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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a proposal by a group, details supplied, will be supported as a pilot scheme; if the land will be taken out of Dublin City Council's land initiative proposal; and if funds from capital expenditure in budget 2019 will be provided. [27060/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: I ask the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a proposal by the St. Michael's regeneration group will be supported as a pilot scheme, if the land will be taken out of Dublin City Council’s land initiative proposal, and if funds from capital expenditure in budget 2019 will be provided.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: I am glad to see that there is some progress on this. What is the Minister's thinking on this? The council has to make a key decision on this site, with the community. The regeneration team is looking for 300 houses to be built on the site as a practical reality from a sustainability point of view - 150 local authority houses and 150 on the cost rental model. They have to be taken out of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the reliance on for profit private developers to supply social and cost rental models of housing and so on will not deal with the housing emergency now or into the future and that a rights based housing programme, such as that in Finland, should be the model that he pursues in view of the recent visit and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the right to housing must be inserted into the Constitution as a sign of intent to tackle the housing crisis into the future in view of the recent visit and comments of the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Leilani Farha. [26609/18]

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: I support the motion. I thank Fianna Fáil for tabling it. I support it because of the men and women here tonight and their colleagues throughout the fire service and the ambulance service. I am here tonight to state that intention about the motion. I accept the motion and I will talk to the firefighters between now and any vote taking place on Thursday in order to discover what they...

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to initiate the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017, which the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection facilitated on 31 May 2018 (details supplied). [26529/18]

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: This is to ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to progress the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017, which the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection facilitated on 31 May 2018 at the request of the Department. The heads of the Bill were brought in on 9 May, including defined benefit, DB, protection to...

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: Over a year is rather a long time to check that all the t's have been crossed and the i's have been dotted. I know it is important legislation. Thousands of workers are waiting for it to come through for some protection. Irish Life workers in a scheme that is healthy are potentially affected by their defined benefit scheme being wound down. There is also Ryanair and Independent News and...

Other Questions: Legislative Measures (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: With all due respect, there are no persons more eager for these amendments to come through than the workers themselves whose pensions are being attacked in healthy funds by companies that can well afford to keep defined benefit pensions going. It is a money grab by many of these companies. The Minister is awaiting the amendments. When it was published on 6 July, the Bill did not include any...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Programme (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will bring forward the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017, which was due to be considered by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection on 31 May 2018. [26530/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Board (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Comptroller and Auditor General signed off on the Citizen Information Board's accounts for 2017; and if so, when (details supplied). [26531/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE's weekly review of children waiting longer than four months for scoliosis surgery takes place; the format the review takes; the way in which the resulting decisions are documented and recorded; and the persons who carry out the weekly review. [26484/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 362. To ask the Minister for Health the wait times for young adults of 16 to 21 years of age in need of scoliosis care to see a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Mater Hospital when referred by a general practitioner. [26499/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken to address the outpatient waiting lists for children who are waiting up to 36 months for an appointment. [26500/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Services Outsourcing (19 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been no activity regarding outsourcing to other hospitals since 2017 in view of the fact that over 84 children are waiting over four month targets; and the reason there is no letter or information sent to parents to inform them regarding outsourcing (details supplied). [26504/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (14 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the long-term plan for Sundrive Garda station, Dublin 12. [26022/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the location in which persons can access the 2018 waiting list action plan for scoliosis; and when it will be publicised [26005/18]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: I support the motion tabled by People Before Profit, acknowledging that it highlights a specific aspect of the empty homes and sites and seeks strategically to place teams in each local authority as a national approach to bringing these empty homes into local authority housing schemes. Fundamentals must be dealt with in this housing crisis and emergency. The Government needs to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Multidenominational Schools (12 Jun 2018)

Joan Collins: 376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the absence of a co-educational, multidenominational, non-fee paying secondary school in the Dublin 8 and 12 catchment areas, these areas will be included in the Dublin 6, 6W and Clonskeagh catchment areas (details supplied). [24883/18]