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Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (7 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 321: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households who have registered for the €100 household charge to date in 2012 under the following headings (details supplied) and broken down by local authority areas in tabular form. [6476/12]

Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: I am glad to have the opportunity to support the Sinn Féin motion. It is a signal to the Government that any more cuts to CE schemes will have a huge impact on the communities where the schemes operate and on the schemes themselves. There should be an immediate reversal of the 66% cuts to the 2011 levels of the training and materials budget. This is one of the cruellest and meanest of the...

Written Answers — Smarter Travel Project: Smarter Travel Project (14 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 759: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the areas that won the competition for the smarter travel project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8247/12]

Drug Treatment Programme (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Deputies Ó Snodaigh, Conaghan and I attended a meeting in Ballyfermot last Thursday night arranged by service providers and clients of the Aisling Clinic. Those present were confused, angry, concerned, anxious and stressed by the decision to close the centre by the end of March. It appears a follow up plan has not been put in place for after the closure. Some service users will be asked...

Drug Treatment Programme (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: I have taken on board the points made by the Minister. A group has been set up comprising existing clinic personnel. I note there is no service user in that group to discuss how it impacts on service users or any change in the seamless transition. I make the same appeal as Deputy Ó Snodaigh. A number of people use the service in Ballyfermot and the local area office is located there....

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: It is no surprise that I cannot support this Bill. If proof were needed that the cost of paying for the banking system's economic collapse has been unfairly loaded onto the backs of those who can least afford it, it is to be found in the income tax Estimates for 2011 compared to 2010, which were released by the Revenue Commissioners last week. The figures are incredible. Those earning...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: It is reality.

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: How about taxing the wealthy?

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: I always listen to the public.

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (15 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the setting aside of the decision to close St. Brigid's nursing home, Crooksling, pending a review, whose terms of reference have yet to be published, although Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, has been instructed not to refer patients there. [8492/12]

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Here we go.

Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: In his opening remarks, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, said this jobs plan marked a new approach. I wish it did because job creation is key to the country getting out of the economic quagmire it is in due to its over-reliance on the construction industry while not concentrating on indigenous job creation over the past ten years. There is nothing new in this...

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport in view of the distribution of €23 million from the Smarter travel fund to Limerick, Dungarvan and Westport, if he will report on the way the decision was made to award funding to these areas; and the criteria the short-listed proposals, including Drimnagh, Dublin, would need to meet to achieve this funding and is there...

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State is right to say there was a great deal of support and community activity around the bid for smarter travel. People in Drimnagh and in the other areas were led to believe the competition list had been reduced first to 11, then to four, two of which were in Dublin, Drimnagh and either Sandyford or Sandymount - I cannot remember which - and two outside Dublin. When the...

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Another went to Limerick, where the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, is based and there was Dungarvan which is-----

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: -----the ground of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, the Minister of State, Deputy Paul Kehoe, and others. There is a question mark. The communities asked me to raise this matter in the Dáil. Will the Minister of State give a breakdown of the bids from each area and on what they were based? He mentioned that the Galway bid concerned a project that was too big...

Public Transport (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: We understood this €50 million was to come from the EU, not from our own finances. However, the Minister of State stated that was the reason for the reduction to €23 million. We would very much welcome this in Drimnagh where many parts, including the junctions, roads and pathways, need to be upgraded significantly. It would give tremendous support to the people of Drimnagh who, as the...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health if he will, as a matter of urgency, restore the mammography services to Sligo General Hospital in order to alleviate the stress on patients travelling to University Hospital Galway and to alleviate the stress on services at UHG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8917/12]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (16 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding a resource centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8933/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (21 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the status of the Residential Institutions Statutory fund of €110 million; if he will confirm the purpose of the fund and the persons who may access it; and the criteria there will be for survivors to access the fund. [9238/12]