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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (23 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of family hubs which have been set up; the locations where hubs have been set up; the number of families that have been facilitated in each hub; the criteria for allocations; and the facilities that are provided in these hubs. [24618/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Disposal Charges (23 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 586. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is pursuing the policy of freezing the introduction of pay by weight for waste collection in 2017; and the measures he has put in place to ensure the situation which occurred in 2016 will not happen again (details supplied). [24651/17]

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Joan Collins: That is "alleged" fraud.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I support the motion. I generally support the tenor of the debate this evening. For three years now, we know that premiums have gone up very high by more than 50%. We know that more people are being forced into driving without insurance because they cannot afford the insurance as it is so high. I want to take the opportunity to deal with some of the issues that have been raised already...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the inpatient waiting list for the urology department in Saint James's Hospital for six months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months and 48 months respectively. [23481/17]

Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I support the Bill brought forward by Solidarity-PBP. It is a very important Bill, and I have spoken on this issue a number of times in the Dáil in the past few years. In terms of the consultation process, the Minister has had 11 consultations and there are to be another four, but that is not dealing with the issue we are facing as a society. A recent report in The Irish Timessuggested...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach called my proposal facile. I call his policy a failure. As I expected, he has come back with figures, projections and plans, none of which add up. They are a fantasy. It is a fantasy to believe that the private sector, which was responsible for the problem in the first place, will now be the solution. I am talking about local authority homes. I refer the Taoiseach and...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: By private developers.

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: Last summer, the Minister with responsibility for housing, Deputy Simon Coveney, made a commitment that by 1 July this year no homeless families would be left in hotels. More than 800 families are still in this situation with six weeks to go. Maybe when the Minister made this commitment he was hoping that by 1 July he would have moved on to better things and some other Minister would have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels that should be in place in the urology department in St. James's Hospital (details supplied); and the current staffing levels in place. [23232/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Schemes (16 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 524. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the better energy warmer homes schemes; if his attention has been drawn to this situation; and his plans to change the criteria to address this situation. [22903/17]

Standing Order 27: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 3: To delete all words after “That” were it firstly occurs and substitute the following: “with effect from 9th May, 2017, the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business be amended by the adoption of the following in substitution for Standing Order 27: ‘27. Upon taking the Chair each day, and before any business is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank the committee for inviting Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, Ms. Treasa Brannick O’Cillín and me to appear before it today to begin the pre-committee scrutiny of the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016 and the proposed constitutional amendment contained therein. This proposed constitutional amendment seeks to address...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: Yes. Clearly, we are talking about the public water system. We are not talking about group water schemes, boreholes or private water systems, which are constituted differently. If the Government perceives a problem in its own situation in respect of the public-private aspect, the Department should tell members where the problems arise and explain them. The Department has not clarified why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to debate this Bill. It is important there is clarity around the issues concerned. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights did not include water because it was not envisaged 70 years ago that private companies would be set up to run water services. In 2010, 122 countries agreed that water sanitation is a fundamental human right. That was a very important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: For the purposes of clarification, I welcomed the Minister's invitation to meet officials of the Department. We met once, at which point he was sending the information to the Attorney General for feedback. I respect the fact that there is a process and that we have to try to get this right. At the same time, however, we should try to move things on. I certainly do not want to attend...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (3 May 2017)

Joan Collins: 66. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the serious lack of services for children with complex and non-complex intellectual and physical disability needs in a special needs school (details supplied); the number of parents who have contacted him regarding problems accessing services in the school; the length of time since his attention was drawn to the problems accessing speech and...

Standing Order 27: Motion (2 May 2017)

Joan Collins: I find it incredible that we are debating this issue. This is the 21st century. We need to move on. We need to recognise that religious belief, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim or other, is a personal matter to be respected but it is not the business of the State or Parliament to endorse in any way any particular religious belief. Standing Order 27 does precisely that. It calls on a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Medals (13 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: 412. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces are being ordered to wear the new 1916 commemorative medal (details supplied); if this is an unintended mistake; if he will correct this anomaly by ensuring the service medals of 1916 and the War of Independence are inexorably listed to the fore of any official precedent here involving State primary service medals; and...