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Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: I support the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015, though I did have initial reservations regarding the structural segregation of alcohol, particularly where smaller retail outlets are concerned. That has been addressed following the pressure applied by the retail industry. I support the Bill as a public health initiative. Though the Bill will not solve the cultural love affair that we have...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: I support the Bill introduced by Deputy Bríd Smith. It is short and concise and proposes to amend the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960 by prohibiting the issuing of licences for exploration for fossil fuels. The Bill recognises and legislates for the scientific reality that we must stop seeking more carbon based energy. It is also fully in line with Ireland's climate...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation (7 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if an amendment will be accepted (details supplied). [6195/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Correspondence (7 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 207. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to a request from an organisation (details supplied). [6251/18]

Centenary of Women's Suffrage: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: After many decades of constitutional lobbying by the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association, some women grew frustrated with the slow progress. Influenced by the militant strategies of the British Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU, two women, Hannah Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins set up a new suffrage group in Dublin in 1908, the Irish Women's Franchise...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (31 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a request to repatriate a person (details supplied). [4956/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department will meet the representatives of a school (details supplied). [3982/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe to end the pay inequality for teachers; and his views on whether his position is contrary to the principle of equal pay for equal work. [4379/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (30 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 403. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied). [4189/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (18 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will publish the findings of an audit of staffing levels in cystic fibrosis hospital centres that was undertaken in 2016; and the reason this information has not been published. [2566/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has discussed with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform plans to reinstate school secretaries in primary schools onto his Department's pay base in order that they will be on a pay scale, receive holiday pay and sick payments and be entitled to a pension (details supplied). [54560/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined and the issues raised progressed. [54315/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the process for the tendering of a shop at Our Lady's Children's Hospital (details supplied); and when it went out for tender. [54316/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 667. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled as a matter of urgency. [54321/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [54485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Collins: 1666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the issue of persons who transfer from homeless payments to jobseeker's payments after being housed and who do not technically fit the criteria to qualify for fuel allowance will be examined (details supplied). [1778/18]

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: I agree with the Minister that this issue should be discussed every week in this House, because it is a crisis. Not only is it a crisis, it is also an emergency, although the Minister has not declared it as such. That is where we find a difference between his approach and that taken on this side of the House. Deputy Boyd Barrett mentioned that he has been losing patience over the past six...

Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: Before this evening's debate, I went back over information that I had gathered over recent years in relation to the campaign by the deaf community to have Irish Sign Language, ISL, recognised. I found the Irish Deaf Society's list of the ten main reasons that Irish Sign Language must be recognised by the State as a language of this country, which are as follows: there are 5,000 deaf people...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: This is very important.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: It needs to be raised. The operation was cancelled. On 21 November, it was again cancelled. This girl has not been waiting three months, six months or a year; she has been waiting nearly five years for an operation on her back that is badly needed. She goes to work every morning and has to come home early because of the pain in her back. I want a Government intervention to deal with this...