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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (6 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 258. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any public hospital or clinic here providing specialist neurophysiotherapy for patients with functional neurological symptoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11397/14]

Protection of Residential Mortgage Account Holders Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I support this Bill. It is an outrage that this Government, which includes the Labour Party, is allowing vulture capitalists to buy up these mortgages at knock-down prices while the 13,246 mortgage holders will be asked to pay full whack and could face huge increases in interest charges. The fact that almost 50% of these mortgages are in arrears will also be a huge concern to these mortgage...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach is in power now.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: We know what the needs are. Some 90,000 families are on the waiting list nationally. In Dublin alone, there are 16,100 families on it. This amounts to approximately 170,000 individuals, which the population of Wexford and Leitrim combined. This is not a question of having discussions or waiting for a month or three weeks to have a meeting. The problem needs to be addressed now; we know...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: They have been thrown out of their homes.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: On the local authority waiting list.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach one of the most immediate and pressing issues that has developed in the past six months, that is, on top of the already critical homelessness problem, the new phenomenon of young families finding themselves homeless owing to a number of factors. A family of two adults and two children who have been in touch with us are living in Bewleys Hotel since November...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 267. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the old metal water cover lids and brackets that are being replaced with the new plastic covers in the course of water metering; the number of these covers that are being replaced; the person responsible for their disposal; where are they being disposed of; and the person that receives the proceeds if there...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 405. To ask the Minister for Health the annual wages of the chief executive officer of Cheeverstown as a section 38 voluntary service. [10426/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: 490. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neck and face post-cancer patients who are awaiting dental care for three months, six months and 12 months (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10905/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Sex Abuse Victims (27 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 14. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the remedies that are available to victims of child sex abuse who believe that they were left unprotected by the actions of their solicitors; the legislative changes he plans to implement to hold the legal profession to account in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9715/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (27 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will carry out an investigation into strong evidence that News International's Dublin offices were used as a hacking and phone blagging centre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. [9716/14]

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: It is disgusting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role and Potential of Community and Vocational Education: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I have only one or two questions and I will not be too long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role and Potential of Community and Vocational Education: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses. It is interesting to hear from all the groups that are involved in the community sector looking at the changes that have occurred over the past five years. My question is a follow-up on the SOLAS plan. How does that plan work? Do employers or potential employers in technology and all the different areas come to SOLAS stating what they envisage over the next period...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I do not know where the Taoiseach has been for the past period of time but even GSOC has said that it does not have the powers that are needed to investigate independently matters. There has been and will continue to be a culture regarding this issue unless fundamental legislation is introduced to separate the powers of the State and the powers of a body doing its job. We have seen the Fr....

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I also to want to refer to the controversy regarding penalty points, surveillance of GSOC and the treatment of the Garda whistleblowers, Sergeant McCabe and former Garda John Wilson. In referring to it, it is quite clear that Mr. Shatter does not do apologies.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: It is quite clear that an investigation into an investigation is going to continue. However, what is also very clear is that there is an aggressive reluctance by senior gardaí to accept any form of meaningful accountability over what Garda Commissioner Callinan refers to as his force. This is the nub of the matter. It is also clear that the Minister, Deputy Shatter, has backed senior...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (26 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: 276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding funding for young athletes representing their country in major international events; if there are grants to support children to attend these events and appeals for sponsor; and his views on whether when a young person is selected to represent their country in major international events the State pay all or a...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Joan Collins: I welcome the postmasters who are present in the Gallery. I congratulate them on their level of organisation and I wish them well in their protest at 7 p.m. tomorrow outside the gates of Leinster House. The Communications Workers Union, CWU, supports the protest and has written to all its members and asked them to attend. It, therefore, will be a large protest and will also include people...