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

Joan Collins: Can someone comment on the relevant contract tax, RTC, and the direct labour costs in the construction industry?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)

Joan Collins: My question is similar to the one I put to the CIF. I seek a breakdown of the cost of building a house. I generally agree that there has to be a national strategy and that it has to come from somewhere such as a ministry. I have always argued that the right to property brings with it responsibility. It always seems to fail on this aspect in the private end of things. I would like the...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: I too congratulate the people who came out in their thousands in the past year and a half. Over 1 million people in seven major demonstrations walked shoulder to shoulder with the Right2Water movement which changed the face of politics in this country. After years of austerity, the straw that broke the backs of the people was water, Irish Water and the potential privatisation of a natural...

Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: I join other Deputies in asking for the motion to be put on the agenda today. As a Deputy who stood in this and the last election in opposition to water charges, who has not paid them and who has stood against metering in communities because people believe it is the next step to privatisation, it is important that the democratic will of the people be discussed today. That is the problem...

Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: Why not take the issue out of the negotiations and bring it into the Dáil in line with the democratic mandate given by the people? Some 90 Deputies have been elected on a mandate to discuss and vote on the issue. We would welcome it if Fianna Fáil tabled amendments to the motion today.

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: Many issues have arisen in the past week or so, not only gangland crime but also cancer services, which has been debated on the airwaves all day today and in the past few days, the industrial relations situation regarding Luas and the Tesco workers. Issues are arising and this Dáil is not functioning in the way it should in terms of trying to intervene in them. I appeal to Fianna...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (26 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 486. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount a company (details supplied) has paid in compensation for not providing a service on the days of the strike action by the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union workers. [8328/16]

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: It is now seven weeks since the general election and the people have faced the charade of the election a Taoiseach for the third time. My understanding is that a vote to elect a Taoiseach is a vote to elect a Head of Government. On the three occasions on which people were nominated, none was capable of forming a Government. While this charade goes on in this House, the crises people are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will revise her position on rent supplement and increase it due to the huge increase in family homelessness since the beginning of 2016 and respond to the call of the homeless agencies to increase it. [6278/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 18 November 2015, the position regarding the progression of the proposal from his officials. [6255/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Data (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 782. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of public moneys allocated to local authority water and sewerage departments and to Irish Water, as appropriate, from either motor tax or local property tax in each of the years 2009 to 31 March 2016. [6231/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Collins: 810. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has allocated funding for the Dalymount Park project; his views on the future funding and development of Dalymount Park including the potential role of Shelbourne Football Club within it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5452/16]

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: As I do not have too much time, I will cut to the chase. We know exactly the reason this debate is being held today in the Dáil. We know that the housing crisis continued under the Minister's watch although I would agree entirely that this started under the Government of Fianna Fáil. It is the result of a neoliberal politics which depended on developers to build homes and that...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: Where there is a will there is a way. If the Minister wanted to, he would have sorted that out and that funding would have been invested in local authority housing. It is outrageous and people on the doorsteps are saying they cannot understand a Government which is facing a housing crisis will not deal with this. The Minister states he has all the money to build the housing but we have not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: 351. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients which are on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in University Hospital Galway for six, 12, 18 and 24 months, respectively. [5049/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: 352. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and how long the person will be waiting for surgery. [5051/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12 for six months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months. [5088/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Assistance Scheme Applications (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Collins: 535. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the report from Dublin City Council regarding access routes to the site in Jamestown Road, Dublin 8, given that he referred in a reply to Parliamentary Question No. 589 of 15 December 2015, that he was expecting the report. [5089/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (3 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: 89. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has reviewed the offer of €2 billion from the Irish League of Credit Unions to facilitate the building of social housing; the status of the process to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4503/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Collins: The employers are still able to get away with it.