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Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: This is a democratic Dáil. We have been elected by our peers to be in here.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: I want to take up the issue of the new research study that was published this morning, namely, Investing in the Right to a Home: Housing, HAPs and Hubs by Dr. Rory Hearne and Dr. Mary Murphy. The study was conducted as part of a Europe-wide examination of how to strengthen social investment. It says that the housing crisis has not yet peaked and is likely to escalate over the next five...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: There are 90,000 people on the housing waiting list. There are also the silent homeless living in overcrowded accommodation. There are also those who are in emergency accommodation. The reality is that the issue is not being addressed. We have not even reached the peak of this housing crisis and we are not addressing what we should be doing over the next five to ten years. The fact is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: 832. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 636 of 27 June 2017, if the Nevin Economic Research Institute, NERI, will be a member of this expert group in view of the housing crisis and the fact that the target date for the report from the expert group to be delivered by the end of the third quarter is no later than the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: 833. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 637 of 27 June 2017 (details supplied), the scale of the cost rental agency being considered; and his views on whether it should be aiming at 10,000 to 20,000 rental units per annum on local authority lands such as St. Michael's estate in Inchicore. [32960/17]

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputy Mick Wallace.

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome this debate on the quarterly report on housing and Rebuilding Ireland. Unfortunately, all we have seen recently is targets with nothing happening on the ground. The housing crisis is a social emergency and poses a major risk to the economy. However, the Government policy response has not been adequate and, as far as I can see, has worsened the crisis. The core failing is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in the English language teaching sector experience abuses (details supplied). [31628/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools Accreditation (6 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether English language teachers will be crucial to the expected 25% growth of international students in the next four years; his further views on whether these jobs must be quality jobs; and his plans to include minimum employment conditions for English language teachers in the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Amendment)...

Early Childhood Care and Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: I will speak for three minutes and my colleague, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, will speak for five minutes. I will be succinct in what I have to say. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this Private Members' Bill today. It is certainly at an opportune moment especially given what has been said about workers in the child-care sector, many of whom are facing a period on the dole from...

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: I find the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Labour Party and potentially the Green Party position on this issue bizarre. All of them were complicit in the privatisation of our waste services, a service provided for 80 to 100 years through local authorities and introduced specifically to address the issue of cholera, waste on our streets and to prevent the spread of disease. It was a very...

Other Questions: National Mitigation Plan (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the national mitigation plan on climate change has been brought to Cabinet; and when it will be brought to Dáil Éireann for debate. [29799/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Ireland will meet its climate change targets by 2020; and if not, his plans to ensure the targets are met between 2017 and 2020. [29800/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Climate Change Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way in which the national dialogue on climate change is being processed; when it will commence; the way in which it will be implemented; and his plans to bring this dialogue into communities and workplaces. [29928/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 322. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a group (details supplied) was not included on the consultative and advisory group on Moore Street. [29825/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 323. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a group (details supplied) was not included on the consultative and advisory group on Moore Street. [29826/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 324. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason an association (details supplied) founded in 1926 was not included on the consultative and advisory group on Moore Street. [29827/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 325. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she accepts the consultative group's report on Moore Street; if she accepts all of its recommendations; and the recommendations that she does not accept. [29828/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Legal Costs (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 326. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount it has cost in legal fees to date in 2017 on challenging the High Court ruling against the Minister and a company (details supplied) of March 2016; the origin of the moneys used; the amount her Department has costed the case if it is heard in the appeal court or in the Supreme Court; and the location from which that...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 327. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount the State has given in grants to property developers in Moore Street regarding the national 1916 historical monument. [30007/17]