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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (22 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if the Cabinet will be making the final decisions relating to the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two to five age group and the R117h group; if so, when; and if not, the body that is making the final decision. [8976/17]

National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: I fully support this Bill. I congratulate those who have campaigned tirelessly for a particular date to be set aside for a commemoration of the millions of people who died through starvation or had to flee this country 170 years ago. I was surprised to hear the suggestion that the Famine of the 1840s was the last famine in Ireland. When I was reading The Big Issuebefore Christmas, I came...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (21 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 310. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the annual figures since 2005 for appeals lodged with the social welfare appeals office querying a refusal based on the habitual residence condition, broken down by Irish citizens and non-Irish nationals. [8738/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (21 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 437. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of contracted service providers from the NGO, charity, religious bodies and voluntary sectors to the HSE; and the total sum provided for that service provision in 2016. [8294/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (16 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: There has been an offer of talks but no one has agreed to take part because the contracts are still under threat.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (16 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: In an e-mail I received one of the workers in Tesco, Mark, states his mortgage, car loan and health insurance are all at risk. He and his colleagues, he continues, want to do a day's work and get on with their lives without a threat hanging over them. If the company gets workers on pre-1996 contracts, he warns, others must watch their backs because they will be next. I reiterate the...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (16 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: The situation in Tesco should be alarming to anyone concerned with decent work in this country, particularly Government. Over recent months, 900 full-time permanent jobs in a hugely profitable company have been lost. Not one full-time job has replaced them. Instead Tesco is now going after the remaining 250 workers on these decent contracts and trying to force them out the door. The...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: I certainly will be on this side of the House. I have no confidence in the Taoiseach or the Government. I am sure he is not surprised by that statement but it does not just relate to the despicable treatment of Maurice McCabe and other whistleblowers over the past decade. I also have no confidence in the Government in terms of the housing and homelessness crisis. Nor have I any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7766/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: There will be three and a half minutes for Deputy Connolly and me and Deputy Wallace will take three minutes. It was not necessary to view the RTE programme last week to be aware that we have an ongoing critical crisis in our health service. Every single public representative in the Dáil knows there is a crisis but the nation was shocked by the sheer, naked pain of the people and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 202. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged between 65 and 69 years of age who had a routine mammogram as per BreastCheck since January 2016. [6555/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: To follow up on that point, the problem is not just affecting people in emergency departments. I have just got a text from a constituent stating that her 16 year old daughter was due to go into hospital to have a kidney removed today but she got a telephone call to say it was cancelled because approximately 42 people were waiting on trolleys and 20 people were waiting on beds. This problem...

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: The Tánaiste is ignoring the fact that the jobs debate is not simply about quantity, but also quality. It is not just about establishing commissions. We need robust legislation. The Government is allowing us to become a low-pay Ireland. According to the OECD, one in four Irish workers is low paid. According to yesterday's SILC report, there are more than 100,000 working poor. The...

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise the very serious and escalating situation facing workers in Tesco. In recent weeks, Tesco has decided to take the extraordinary action of bypassing its workers' union, Mandate, and unilaterally imposing the terms of a contract. These terms, if accepted, would mean a pay cut of more than 15%, in addition to an attack on terms and conditions for the company's longest-serving...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 76. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) concerning unsafe staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4260/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 92. To ask the Minister for Health his views on data from a recent OECD report showing that Ireland has 2.8 hospital beds per 1,000 of the population compared to an OECD average of 4.8, while Ireland has 2.7 doctors per 1,000 of the population compared with an average of 3.3; and his plans to remedy this situation [4258/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (1 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: 270. To ask the Minister for Health when a full-time co-ordinator will be allocated to the South Inner City Drugs & Alcohol Task Force (details supplied). [4797/17]

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Joan Collins: Yes. I welcome the motion and I am glad to have the opportunity to speak about the situation in Bus Éireann this evening but I want to state clearly that despite what the Minister has been putting out, this is not an industrial relations dispute. The unions have made a wage claim. Bus Éireann has pulled out of the Workplace Relations Commission process and it is a matter of...

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Joan Collins: That is changing all of the time.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hare Coursing (31 Jan 2017)

Joan Collins: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE endorses hare coursing, which has been banned in many jurisdictions (details supplied); and his views on whether public moneys should be withdrawn for this project [4259/17]