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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I support amendment No. 13. A 24-month review is much better and provides more time to evaluate the situation. I wish to speak in particular to amendments Nos. 15 and 17. I support the amendments for all the reasons Deputy Barry outlined. I remember that when the Oireachtas committee discussed the issues with the experts, workers in the Oireachtas asked members of Fianna Fáil what it...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I support the amendments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: How does the Minister intend to do that? Will they all be listed?

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I will start by referring to a headline - Republic of Homeless? - which was followed by some facts: 8,270 homeless people; 3,048 homeless children; more than 73,000 mortgages in arrears; 120,000 people on local authority housing lists; 141 repossessions taking place per month; two families becoming homeless per day; 46% of all homeless people are under 24 years of age; life expectancy for a...

Catalonia: Statements (24 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I read the Minister's speech. All things being equal, it would have been a reasonable speech but for the actions of 1 October, which changed things drastically. People around the world were rightly shocked to see a modern state, a member state of the EU, use brutal police violence to stop EU citizens in Catalonia from exercising their right to vote in a referendum called by the Catalan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter concerning the case of a person (details supplied). [44463/17]

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome the motion and I will support it. I will also support the amendments. In budget 2012, a Labour Party Minister in her first budget cut the social protection budget by €475 million. This was following a cut of €810 million in 2010 and €515 million in 2009 under Fianna Fáil. In 2012, a total of €1.8 billion had been taken out of people's pockets,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ring-fence moneys raised from carbon taxes to establish a grant scheme for small scale energy sustainability projects, urban horticulture and other schemes that can reduce CO2 emissions on a more local level. [43377/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of moneys raised from carbon taxes on an annual basis. [43385/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (17 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the medicines that have been removed by the MMP from the community drugs scheme; the amount the medicine cost the State before it was removed; the amount saved after its removal; and the number of persons receiving it before the medicine was removed from the list, in tabular form. [43931/17]

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan and Catherine Connolly. This budget and the overall approach of the Government can be summed up in three words, "crisis, what crisis?". According to the speech by the Minister for Finance, everything is going according to plan and no major changes or emergency actions are required. It is a case of give a bit here, take a bit there,...

Other Questions: Rail Services Staff (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the potential pending strike by railway workers in Iarnród Éireann. [42064/17]

Other Questions: Rail Services Staff (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I wish to ask the Minister his view on the potential pending strike by railway workers in Iarnród Éireann, who are currently balloting for strike action. I want the Minister's view on this because it has been well-flagged that Iarnród Éireann has been under serious financial strain. Since 2014 the company has been down €160 million; last year there were problems...

Other Questions: Rail Services Staff (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: That is not really good enough. The Minister has had on his desk since last January a report stating that €125 million should be given to Irish Rail because of work done between 2010 and 2016. The Minister can indeed pay this, which would alleviate the problems currently faced by Iarnród Éireann and prevent the company from using that financial problem as an excuse not to...

Other Questions: Irish Aviation Authority (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: Questions Nos. 10, 22 and 56 have been grouped together. One of those questions is mine - No. 22.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied). [43121/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No.242 of 11 October 2016, the amount that would accrue to the State if employer's PRSI was increased by 1%, 1.5% and 2% respectively for the 8.5% and 10.75% rates; and the number of employments affected, in tabular form. [43105/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Irish Water staff that are front line staff. [43092/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (10 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 312. To ask the Minister for Health the reason versatis 5% medicated plaster has been taken off the medical card since 1 September 2017, (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons will be forced into the day ward system as a result of same; and the pressure and estimated costs on hospitals. [42578/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 409. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received medical equipment that has been requested by a consultant in St James' hospital. [42211/17]