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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Management (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 586 of 23 of May 2017, if the review he referred to regarding an incentivised system in regard to waste management has been completed; if the situation that ensued in 2016 whereby families were charged more for their waste collection than previously will not recur; if there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, and in particular the second last paragraph which refers to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, if the report is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2017; and if he has a target date of the third quarter of 2017. [30086/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, and in particular the second paragraph which refers to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, the persons who are on this expert group; the terms of reference of the group; and if an organisation (details supplied) has been asked to be on it. [30087/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, in particular the second last paragraph which refers to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, the scale of the cost of the rental agency being considered; and his views on whether it should be aiming at €10,000 to €20,000 per annum....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, in particular the reference to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, if it will be a semi-State company that progresses the cost rental model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30089/17]

Committee on the Future of Healthcare Report: Motion (22 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank the secretariat, the Trinity College team, the chairman, Deputy Shortall, and all my colleagues on the committee. There was an arduous 11 months of work on this report. I voted for the report in the committee despite the fact I believe it does not go far enough. Other Deputies think it goes too far. I will continue to support it and I will fight for its implementation in full....

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I raised this issue yesterday with the Taoiseach and I have to say his response was underwhelming. It turns out today we have heard the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, stating he will not meet the targets for taking families out of the emergency accommodation by 1 July, which the previous Minister, Deputy Coveney, promised earnestly to us and the Home Sweet Home campaign last December. The...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: What will the Government do about it? It is not good enough to take three months now to review Rebuilding Ireland. These families will be stuck again in accommodation that is not up to standard. It is an outrage.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: The previous Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government promised that all families in emergency hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation would not be in that accommodation by 1 July. He promised it last year and to the Home Sweet Home delegation which met him. It is only nine days to 1 July. I want to know what is happening there. I put in two Topical Issues yesterday...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: Where is the Taoiseach's commitment?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 1397. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if there are staff shortages in the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital. [28288/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (20 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: 1435. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a hospital complaint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28389/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension Schemes: Discussion (15 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I am not an expert on pensions and I find them difficult. I worked in An Post before I was elected and our own pension scheme was in trouble several years ago. It was hard to understand the way it was run. To my mind, defined benefit schemes were a significant step forward in the 1980s and 1990s from the point of view of the employer and the employee. They were socially integrating,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension Schemes: Discussion (15 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I was a post office clerk and I worked at the counter in the GPO. I made phone calls to Ms Toner and her colleagues to put through international calls in 1982 when people had to book five minutes for a call. We fought for equal pay, equal work and equal value for the telephonists. This issue about pensions is a step on from that and has to be dealt with. The legislation is wrong and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension Schemes: Discussion (15 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: On all the schemes, including the defined benefit and defined contribution, can the Pensions Authority give us a breakdown of the gender base of those schemes? I do not mean now but it could be sent on to us if a report is available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension Schemes: Discussion (15 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. Kennedy.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with Deputies Catherine Connolly and Mick Wallace. I received an interesting reply from the Taoiseach-elect in his former position as Minister for Social Protection. He replied in a parliamentary question that he wanted to reduce consistent poverty rates to pre-crisis levels and lower, and wanted to do the same for child poverty. Deputy Varadkar is also on record as...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: It is at committee today.

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: The copyright and related rights (amendment) (miscellaneous intellectual property) Bill is on the Government's proposed spring-summer legislative programme. Where does it stand? It is with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. Also, while the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is present, I met representatives from Trinity College Dublin who would like to meet the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)

Joan Collins: Is it the copyright and related rights (amendment) (miscellaneous intellectual property) Bill?