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Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: We know what the needs are. Some 90,000 families are on the waiting list nationally. In Dublin alone, there are 16,100 families on it. This amounts to approximately 170,000 individuals, which the population of Wexford and Leitrim combined. This is not a question of having discussions or waiting for a month or three weeks to have a meeting. The problem needs to be addressed now; we know...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: They have been thrown out of their homes.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: On the local authority waiting list.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach is in power now.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 267. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the old metal water cover lids and brackets that are being replaced with the new plastic covers in the course of water metering; the number of these covers that are being replaced; the person responsible for their disposal; where are they being disposed of; and the person that receives the proceeds if there...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 405. To ask the Minister for Health the annual wages of the chief executive officer of Cheeverstown as a section 38 voluntary service. [10426/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 490. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neck and face post-cancer patients who are awaiting dental care for three months, six months and 12 months (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10905/14]

Protection of Residential Mortgage Account Holders Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I support this Bill. It is an outrage that this Government, which includes the Labour Party, is allowing vulture capitalists to buy up these mortgages at knock-down prices while the 13,246 mortgage holders will be asked to pay full whack and could face huge increases in interest charges. The fact that almost 50% of these mortgages are in arrears will also be a huge concern to these mortgage...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: One hundred and sixty six elected representatives have spent a week on the so-called review of the programme for Government. To my mind, it is a waste of time and a pre-election stunt by the Government to put its wares out in the run-up to local and European elections on 23 May. It reminds me of a pantomime with one side shouting, “Oh yes we did” while the other shouts,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (6 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 258. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any public hospital or clinic here providing specialist neurophysiotherapy for patients with functional neurological symptoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11397/14]

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I have a number of issues I would like to raise with the Tánaiste but I will concentrate on media reports last week about returns by Apple Sales International which is the Irish subsidiary of Apple based in Cork. While Apple Sales International is an unlimited company in Ireland and is not obliged to make annual returns to the Companies Office, it is obliged to make returns in...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: Whoever wrote the Tánaiste's reply seems to have lost the plot halfway through. The fact of the matter is that Apple Sales International's returns in Australia show that it was able to cut its tax bill by availing of lower rates of tax on income, which was a reference to the 12.5% tax on corporate profits in Ireland. Something does not add up here. The Tánaiste cannot on the one...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: Yes, Apple representatives should come before the finance committee.

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: A Cheann Comhairle, I have been accused of not having my tax affairs in order.

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: There is nothing wrong with our tax affairs. I refute that remark and the Deputy should not be able to say it across the floor of the Dáil.

Topical Issues Debate: Job Protection (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I received an e-mail last week from some of the Elverys Sports workers, as I assume did other Members. I was aware of reports in recent weeks that the company was going into examinership, with the likely outcome being a management buy-out. The general view among workers is that such an outcome would be best for them in terms of contracts, wages and conditions. In that context, it is...

Topical Issues Debate: Job Protection (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: It seems that a profitable company, with the backing of its directors, went to NAMA to discuss a management buy-out. It appears that as a result of difficulties experienced after that time, it was not possible for the company to exercise that buy-out. There is something wrong with that process, to my mind. Why would a profitable company not be able to complete such a buy-out? I want...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: Five minutes is a rather short time to make an intervention on-----

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: If you had not interrupted me I could have said more.

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: This crisis has been brewing for some time. There was a housing crisis throughout the years of the property boom, a crisis of affordable housing. Young people and young couples seeking to start a family were priced out of the housing market by the greed of developers and bankers. Hand-in-hand we had policies coming through local authorities referring to pathways to a home and that every...