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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8492/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Defence the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8471/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Defence the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8485/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8467/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8481/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total amount spent on outsourced security services in her Department; and if she will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8469/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in her Department; and if she will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8483/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8476/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8490/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8480/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount spent on outsourced cleaning services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8494/13]

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: What about Greece?

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: We have allies in Greece, Portugal and Spain.

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: Many Deputies will have received today letters and emails from distressed IBRC workers. Last week, 850 bank workers were made redundant overnight. They received no notice, no consultation and no meetings with their unions. In fact, as one worker who emailed me said, he found out through the media. Bank employees did not cause this scandal and they are as much the victims of the greed of...

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: This deal was negotiated by the elite in Ireland for the elite in Europe and solely in the interests of those elites. It will keep the markets happy, including the loan sharks and speculators as we have seen already, but it was not our debt. It is not our debt and it should never have been put on the shoulders of ordinary people in this country.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (13 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 15 May 2012, when she reported that work was underway preparing a proposed Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill, and that the Bill was part of the legislative programme for 2012 which she intended to bring it forward during 2012, if she will state the reason the Bill was not brought forward...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (13 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: As other Deputies mentioned, the question arises about the length of time it is taking for these issues to be processed. We tabled a question in May 2012, the reply to which indicated that the work was under way and that the heads of the Bill would be published in 2012, but nine months later we are still waiting for the Bill to be brought forward. I do not know whether the Minister saw the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (13 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: Obviously, the constitutional issue has to be addressed, but the National Adoption Contact Preference Register is available-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Legislation (13 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: -----to try to put the framework in place for those persons who do not want their information to be given out. However, it is important that individuals should have access to their parental history, including their medical history and so on. There should not be a delay in bringing forward the general legislation the Minister wants to introduce; it should be brought forward quickly. Does...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (12 Feb 2013)

Joan Collins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm as per the IMF staff report on Ireland of December 2012, that he has given a commitment to bring in water charges in the near future; the way in which charges will be calculated; the methods of collection that have been proposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7110/13]