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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (26 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in State Laboratories for 2012; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [9909/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (26 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent on outsourced security services in the Court Services for 2012; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [9910/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (26 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in the Court Services for 2012; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9911/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (26 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent on outsourced security services in the Garda civilian section for 2012; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [9912/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (26 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in the Garda civilian section for 2012; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [9913/13]

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: When those days are over, they legislate.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: On a point of clarification, could the Minister of State clarify that when I asked him whether he was listening that he replied there was not much to listen to?

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: I expect it will be on the record but I will pass it onto the shared ownership people who are in distress at the moment.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: I will pass it on.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: I will pass it on.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, Tom Fleming, Boyd Barrett and Finian McGrath.

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: I support this motion in general. I have a Bill in the lottery of Bills that would offer a real solution for ordinary home owners with distressed mortgages. I hope it will be before the House soon. I wish to address an important related issue that has serious effects for many people but is receiving little or no attention or publicity, namely, the shared ownership scheme. It was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: A great deal was covered by Deputy Ó Snodaigh and I am not sure there is much more to ask. I thank the witnesses for the report. Progress has been made on appeals but there are still many difficulties in terms of having experienced staff who can deal with cases sensitively and properly for people who are unwell. Is the moratorium still in place on staffing for the appeals office? It...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: According to the McAleese report there was no single or simple story of the Magdalen laundries. A system of slavery, servitude and enforced labour is the single, simple story of the Magdalen laundries. I am glad that the Taoiseach recognised that in the apology given on behalf of the State concerning that era when women were subjected to such treatment over the decades. The women in the...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (19 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: I wished to raise this matter because it is becoming a more prevalent issue in my day-to-day work in my constituency of Dublin South-Central, where much of the housing stock is of a certain age. It may also be related to climate change and changes in our weather patterns. In St. Teresa's Gardens and other large local authority flat complexes there are also issues of mould, dampness and...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (19 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State for her response. This is an area that needs to be addressed urgently. I know of a young woman with two children who moved into her house in Drimnagh in 2010, just after the BER rating system was introduced. Almost every week she has to wash down the walls on the ground floor of her house to remove mould. Her young children had to move out of the house over...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 890 of 5 February 2013, the matter of the overpayment to a board member at the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company is the subject of legal action, this means that the board member in question has refused to repay the moneys owing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8573/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 888 of 5 February 2013, and his commitment of taking up the issue of €20,000 payment of a car allowance to the CEO of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company, if he will now agree to take up this issue with the acting chairperson instead as it is unclear when a new chairperson will be appointed; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (19 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Taoiseach the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8656/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (19 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Taoiseach the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8657/13]