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Organ Donation: Motion (21 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I am thankful for my having been allowed time to speak today because I am not a member of the Joint Committee on Health and Children and, therefore, was not involved directly with the discussions and debate. However, I have been keeping an eye on the debate because it is of particular interest to me. The Minister made a point in his contribution that it is sometimes hard to grasp the...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: The Irish Mortgage Holders Association recently raised the fact that a number of gardaí find themselves in a difficult situation concerning their mortgages. They have had to seek support or face possible bankruptcy. Is amended legislation needed concerning the Garda Síochána's code of work practice or contracts to protect gardaí in this respect? As far as I know, they...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: My point is that gardaí could lose their jobs.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I welcome the postmasters who are present in the Gallery. I congratulate them on their level of organisation and I wish them well in their protest at 7 p.m. tomorrow outside the gates of Leinster House. The Communications Workers Union, CWU, supports the protest and has written to all its members and asked them to attend. It, therefore, will be a large protest and will also include people...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I am aware that there is much goodwill among postmasters in the context of recognising CWU members in their post offices. The programme for Government contains a commitment to maintain the post office network as a result of the role it plays socially and economically. We want the Minister to indicate that this commitment will be adhered to. His announcement to the effect that no post...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 418. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the current staffing levels in the Castle Street community welfare office (details supplied). [9607/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 522. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 413 of 11 February 2014 if he will confirm the gender breakdown of those arrested and charged under the operation. [9248/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 562. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will deliver all the entitlements and benefits of the restorative justice called for by Mr. Justice Quirke, that is, pensions and health care benefits. [9698/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 564. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the dedicated unit and helpline for the survivors of the Magdalen laundries, as recommended by Mr. Justice Quirke, have not been set up to assist those survivors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9667/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 687. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the statement-letter issued in 2012 when the campaign for independent living campaigned overnight to stop cuts in their personal assistant hours. [9381/14]

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I also to want to refer to the controversy regarding penalty points, surveillance of GSOC and the treatment of the Garda whistleblowers, Sergeant McCabe and former Garda John Wilson. In referring to it, it is quite clear that Mr. Shatter does not do apologies.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: It is quite clear that an investigation into an investigation is going to continue. However, what is also very clear is that there is an aggressive reluctance by senior gardaí to accept any form of meaningful accountability over what Garda Commissioner Callinan refers to as his force. This is the nub of the matter. It is also clear that the Minister, Deputy Shatter, has backed senior...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I do not know where the Taoiseach has been for the past period of time but even GSOC has said that it does not have the powers that are needed to investigate independently matters. There has been and will continue to be a culture regarding this issue unless fundamental legislation is introduced to separate the powers of the State and the powers of a body doing its job. We have seen the Fr....

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: It is disgusting.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding funding for young athletes representing their country in major international events; if there are grants to support children to attend these events and appeals for sponsor; and his views on whether when a young person is selected to represent their country in major international events the State pay all or a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role and Potential of Community and Vocational Education: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I have only one or two questions and I will not be too long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role and Potential of Community and Vocational Education: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses. It is interesting to hear from all the groups that are involved in the community sector looking at the changes that have occurred over the past five years. My question is a follow-up on the SOLAS plan. How does that plan work? Do employers or potential employers in technology and all the different areas come to SOLAS stating what they envisage over the next period...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Sex Abuse Victims (27 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 14. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the remedies that are available to victims of child sex abuse who believe that they were left unprotected by the actions of their solicitors; the legislative changes he plans to implement to hold the legal profession to account in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9715/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (27 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will carry out an investigation into strong evidence that News International's Dublin offices were used as a hacking and phone blagging centre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. [9716/14]

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach one of the most immediate and pressing issues that has developed in the past six months, that is, on top of the already critical homelessness problem, the new phenomenon of young families finding themselves homeless owing to a number of factors. A family of two adults and two children who have been in touch with us are living in Bewleys Hotel since November...