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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (24 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has received an application from a person (details supplied) under the invalidity pension scheme; when he will make a decision on it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11740/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Expenditure (24 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reintroducing the medical card for persons over 70 years of age to pre-2013 levels. [11590/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 407. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) is unable to receive the required treatment due to no funding being available from the Health Service Executive. [11239/16]

Report of Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I am happy to contribute to this debate as I believe it is an important one. Like other speakers, I take on board the fact that many people put a lot of work into this. Much of it is very positive and it is a step forward. I will preface that by saying this is not happening because we wanted it to or because anybody in this room wanted it to. We know if that had been the case, it would...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. O'Connor for his introduction. It seems that things are moving on and the situations now facing people in personal insolvency arrangements have changed. People seem to be in a better position to be able to negotiate with the banks through a personal insolvency practitioner. At the beginning, the belief was that it was only if a person had money that she could engage a PIP, but...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Joan Collins: When the vulture funds buy a loan book of distressed mortgages, let us say the majority of those mortgages would have been worth approximately €300,000 at the top of the boom, and they buy it at half the price, does the insolvency service negotiate on that amount or on the original mortgage?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I asked earlier who pays for the PIPs. Does the State pay for them through the insolvency service?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I have had dealings with the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation, as have many other Deputies in this room under previous Governments, in relation both to themselves and to constituents who come in to them regarding this issue. I want to register again that I fully endorse the fact that we are in a housing emergency and we still have a tsunami coming down the road in respect of repossessions...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I welcome the views expressed by Mr. Honohan because they will clear the decks a little that as a State we can intervene and purchase property from vulture funds by means of compulsory purchase orders to get housing directly rather than building which would take a much longer period. There is also the issue of clearing the decks in terms of the planning laws to allow for six, 12 or 20 weeks...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I remember distinctly my first day in the Dáil in 2011 and the Taoiseach made the point that we had seen a democratic revolution and he would keep his ear close to the ground. We did not have a democratic revolution. What we had was five years of severe austerity that has impacted so much on people's lives in how they live, how they work or do not work, how they raise their families,...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: -----nakedly go into government and look for ministerial positions. They could not nakedly do it but they are doing it from the back and through a silent group within that coalition. A ten-week charade was played out to deliver this sleight of hand-----

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: -----and the nine Independents are just the extras in the movie, the fall guys who deserve what is going to come to them, because it will come to them. The talk of new politics from Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil is laughable. There is nothing new here. This is a continuation of rule by two parties who have ruled on behalf of the elite since the foundation of this State. They have usurped...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: For me the legacy of the Labour Party's five years in Government can be summed up with one fact: the doubling of child poverty in this country over recent years.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: That is the Labour Party's legacy.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: There is nothing to be proud of when one in nine children lives in poverty. It is an enormous shame that the tradition of the Labour Party has been frittered away by a succession of leaders and career politicians who consistently put the spoils of office before their responsibility to build a mass alternative to change society. That was the ideal of Connolly and Larkin, to build a mass...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Joan Collins: That was what they had in mind, not where we are today and the fact that the Labour Party frittered away any support it had before. Those of us who now have the honour of carrying out that task will not squander that opportunity. We will play our role in building that alternative. People who went out and voted on 26 February have the right to change, not the change we have seen in this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 62. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of surgery for a person (details supplied) and if he will ensure that the person receives surgery with immediate effect. [9209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water (5 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual wage bill for employees in Irish Water for 2015. [9200/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (5 May 2016)

Joan Collins: 114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Sligo County Council purchased a house in 2015 to house persons (details supplied); that the council sought his approval for funding in October 2015 to construct an extension to the house, in compliance with the recommendation of the Health Service Executive’s occupational therapy service; that...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)

Joan Collins: I will be brief because I am not really au faitwith the various aspects of the building sector. However, we are in a state of emergency and crisis because people have no homes. This committee was initiated in order to allow members to sit down and work with people with building know-how. Mr. Parlon made the point that the average ballpark figure for building a house is €300,000,...