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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: They could be sold on.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: The section reflects the quagmire the Government is in as it tries to get the legislation through. As local authorities anticipate the collection of commercial rates from semi-State bodies and other companies, the Minister has introduced an amendment to ensure Irish Water will not be rateable from the point of view of its assets. He said the Local Government Fund would address the funding...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: Like other Members on this side of the House have mentioned, this amendment arose because of the pressure we put on in the Chamber last week with regard to the use of “may” and “shall” which exposed what the Minister had originally put down but defended, like a dog with a bone, until now. Water is a human right. One cannot live without water for a very short...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: It would be difficult but one could survive without gas or electricity. The principle is that water is a human right.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: We are paying for it. This idea peddled that we have not paid for it is wrong because we have paid for it for decades through motor tax and VAT.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: Excuse me, Deputy, I have always paid my taxes. I worked in the Post Office and I have no problem paying my taxes.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: We should start with the premise that water is a human right. Then one must ask how does one protect that. Vulture capitalists and multinationals see water as the new oil. As a nation, we need to examine how we put in the strongest protections to keep our water services in the public domain. The only way we can do that - a point known by the many thousands on the streets - is through a...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: The cheap seats?

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Daly for bringing the Bill before the House. I have no doubt the Bill will be voted down; that is the predetermined position. The issue will not go away, as the Minister of State knows, unless people in government realise that denying people choice is not good enough any more. Crisis pregnancies are a reality. Every year 4,000 or 5,000 women travel, and that has been...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Functions (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: 247. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under section 134 of the Local Government Act 2001 as amended by section 49 of the Local Government Act 2014, in an election year, the local authority corporate plan must be prepared and brought before the council for consideration within six months of the annual general...

Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: I too wish everyone working in the Houses of the Oireachtas a peaceful festive break. We can all go home, close our doors and have a nice Christmas dinner. Last week the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, introduced a housing strategy commitment that people living on the street would be given secure accommodation before 25 December. I asked...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare Expenditure (14 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: 290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the application made by friends of seal rescue Ireland for funding made under the animal welfare scheme; when will seal rescue Ireland be made aware of funding to keep this important facility for injured marine wildlife open. [49666/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm of the 79 patients waiting more than nine months for various procedures including spinal assessment, cast change, full spinal surgery, insertion of growing rods and lengthening of growing rods, the number who have undergone their procedures; and the number of the 103 patients waiting more than six months who have had their procedures....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: 564. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 31 patients who had planned dates, as of 20 November 2014, for procedures including spinal assessment, cast change, full spinal surgery, insertion of growing and lengthening rods, who have had their procedures. [49646/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: 565. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal cases, that is, scoliosis it has been agreed to carry out in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin 12 as part of its service level agreement for 2015; and if the agreed SLA include patients waiting more than nine and six months as of 20 November 2014. [49647/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Funding (14 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: 893. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding historic funding to local authorities for water services; the amount of money that was allocated to local authorities from 2001 to 2013 annually; the way this money was sourced; and the way it was it allocated to local authorities. [49667/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Legislation (15 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: I am requesting a deferral of that Topical Issue matter to Tuesday, 20 January 2015, as the Minister and both Ministers of State are not available to take the matter today. I wish to put on the record the fact that quite frequently Ministers are not turning up or cannot turn up. The idea of Topical Issue matters is that such matters can be taken up with the relevant Ministers. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Investigation (15 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: 8. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is including the historical case of persons (details supplied) in the terms of reference for the commission of investigation into the Guerin report. [1369/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Investigation (15 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: 14. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the cases included in the Commission of Investigation and the procedure to add cases into the investigation into the Guerin report. [1368/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (20 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: This Topical Issue debate was supposed to take place last Thursday. In the past month, I have been continually in touch with the homeless services checking whether the night café proposed in the Focus talks on 9 December had been implemented. Up to today, the café has been open until 10.30 p.m. and today I heard that, from tomorrow, it will open 24 hours including over the...