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Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Bond Issues (8 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is no net benefit to the Exchequer if the Central Bank of Ireland disposes into the sovereign bond market the €25 billion of bonds created in February 2013 for the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and the €3 billion in bonds created in 2012; if he will fund the payment of the IBRC promissory note redemption,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Bond Issues (8 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the ongoing legal challenge to the lawfulness of the promissory notes used to capitalise the former Anglo Irish Bank, the Irish Nationwide Building Society and the Educational Building Society the risks of the Central Bank of Ireland disposing, in advance of the conclusion of this court case, of the €25 billion in bonds created in February...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Bond Issues (8 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he and his Department has had with the Central Bank of Ireland regarding the disposal and in particular, the accelerated disposal, of the €25 billion in bonds created in February 2013 for the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and the €3 billion in bonds created in 2012 to fund the payment of the IBRC...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (8 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 110. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland voting to increase the retention fee for 2015 from €100 to €150 (details supplied), if he is prepared for a crisis in staffing levels in the Health Service Executive in 2015 [38342/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Expenditure (8 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure Ireland meets its stated commitment of allocation 0.7% of GNI to overseas aid. [38532/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Data Protection (8 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason Irish citizens must entrust their personal data to Irish Water (details supplied); the reason citizens of this State should commit their personal data to an organisation with no independently verified information security system. [38345/14]

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: I want to raise the protests against the installation of water meters which are taking place in big estates across the city and country. I want to state that contrary to what the Taoiseach said when I raised this issue last week, it is not the case that these protests are being organised by outsiders. It is not a case of the usual suspects to whom the Taoiseach referred. These protests are...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: One resident was taken to hospital yesterday with an ankle injury. Twenty-six gardaí were taken from stations across Dublin to get involved in what was happening in Clare Hall. The focus has switched today to St. Donagh's Road in Donaghmede, where over 100 residents have come out to protest. There is a large Garda presence and two arrests have been made. Is this not a strange use of...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: The Tánaiste did not answer my question.

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: It has been a habit of those on the Government benches. The Tánaiste repeated what has been said on a number of occasions in the Dáil this week. I put it to her that people are coming out of their houses in extraordinary numbers. I have never seen a spontaneous reaction like it in my life. Irish Water came into Crumlin each morning for 15 days. The residents came out of their...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: The same thing happened in Drimnagh over a five-day period. As these men get paid regardless of whether the water meters are installed, the argument used by the Tánaiste is absolutely false. She is trying to throw the issue in another way by raising dust in people's eyes. Ordinary people - women, children and men who are absolutely opposed to the installation of water meters - are...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: The Tánaiste should be there too.

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: They have been left with the debt of bankers and bondholders.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: The Construction Contracts Act 2013 was signed into law on 29 July 2013 but still awaits enactment. Can the Tánaiste provide a date on which it will commence?

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: Most people will be relieved that none of the savage austerity cuts of the past seven budgets is in this budget. However, nobody should be under any illusion that austerity has ended. The Government is making a big deal of the fact that a €1.2 billion increase in services and tax cuts is contained in the budget. More than €30 billion has been taken out of the economy,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 20. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the new community welfare office will be in place to service the Crumlin-Drimnagh-Walkinstown area (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and the location of same. [38990/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the staffing levels that will be in place if and when a new community welfare office opens in Crumlin, Dublin 12 (details supplied). [39002/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Chemical Markers (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance the tonnage of toxic chemical marker that has been added to the fuel supply which when burned can be released into the environment. [39020/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hip replacement operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [39193/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (14 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding resources to set up a direct helpline to assist women accessing a midwife (details supplied). [39200/14]