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Other Questions: Housing Regeneration (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: What the regeneration team is putting forward is a proposal for 300 units, with a mixture of one, two and three-bedroom units, which would cost in the region of €56 million, and it is looking for this to come out of capital expenditure for next year. I believe this project would be a very good way of seeing how the cost-rental model works. The daft.iefigures show that rents have gone...

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the Rural Independent Group for moving this Private Members' motion. It was obvious from the start that Deputy Harty was the main driver behind the medical aspect of it given his role in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health. We have dysfunctional crisis-ridden health service which is simply not fit for purpose. We are an exception in Europe in that we never moved to a modern...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he plans to amend the reporting of homeless figures from monthly to quarterly; and if he will clarify his announcement that the homeless figures are 500 to 600 less than the official reports. [19782/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a public health centre has no funding to provide extra home care hours for a person (details supplied); and the reason it has no funding for home care hours for other families. [19778/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in each of the years since 2008 to analyse smear tests; the number of smear tests it analysed in each year; and if he will provide the same information in respect of clinical pathology laboratories and other laboratories here or overseas for the years in which they had a contract to analyse smear tests. [20165/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Progression plans are the issue in respect of which I have received most contact from people. They say that they would not sign progression plans and their social protection payments were cut. Was there a recent High Court case in which that was found to be illegal? What is the Department's position on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I accept the point that the person did not get leave from the High Court. As far as I am aware, the Department admitted that it was illegally sanctioning people who refused to sign a contract with a private company.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: On Turas Nua and Seetec, another issue which people have specifically brought up with me is that they were being offered jobs that were not associated with what they were doing, what they were interested in or the areas they wanted to go into and that, at times, they were forced into areas such as elderly and home care, in which there is obviously a huge lack of staff as a result of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I have one last question which, again, is addressed to the two service providers. Has either organisation ever asked somebody to pay for a training course when moving onto an employment scheme which it has recommended?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Therefore, people are never asked to put money up upfront, for example, €700 for an elderly care course or something like it.

Other Questions: Hare Coursing Regulation (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: It is horrendous.

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: On 18 April, up to 50 people representing the diabetes community presented a petition with 18,000 signatures demanding access for all to new life-changing flash glucose monitoring technology that affects 20,000 people with type 1 diabetes. The petition highlighted the fact that from 3 April 2018 the HSE has made FreeStyle Libre available to children and young adults with type 1 diabetes aged...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I repeat that. The Minister of State has not really answered the question. Why was it restricted to those aged four to 21 years? It seems there is discrimination here. It is a question of monitoring over a 12-month period. Surely, all patients should have been provided with the device for the purposes of the 12-month review. This does not make any sense and the Minister of State should...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Can the information on the exceptional circumstances be circulated to all of us?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if contracts were renewed annually with a company (details supplied) from 2008; if he will provide the quality assurance certificate, that is, the screening process and laboratory performance expectation with each contract; and if he will provide the same information on the clinical pathology laboratory and other laboratories here or overseas for the years...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 178. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the number of times cervical screening programmes were reviewed since 2008; and his views on whether it is best practice to continually review performance to demonstrate an ability to reflect on current practice and improve patient care. [20302/18]

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Joan Collins: Yesterday a constituent came to my office and told me she went for a smear test appointment with her GP who is offering free smear tests, which is good. When she asked where the test was going to be sent to, however, she was informed it would be sent to the US. She did not want it to be sent to the US and asked for it to be done in an Irish lab instead. She was subsequently informed that...

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Joan Collins: If I send the details to the Taoiseach, will he get the Minister for Health to check it out?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (15 May 2018)

Joan Collins: 594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are a lot of new houses being advertised on property-for-sale websites (details supplied) with no given price just a Price on Application, POA; his views on whether developers are using this method to determine the level of interest in their properties and then in turn...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I do not support the Fianna Fáil motion because of the points made by other Deputies. It recalls the launch of the St. Michael's Estate public housing on public land initiative last Thursday week. At that time, when pressed by Vincent Browne on whether he supports public housing on public land at St. Michael's Estate, Deputy Darragh O'Brien replied "Yes" and he also said that a Fianna...