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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: 628. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for Tallaght hospital spinal services has been rectified (details supplied); if the position of the spinal surgeon has been addressed; the number of patients awaiting appointments for spinal services in Tallaght hospital; and the number of patients who have had appointments in the past six months. [54314/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: After it was leaked to the newspapers and "Morning Ireland".

Other Questions: Proposed Legislation (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if he will legislate for access to a termination of pregnancy here when a woman is diagnosed with a fatal foetal abnormality [54012/13]

Other Questions: Proposed Legislation (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: When a woman finds herself pregnant, it can be a joyous and wonderful occasion. On the other hand, it can be sad and a bad situation for a woman or a couple, particularly those who find early in the pregnancy that their child has a fatal foetal abnormality. It is a dark place as we know from the stories couples and women affected told to us and the Minister. When the Minister met with them...

Other Questions: Proposed Legislation (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: -----the Minister to introduce legislation to address this area.

Other Questions: Proposed Legislation (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: It is not acceptable that we are still sending women in this situation to other countries to terminate a fatal foetal abnormality. We know that these women are going to Europe to challenge this, because they feel that as the foetus cannot live outside the womb, it is not covered under the legislation to which the Minister refers. I do not think we should wait for Europe to tell us again to...

Other Questions: Proposed Legislation (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: I think it was the UN that issued a direction to Ireland to deal with the A, B, C and D cases. The D case certainly highlighted that we have to deal with the issue of fatal foetal abnormalities. Women have to go to court in Europe to deal with these health issues. They are not just about terminations; they are health issues for women. That is not acceptable. These women have approached...

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise the Government's A Strategy for Growth document in which I found only two sentences relating to the issue of the retrospective recapitalisation of banks. The document is 66 pages long but there are only two sentences on page 26 relating to this crucial issue, which read as follows:...the Eurogroup has agreed that retroactive recapitalisation may be agreed on a case-by-case...

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach started off by saying the document was a major signpost to economic recovery over six years. Two sentences refer to the recapitalisation of the banks. It is said it “may” be decided on a case by case basis. The issue is not high on the agenda, but it should have been at the forefront of the document that we demanded a write-down of the debt, on which everything...

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach has thrown in the towel. He has played footsie with the European Union; he should play hard ball.

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: We bailed them out.

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: It is natural, and should be the case, that many Deputies look back over the experience they gained, and what they saw and what happened, over the past number of years when they were members of local authorities. I was elected in 2004. It was the end of the development process for the 2005-11 development plan for Dublin City Council, a process with which I was not familiar. It was alien...

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: It was not even that I was anti-development but that the developers and property had rights. They had the rights; we did not. The people had no rights. That is where we must look at how we put in place such plans, into which developers must link-in along with all the compliances and checks, some of which have been raised here. There are simple matters. For instance, if a planning...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: 40. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to either ensure an operation takes place with immediate effect or ensure regular scans take place to monitor the possible growth of the colloid cyst in respect of a person (details supplied). [53986/13]

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise the issue of the latest cut to affect people with disabilities. Without any prior warning, a circular issued on new year's eve from a Labour Party Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government announced cuts in the housing adaptation and mobility aid grants with immediate effect for all new applicants. These changes in the income...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: That was a classic case of talking down the clock.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: Since 2010, the €100 million in grant allocations for people with disabilities was reduced to €35 million last year. There are big waiting lists. This is a cut. The criteria being tightened represents a further cut. No one applies for a disability grant if he or she does not need it. Everything is assessed through the HSE. Amnesty International has stated that any cut in...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: Some €10,000 to €8,000.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: It was €100 million in 2010.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)

Joan Collins: That is a disgraceful response.