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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 426. To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours will be provided for a person (details supplied); if funding will be provided in order that extra staff and support for home help services in Crumlin will be provided for persons leaving hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42264/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I spoke last night. I am here listening to the debate tonight.

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome the Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017. It would deal with a very small niche section of our housing crisis and would probably play an important part, but I too am concerned about watering down any regulation that is there for a reason. We have building regulations for specific reasons. As has been said, in many cases they are not being adhered to. Enforcement and having the...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I am obviously underwhelmed by the Taoiseach's response. There is popular support for this referendum, as the Taoiseach is well aware. Many Right to Change and Right to Water activists signed and campaigned for this. The reason there was such an intense and strong opposition to the installation of meters in communities was that there was an understanding that every meter installed brought...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: The Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016 passed Second Stage without any opposition last November. It seeks to enshrine ownership and management of our public water system in the Constitution by way of a referendum. The Taoiseach has outlined a programme of seven referenda over the next year or so but there is no mention of a referendum on...

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: I commend Deputy O'Sullivan on presenting this Private Members' motion this evening. I was delighted to sign up to it with the Independents 4 Change. I welcome the NGOs, volunteers and activists in the Gallery. It reflects the interest and concern people have in animal welfare and health. There is an expression that a society is judged by how it treats, supports and protects its...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (3 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 288. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been informed that the person's general practitioner card has been withdrawn for a period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41242/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (3 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: 575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to retrospectively apply the homemaker's scheme to 1973 in order to ensure equitable access to the State pension and benefit older women. [41573/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: I will most definitely seek to amend the Water Services Bill 2017 and, as it stands, I will oppose it. If there are amendments, I will have to look at them. This is a Bill which, while seeming to abolish water services and replace them with direct funding from general taxation, is also seeking to insert loopholes that will allow for their reintroduction in the future. The legislation is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: I concur with many of Deputy Brady's points on discrimination in the Department. Discrimination is one of the main areas that the Department will have to deal with in the future and if there is blatant discrimination then there is a problem. A Department not having proper standards does not reflect well on other sections of society. One cannot stand over that. The Department has to work to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (28 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: 15. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he is planning to implement the future of health care report. [40916/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: 78. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the service provision at Chamber House, Tallaght; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40915/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (28 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Dublin City Council or other local authorities vote to rescind freedom of the city to a person (details supplied), if there is a legal impediment to enact this decision; if not, if additional legislation is needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41041/17]

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: While I support the motion, it is extremely frustrating to take part in an endless discussion on the housing and homeless crisis. Given the Government's stance on the issue, it is clear the debate will go nowhere. As I stated last week, the Government is implementing the same policy and sending out a message that it will deliver different results and address the crisis. What is needed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40935/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: 542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projects (details supplied) that Irish Water has contracted out; and the costs of each project. [40614/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: 546. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current waiting times to hear confirmation after the medical and interview section of the application to join the Army is completed; and when a person (details supplied) can expect to hear if they have been successful or not. [40396/17]

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: Fine Gael has members on the council.

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn the violence and ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar; the action he plans to take to hold the Government of Myanmar to account and stop this humanitarian crisis; and his views on a call for the freedom of Dublin city to be stripped from Aung San Suu Kyi. [39696/17]

Other Questions: Human Rights (21 Sep 2017)

Joan Collins: Will the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade condemn the violence and ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar? What action does he plan to take to hold the Government of Myanmar to account and stop this humanitarian crisis? What are his views on a call for the freedom of Dublin city to be stripped from Aung San Suu Kyi?