately, not six months down the line?

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I honestly believe this is not merely a communication failure. It is a service and resource failure. Mr. Tony O'Brien, in 2008, stated, "At the time there was not sufficient capacity of that type in Ireland." It was not resourced and they had to go abroad to private companies overseas. That is a fundamental issue in our screening. I would like to get the facts. The Taoiseach correctly...

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Today is 1 May, International Workers' Day. I presume the Taoiseach is wearing his red socks in recognition of it. Workers today are still struggling to get decent pay and conditions. A recent report by Think-tank for Action on Social Change, TASC, shows increasing growth in precarious employment. Precarious employment does not just condemn workers to low pay, which now affects one in...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: These are the issues I raised this morning about outsourcing of the smear testing. We know that in 2008, a total of 300,000 Irish smear tests were sent over to the US firm Quest Diagnostics, and two years later clinical pathology laboratories based in Austin, Texas took over the National Cancer Screening Service. These are for-profit companies. There was a political furore about it at the...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: If in the review it is found out that this outsourcing was the potentially the cause of the cases not being properly checked, and we know that Vicky Phelan won an award of €2.5 million from a US based laboratory, will the Minister demand answers of the people of the day who made those decisions?

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I wish to commend Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, her team, Fr. Cullen and PREDA on putting together this Bill. The Bill seeks to regulate and restrict, where appropriate, sex offenders from travelling abroad in the interests of the common good and to protect vulnerable persons from serious harm outside Ireland where sex trafficking and child prostitution may be prevalent. The Act seeks to amend...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied) raised in correspondence. [18641/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 220. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person is referred to the NTPF scheme; if it is the doctor or consultant who refers the person; the length of time they must be on the waiting list before being referred; and the type of health issues that are referred to the NTPF. [18593/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 221. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have an operation; and if they can be referred to the NTPF scheme. [18596/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 256. To ask the Minister for Health when a primary care unit proposed and agreed in Curlew Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12 will be cleared by the HSE for funding to commence its build. [18768/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for their introductory contributions. I read the reports before the meeting. What I hear is that people in the disabilities sector have felt the brunt of austerity over the last number of years. I have had the privilege of meeting people like Dermot Walsh. I do not know whether the witnesses remember him. He lived in my constituency and was down knocking on the door...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for their introductory contributions. I read the reports before the meeting. What I hear is that people in the disabilities sector have felt the brunt of austerity over the last number of years. I have had the privilege of meeting people like Dermot Walsh. I do not know whether the witnesses remember him. He lived in my constituency and was down knocking on the door...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (3 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for their introductory contributions. I read the reports before the meeting. What I hear is that people in the disabilities sector have felt the brunt of austerity over the last number of years. I have had the privilege of meeting people like Dermot Walsh. I do not know whether the witnesses remember him. He lived in my constituency and was down knocking on the door...

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to support a regeneration team (details supplied) to utilise public lands at a location for 300 social and public housing units; and if this model will be used as a pilot scheme with a view to extending it to all public lands. [19794/18]

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: On 26 April St. Michael's regeneration team in Inchicore launched "Our Community: A Better Way". I ask the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to support a regeneration team to utilise public lands at a location for 300 social and public housing units - not affordable units. Will this model be used as a pilot scheme with a view to extending it to all public lands?

Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: St. Michael's Estate can be a practical scheme in the context of the cost-rental model and building public housing on public lands. It will be up to the city council and it has already discussed that there should be a pilot scheme on this site. It is an amazing proposal that the regeneration team is putting forward and I believe the Minister should take it on board. Although I know the...