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Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 134: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the personnel that participated in the meeting in Ballymote, County Sligo on 20 May 2011, at which he discussed the financial position and funding challenges facing Sligo County Council; if minutes or notes were taken at the meeting; if he or his Department have any record, report or documentation in...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 132: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo Borough Council in its application for funding for the Cranmore regeneration project for 2011 sought funding in respect of improvement works to facilitate the pedestrianisation of O'Connell Street, Sligo; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the request for funding in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [26716/11]

Family Support Services (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise what many people see as an important issue. I hope the Minister of State will share that view. We were all absolutely shocked when we heard last Tuesday on the airwaves what women were facing in 2011 with regard to access to refuge. The position has worsened. There has been a 42% increase in the number of women contacting domestic...

Family Support Services (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: I welcome the fact that there is an investigation of how to access money to open Teach Tearmainn in Kildare. It appears from the Minister's comments that the money will be accessed. It is important to get that facility up and running. However, I am still a little concerned about some of the points made. All the reports show there has been an increase in domestic violence and in violence...

Issue of Writ: Dublin West By-election (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: This by-election is an opportunity for the people in Dublin West to send a clear message that they want action, not empty promises, from the Government to tackle the mortgage crisis. This is an area, ranging from Swords in north Dublin to Clonee on the Meath border, where over the past decade there have been huge developments of housing and apartments during the property boom. Many of the...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 306: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff and their grades employed in the Registry of Friendly Societies in each of the years 2009, 2010 and in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27214/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 374: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown in thousand euro segments and the number of persons receiving that figure or below in social welfare payments on a yearly basis (details supplied); if she will further provide a breakdown for weekly payments in €50 segments; in view of media reports being driven by members of the Oireachtas that are...

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: I stand in solidarity with Teresa Treacy, a 65 year old lover of the environment. What I see is a case of David and Goliath. She has been involved in a five year conflict since February 2006. Having started with 90 other landowners who were opposed to the pylons going overground, she is left on her own. The ESB has a choice. It argued initially that placing the cables underground was...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Remuneration: Banking Sector Remuneration (5 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give a clear commitment that there will be no consideration of lifting the cap of €500,000 on bankers' pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27650/11]

Written Answers — Global Economic Forecasts: Global Economic Forecasts (5 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance his response to the IMF's World Economic Outlook report and the UNCTAD report in terms of austerity; if he has read these reports; the impact their analysis might have for the economy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27651/11]

Written Answers — Financial Governance: Financial Governance (5 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 155: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Local Government Audit Service report on Financial Management Reporting in Local Authorities (Report No. 24) published in 2007, recommended that financial management reports should be provided to the elected council on a regular basis, at least quarterly,...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: I support the Bill and its continuation to Committee Stage. How could anyone in the Chamber not support it? During the election campaign the Labour Party defended the JLCs and REAs. It stated it would strongly oppose any efforts to dismantle them or render them useless from the point of view of employment protection. What has happened since the High Court judgment is that workers are not...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Can we not simply write down mortgage debt and let people breath?

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: If you don't have money you cannot pay.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (11 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of apprentices from the Office of Public Works who have served their time and then not been kept on since the introduction of the moratorium on recruitment; if he will provide an estimate based on the current amount of apprentices in the OPW that will be serving their time in the next year who will also not be...

Written Answers — Registrar of Friendly Societies: Registrar of Friendly Societies (11 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of industrial and provident societies registered with the Registry of Friendly Societies which have not complied with the statutory obligations with regard to filing annual returns; the number of the societies that have failed to make annual returns consecutively for the past three, four and five years; the...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (11 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 345: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency sought applications or proposals for the post of Sligo regeneration community liaison person with 12 July 2011 as the closing date for receipt of proposals; the number of proposals or applications received; if a...

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (11 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Question 473: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 20 July 2011, the nature of the disciplinary action taken by the Health Service Executive human resource department following the internal audit; and the details of the recommendations of the internal audit. [28355/11]

Debt Settlement and Mortgage Resolution Office Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Oct 2011)

Joan Collins: Before I comment on the Bill, further to what Deputy Doherty said, I must state that Fianna Fáil played a major role in the debt crisis and the mortgage crisis affecting so many of our citizens. It played a major role in the inflation of the property bubble, pushing the cost of basic housing needs beyond affordability for ordinary people particularly in the years from 2003 to 2007 when...