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Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: This issue must be examined in a thorough and joined-up way. The EPA, RSA, HSA, Garda, local authorities and unions are all separate entities. Will the Minister give serious consideration to setting up a task force, perhaps comprising members of the environment committee and with an independent chair, to examine the whole industry? There are Sopranos-style operations going on here.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. On Monday, NERA said it could take up some of the issues but not all of them. That is why I raise the need for an overall review of the waste industry. It is highly unregulated. It is almost a snake pit from the point of view of how workers are treated. Some 70 workers were told on 17 June that unless they signed a contract reducing their wages by 30%, they should...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: That is a joke.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: I received information that a second worker was run over by a car as it was leaving the Greyhound recycling site in Crag Avenue last night in a hit and run incident.

Public Health (Standard Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: For years, the tobacco industry tried to hide the fact but all the medical evidence shows that smoking kills. While the odd smoker may be lucky enough to reach the age of 80 or 90 years, smokers generally do not live to old age. The tobacco industry is one of the most invidious industries in the world. It has been able to buy off governments, organisations and politicians across the globe...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: I raise a very serious issue raised by community groups across the board regarding the privatisation of what is left of the local and community development programme, LCDP. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, has begun the process of tendering in the private sector for the provision of community development services to be sold in 31 lots for...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: The consultation process did not involve the people in the community partnerships who will be affected or the people working in the National Traveller Partnership but at a different level. The Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, made no attempt to listen to the workers' concerns about their jobs and futures and the future of the local development companies. The Taoiseach did not answer the...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: It is privatisation of community centres.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: Will the Taoiseach hear what they have to say?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Traveller Community (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will meet the National Traveller Partnership as soon as possible (details supplied). [29775/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme (8 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 817. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff currently employed by the rural transport programme who will be made redundant due to the restructuring of the programme into the 18 transport co-ordination units; and the redundancy package that is being offered. [29497/14]

Free Travel Pass: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, Stephen Donnelly, Mick Wallace and Finian McGrath. When we heard that there was to be a review of the travel pass scheme for those over 66 years, we, Age Action Ireland and many organisations representing our elderly, went quite rightly on the offensive. We have seen the record of the Government on other services which have been cut....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Garda Investigations (9 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 486. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will confirm that after the Health Information Quality Authority exposed foster care abuses into the Dublin north-west foster services in 2013, all the cases were forwarded to the Garda for investigation. [30321/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (10 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of over 70s medical card holders who have received letters regarding a review of their cards; the number of single over 70s medical card holders who have lost their card; the number of couples in receipt of the over 70s medical card who have lost their cards; and if she will provide a tabular breakdown of the number who have lost the card because...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (15 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of extra places for education and training, child care places for over sevens and job placement since 2011 and 4 July 2014 directed towards parents on lone parent family payments. [30737/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (15 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 399. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if paid work is seen as a route out of poverty; the reason lone parents are now financially penalised if they are in part-time work (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31514/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (15 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 530. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the detailed project appraisal including details of viability, full renovation costs and updated drawing which his Department sought from the local authority in Sligo in 2013 for the proposed refurbishment of the Gate Lodge at Doorly Park, County Sligo, in order to allow it to be used as a resource...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (15 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 531. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department when launching the public area enhancement scheme indicated that works undertaken with funding from the scheme should be additional to work already planned; the level of funding provided by his Department for the scheme in County Sligo; if his attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Harbours and Piers Maintenance (15 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 532. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council will carry out dredging at the channel to Sligo harbour; that an application from Sligo County Council for a licence under the Foreshore Act to undertake the dredging works at the harbour was submitted to his Department on 28 February 2013; when his...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: 598. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to tackle child pornography exclusively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31558/14]