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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 600. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 12 November 2015 and in view of his acknowledgement of agreements being done orally with companies (details supplied) regarding petroleum prospecting licences, and the link with the Environmental Protection Agency research project, if any oral or tacit agreements have also...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 601. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 12 November 2015 and given his statement on oral agreements in relation to petroleum prospecting licences when these deals were made; who made them; and if the companies involved have formally accepted them. [42488/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: I am disappointed with the Minister's response. Those who work in the service with whom I have spoken were disappointed to be given notice to clear out the accommodation by 14 January. Where will Tusla continue providing such supports? I do not know what planet the Minister is living on to say that the families residing at the Cuan Álainn centre have "pressing housing needs" that...

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: Cuan Álainn women's shelter is a secondary housing centre for women and children escaping from domestic violence. It gives women and children up to six months to live in safety and assists them in moving to permanent housing. It was set up by Respond! three and a half years ago when it saw a need for the service through its work as a housing agency. The service has been used by 71...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Special Education: Chairperson Designate (25 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: Chairman, I will have to leave in approximately half an hour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Special Education: Chairperson Designate (25 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: Mr. Stack is very welcome. Many areas have been covered by the other two Deputies. A great deal of good work is being done in respect of looking at the impact of education on children with special needs, including those with various forms of autism. It is a societal issue because as a society we said we would bring these children into mainstream education. Therefore, we must ensure they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (25 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if it is or ever has been the practice of any Irish maternity hospital, especially the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street in Dublin 2, to record surgeries, including emergency surgeries, visually as a matter of course (details supplied). [41959/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (24 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 534. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that when planning permission was granted for the Johnston Court development in Sligo it was a condition, under Part V of the Planning Act, that six of the 30 apartments in the development would be made available for social housing; that when the apartments were completed in May 2008 Sligo County Council...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: I support this motion. We have listened to the Government time and again roll out different figures or the same figures to give the impression that more money is going to housing in this country. The Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, is a good example of the Labour Party's role in the Government. For months he has huffed, puffed and generally made a great deal of noise but then he quietly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (18 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact the proposals from the Irish League of Credit Unions to invest €2 billion for social housing will have on the balance sheets of the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40351/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (18 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on lifting, the crude and inflexible, lending restrictions imposed on credit unions. [40386/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (18 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if a grant for a hearing aid is available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40829/15]

Paris Terrorist Attack: Statements (17 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: Like every civilised person on this planet, I was appalled and outraged at the events in Paris last Friday night. I want to express my deepest sympathy and solidarity with the victims of this outrage, their families and the French people. Nothing can justify these atrocious acts which have left 129 people dead and 352 injured. Only for the security guard in the Stade de France stopping one...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (17 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will review the requests her Department made for a person (details supplied) to be applying for 200 to 300 jobs a week; and her views on the other issues that are raised in the timeline. [40094/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 465. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the waiting list for surgery for scoliosis patients in Galway University Hospital. [40656/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance (17 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 567. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amounts he has allocated to Sligo County Council for adaptations and extensions to social housing, for each of the years 2013 to 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40416/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance (17 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 568. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amounts Sligo County Council has drawn down for adaptations and extensions to social housing from his Department, for each of the years 2013 to 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40417/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18; if she will arrange to meet the principal and teachers to discuss the continous problems the school is facing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39969/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Prospecting Licences (12 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: 202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 517 of 19 May 2015 and a previous parliamentary question when the companies involved were informed that no petroleum prospecting licence was required; if moneys for applications for the licence were returned to the companies involved; the date of same; and, given that moneys were...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: Irrespective of the Minister of State's comments on constraints and although welcome to a small degree, many of the pensioners I have met have said the €3 increase is derisory. It will cover the cost of an extra pan of bread and pint of milk once a week; it will be known, therefore, in the next period as the pan of bread and pint of milk increase. A pan of bread costs approximately...