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Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will release a detailed timeline of when work will proceed on each of the schools on the new school build programme and provide this information to the boards of management of each of the schools. [15007/12]

Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (21 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 319: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will initiate an audit on a school (details supplied) for the better energy workplace programme as part of the capital funding announced today; the way the school can access the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15710/12]

Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (21 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 337: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider a school (details supplied) in Dublin for the better energy workplace programme as part of the capital funding announced today; the way the school can access the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15709/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (21 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that Sligo County Council has had the highest overall deficit balance of all county and city councils as outlined in its respective annual financial statements for the financial years ending 31 December 2008, 31 December 2009 and 31 December 2010; if it has been...

Written Answers — Regeneration Projects: Regeneration Projects (21 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 349: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of the 2 November 2011, in view of the delay involved in issuing a response to date if he will expedite the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14977/12]

Written Answers — Regeneration Funding: Regeneration Funding (21 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 350: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the expenditure of regeneration funding in 2011 in respect of the eastern quadrant regeneration project in Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14978/12]

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (21 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 351: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that matching funds for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme, the housing aid for older people grant scheme, and the mobility aids grants scheme was provided for in Sligo County Council's budget for 2012; if it has been brought to his...

Written Answers — Garda Vetting of Personnel: Garda Vetting of Personnel (21 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 518: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review a matter in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15792/12]

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: There is also another spectre haunting Europe, and that is a lack of democracy. The right of the people to be consulted through referenda in respect of changes in the Constitution is a very important safeguard to democracy in our State. It is something people in other EU states would like to have, given the lack of democracy in how the EU functions. This right has been fundamentally...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (27 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 13 March 2012, the reason she finds it so hard to get the real figures for fraud into the public domain instead of control savings that this Deputy has pointed out are a minimum expected of any public system that pays out money; if she accepts that control savings and proven fraud are not the...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Take the medicine.

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: It is a poll tax.

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: The Mahon tribunal report is vast, running to more than 3,000 pages. The most telling quote is from the introduction. It refers to how throughout the late 1980s and 1990s corruption in Irish political life was both endemic and systematic. It affected every level of government from some of the holders of top ministerial office to local councillors and its existence was widely known and...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 186: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that Sligo County Council has had the highest overall deficit balance of all county and city councils as outlined in their respective annual financial statements (details supplied); if it has been brought to his attention that the members of Sligo County Council were...

Private Members' Business: Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I am very proud to be part of the introduction of this Bill put forward by the United Left Alliance and Deputy Mick Wallace, the Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012. The Bill is very specific. It is based on the Supreme Court judgment in the X case. The girl was only 14 years of age at the time and is now a woman, somewhere in...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I propose to share time with Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan, Clare Daly and Mattie McGrath.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: I was somewhat surprised by the Minister's opening contribution in the Chamber this evening when she announced her intention to implement the cut reducing to seven years the age limit for the lone parent allowance but stated she recognises that seven is too young to be left without a backup in respect of adequate child care. It is too young for a parent to make the first steps back to the...

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is correct to state that the some or all of the Irish banks were deemed insolvent at or prior to the recapitalisation of those banks; and if so, is it the case that some or all of the recapitalised banks were trading while insolvent. [19111/12]

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance the actions that are or have been taken with respect to the recapitalised banks and the personnel involved that were trading while insolvent and were in breach of the statutory obligations under company law [19112/12]

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Finance as some or all of the recapitalised banks were clearly trading and in the process of advancing loans and mortgages while in fact insolvent, the way such advances and loans can be legal, lawful and binding on those to whom such moneys were given by financial institutions that were at the time acting in breach of the licence conditions governing...