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Written Answers — Local Authority Management: Local Authority Management (13 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 412: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Office for Local Authority Management was established to provide management and support services to the County and City Managers' Association; the number of staff employed in the Office for Local Authority Management; the cost of salaries for staff; the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Management: Local Authority Management (13 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 413: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he or any officials from his Department have had a meeting or meetings with the chairperson (details supplied) of the County and City Managers' Association since they took up office; the dates on which the meetings took place, the purpose of the meetings; the topics discussed; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Local Authority Management: Local Authority Management (13 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 414: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding, if any, that is given to the County and City Managers' Association by his Department, the Local Government Management Services Board, and individual local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14320/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Management: Local Authority Management (13 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 415: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that the Sligo county manager, in his report on the Sligo County Council budget for 2012, issued to councillors on the 6 December 2011, indicated that the council is hopeful of progressing the following projects (details supplied) in 2012; which of these projects he...

Local Government Reform (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Is the Minister a socialist now?

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 126: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the expenditure of regeneration funding in 2011 in respect of the eastern quadrant regeneration project in Sligo that is funding expended on staff salaries, consultants' fees, firms providing professional services, community workers and so on; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 127: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 2 November 2011, in view of the delay involved in issuing a response to date if he will expedite the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13275/12]

Waste Management (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 3: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his views that the policy of charging for local domestic waste collection services (details supplied) and the resulting privatisation of such services has been a failure, has impacted negatively on the environment and has the potential to create a serious public health hazard and that essential public...

Waste Management (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. We are speaking about the present. There is mayhem in our communities, with four or five different private companies going down the same street on different days. So much for the polluter paying or trying to protect the environment, because this totally turns that on its head. Greyhound, which serves the Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council areas,...

Waste Management (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: I think the Minister should.

Waste Management (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: It is wrong to say 12,000 or 18,000 households caused the privatisation of services in the Dublin City Council area. I do not accept this and I do not think the majority of people would accept it. The previous Government made a conscious decision, and supported by the present Government-----

Waste Management (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: -----to privatise services. Does the Minister think the privatisation system in place at present does not do the service well and that it would be better to nationalise the bin service?

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: The Labour Party should be ashamed of itself for contemplating a sale or part sale of State assets. To sell such assets would be a wanton and criminal act. The view of people on the street is that our assets are not the Government's to sell. The feedback the United Left Alliance is receiving is that people are angry that the Labour Party is even contemplating the part sale of State assets....

Turbary Rights: Motion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, Tom Fleming, Healy-Rae, Mattie McGrath and Wallace.

Turbary Rights: Motion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Obviously, I support this motion put forward by Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association, which I signed. I also welcome the opportunity to express my solidarity with my rural brothers and sisters. Attempts often are made in the Dáil in particular to create a rural-city divide and opportunities such as this debate demonstrate that one should have...

Written Answers — Local Authority Budgets: Local Authority Budgets (6 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that it is a matter for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities in the context of its annual budgetary process; and in this context the reason he is in ongoing consultation with Sligo County Council in relation to its 2012 budget, in view of the...

Written Answers — Health Centres: Health Centres (6 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 532: To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans for the building in which the current health centre is located in Ballyfermot, Dublin 10. [12325/12]

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: The title of the Bill indicates that its purpose is to facilitate, in the public interest, the financial stability of the EU and the safeguarding of financial stability in the euro area as a whole. I note the insertion of the term "public interest" but would it not be more honest to insert the term "in the interests of the European banking system"? What has happened in Greece cannot be...

Scrap and Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011: Second Stage (2 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: Deputy Mattie McGrath put much work into this Bill, which I support, in terms of looking at legislation in other countries, such as in England and in states in the United States of America, to see how they brought in legislation to regulate the area of metal and precious metal. Between 2009 and 2010, we all saw these cash for gold shops springing up around the city which correlated with the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (28 Feb 2012)

Joan Collins: Question 527: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he allocated for the regeneration of an estate (details supplied) in County Sligo, in 2011; the amount spent by Sligo Borough Council on the regeneration programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11263/12]