Parliamentary questions

Regeneration Projects Funding

Joan Collins

592. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total allocation of funding to be provided by his Department to each regeneration project in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24708/15]

Tax Code

Joan Collins

83. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance if he agrees that funds raised to support the health service should be subject to value added tax; if not, if he will consider making provision in the budget to exclude moneys provided by charitable organisations (details supplied), particularly moneys used to support public services, from being subject to value added tax in order that all moneys go into these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24095/15]

Beit Collection

Joan Collins

278. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will intervene to avoid the loss of artworks to Ireland and to intervene in the sale of five masterpieces (details supplied) left in trust for the benefit of the Irish people by Sir Alfred and Lady Beit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23975/15]

Banking Sector Redundancies

Joan Collins

277. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Allied Irish Banks; if he will, as representative of the bank's principal shareholder, request the bank's senior management not to proceed with this plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23930/15]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Joan Collins

742. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the case of a young person (details supplied) regarding resource hours. [23827/15]

Disability Services Funding

Joan Collins

764. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the future funding and status of the Dublin 12 disability mainstream access project (details supplied); and if he will provide an update on whether a workable solution has been found. [23266/15]

Rights of the Child

Joan Collins

135. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Ireland has ratified the second optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; if not, when the Government plans to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22818/15]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Joan Collins

797. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 21 April 2015, if he will provide an update (details supplied). [22077/15]

Housing Assistance Payments Implementation

Joan Collins

172. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the housing assistance payment scheme is now being operated by Dublin City Council; if the scheme is open to all housing applicants in Dublin city; and if he will provide a copy of the statutory regulation provided to Dublin City Council regarding the implementation of scheme. [21134/15]

Environmental Protection Agency Funding

Joan Collins

501. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that has been spent and is anticipated to be spent on the Environmental Protection Agency unconventional gas exploration and extraction research programme; and the amount of same that is to be strive funding, central Government funding and Northern Irish Government funding. [19699/15]

Prospecting Licences

Joan Collins

517. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of finances lost to his Department due to his predecessor's decision not to require the holding of petroleum prospecting licences, contrary to the Licensing Terms for Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Development and Production 2007, which formed part of the terms and conditions of the onshore options licences, granted in 2011, to companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19607/15]

Waste Management Regulations

Joan Collins

3. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of the investigation into the need for regulation in the waste management industry. [18466/15]

Employment Rights

Joan Collins

5. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce legislation to outlaw zero-hour and minimum-hour contracts. [18469/15]

National Minimum Wage

Joan Collins

7. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the living wage, and that the introduction of a living wage of at least €11.45 per hour is essential to begin to address the inequality in our society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18408/15]

Industrial Relations

Joan Collins

23. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm that the July 2015 deadline for the introduction of robust collective bargaining legislation is still on track; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18359/15]

Construction Contracts

Joan Collins

25. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the appointment of the chairman for the panel of adjudicators will go before the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation; when the Construction Contracts Act 2013 will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18358/15]

Rent Supplement Scheme Payments

Joan Collins

3. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that the cap on rent allowance is cognisant of the recent and ongoing increases in rental rates, particularly in the Dublin area. [17540/15]

Gender Recognition

Joan Collins

8. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the upcoming Gender Recognition Bill; that the proposed criteria for 16 and 17 year olds to access the legislation is onerous, as it requires parental consent, letters from two physicians and a court order; that it will also leave transsexual and intersex individuals under the age of 16 in legal limbo; and her plans to deal with these issues. [17347/15]

Rent Supplement Scheme Administration

Joan Collins

36. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the delays in processing applications for rent allowance, in particular for residents of Dublin South Central; and the reason that requests for additional information from her Department automatically result in an application being put to the bottom of the processing pile. [17344/15]

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Joan Collins

50. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the anomaly whereby the spouse of a person who dies while on a community employment scheme does not receive six weeks' payment, but the spouse of someone who dies while on other payments does. [17343/15]

Illness Benefit Eligibility

Joan Collins

54. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason those on the widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pensions are not entitled to illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17323/15]

Social Welfare Fraud Cost

Joan Collins

67. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the use of press releases to provide an unclear picture of the levels of actual fraud in her Department. [17541/15]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

377. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 21 January 2015 in relation to Galway University Hospital, if any scoliosis patients have received the surgery they require from that list. [17740/15]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

414. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will refer nine patients (details supplied) waiting for operations to a private hospital for their surgery, if the Health Service Executive cannot or will not operate on them. [17834/15]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Joan Collins

415. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 565 of 14 January 2015, if he will provide an update on the appointment of an orthopaedic surgeon, anaesthetist and support staff to maximise utilisation of available theatre sessions in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin 12, in view of the fact that recruitment should have been resourced by March 2015; and if he will provide a breakdown of the waiting list, as of 1 May 2015, with no dates, and a breakdown of the figures for procedures. [17841/15]

Petroleum and Gas Exploration

Joan Collins

578. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a company's failure to drill a well in County Fermanagh in 2014 (details supplied) invalidates its current application for a petroleum exploration licence, in view of the fact that it constitutes a failure to fulfil its work programme in violation of the terms of the licensing option, and section 13 of the licensing terms for offshore oil and gas exploration, development and production of 2007. [17835/15]

EU Directives

Joan Collins

147. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the public consultation carried out in 2014 in relation to the transposition of new European Union guidelines on public procurement, including an update on whether and when public submissions will be made publicly available. [16672/15]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Joan Collins

494. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the availability of a step-down bed in the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [15533/15]

Regeneration Projects Funding

Joan Collins

627. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total allocation of funding to be provided by his Department to each regeneration project in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15350/15]

Mental Health Services Provision

Joan Collins

7. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views regarding the mental health service provision in the primary care unit in Cherry Orchard, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10. [14640/15]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

32. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the long delays for patients awaiting spinal surgery at Galway University Hospital. [14641/15]

Education and Training Boards Staff

Joan Collins

675. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the redundancies in January 2015 made by the Education and Training Board of four local training initiative co-ordinators and assistant co-ordinators who worked in the Saint John Bosco Youth Centre in Drimnagh in Dublin 12, when they will receive their enhanced redundancy payments. [13891/15]

Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding

Joan Collins

794. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the future funding and status of the Dublin 12 Disability Mainstream Access Project (details supplied). [14452/15]

Proposed Legislation

Joan Collins

91. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to her statements that the person selling the sexual service will not be subject to an offence under the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2014, her plans to repeal sections 7, 8 and 11 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 as applied to persons selling sexual services. [13543/15]

Scheme to Support National Organisations

Joan Collins

173. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the review by Pobal and the review by his Department into the funding of the neurological charities under the scheme to support national organisations. [13442/15]

Departmental Funding

Joan Collins

177. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the funding to the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13466/15]

Hare Coursing Regulation

Joan Collins

171. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will initiate a new investigation and-or review into hare coursing, with a view to removing its exemption from prohibition under the Animal Health and Welfare Acts, and to bring Ireland into line with neighbouring jurisdictions, where it has criminal status (details supplied). [10192/15]

Local Authority Staff Data

Joan Collins

643. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of senior executive engineers and analogous, including acting-up and temporary, employed in each level 5 local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12927/15]

Local Authority Staff Data

Joan Collins

649. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of local authority staff who are 100% externally funded by his Department, in each regeneration project in the State; the departmental funding provided to cover the payment of staff; the total departmental funding to be provided, in respect of each such project in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12987/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

475. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made on the provision of an administrative scheme, under her Department, to assist Magdalen laundries survivors in availing of complementary therapies. [11581/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

476. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of liaison officers that will be employed to assist the Magdalen laundries survivors in understanding their entitlements; and if the liaison officers will operate centrally from her Department or on a local basis. [11586/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

477. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the way membership of the advisory body to the dedicated unit will be decided. [11587/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

478. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when the dedicated unit will be established. [11594/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

479. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the dedicated unit will provide personal advocacy services to women who are living in institutional settings or in the care of the relevant religious congregations. [11595/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

480. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when the consultation process for the setting up of the dedicated unit will begin. [11597/15]

Services for People with Disabilities

Joan Collins

509. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there has been no response to date to the five priorities (details supplied) from the Irish Deaf Society made to her in November 2013 and a commitment from her to consider the priorities with a response by spring 2014. [11990/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

542. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the Magdalen survivors will receive their enhanced medical cards. [11582/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

543. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the application process for the enhanced medical cards for Magdalen survivors. [11583/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

544. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the Magdalen survivors will receive a guide to their enhanced medical card. [11584/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

545. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a complaints and appeals process will be put in place for Magdalen survivors availing of the enhanced medical card scheme. [11589/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

546. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his Department will contact all general practitioners, public and private, hospitals and other relevant health service providers of Magdalen survivors entitlements under the enhanced medical card. [11590/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

547. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the measures being taken to ensure that Magdalen survivors do not have to resolve any difficulties with the enhanced medical card scheme or explain their entitlements to health care professionals. [11591/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

548. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when health care services do not have the facility to record enhanced medical cards, if cardholders will be reimbursed in the same manner as Health (Amendment) Act cardholders. [11593/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

549. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the administrative arrangements for Magdalen survivors living overseas. [11598/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

550. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive has contacted the health service providers in each of the countries where Magdalen survivors are known to be living. [11599/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

551. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if guides will be made available to Magdalen survivors living overseas to assist them in understanding their entitlements under the administrative arrangements. [11600/15]

Hospital Appointments Status

Joan Collins

642. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo cannot access scoliosis surgery in Galway University Hospital; if he will arrange immediate alternative surgery for this patient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11579/15]

Departmental Funding

Joan Collins

873. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to extend funding in respect of organisations (details supplied), following the two reviews that took place; and when he will make the announcement. [11333/15]

Local Authority Staff Data

Joan Collins

887. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of administrative officers, excluding SEE and analogous but including acting-up and temporary, employed in each level 5 local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11528/15]

Local Authority Finances

Joan Collins

888. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council has borrowings in excess of €23 million, which it is only capable of paying the interest on; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the council is incapable of paying off any of the principal; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department approved the loans in question; if his Department will now take responsibility for the financial difficulties of the council and provide a financial bailout to assist the council in reducing its debts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11529/15]

Exploration Licences Applications

Joan Collins

942. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the applications for onshore petroleum exploration licences can be revoked by his Department, before the Environmental Protection Agency study findings are reported; and if so, the grounds that would lead to invalidation of those applications and their subsequent dismissal by his Department. [11386/15]

Languages Programme

Joan Collins

1006. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the mechanisms the Government is implementing to promote the recognition of the Irish sign language, as stated in the programme for Government. [11558/15]

One-Parent Family Payment Payments

Joan Collins

184. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm the figures on the discontinuation of the one-parent family payment are correct, as this would affect lone parents in work at present (details supplied). [10490/15]

Community Development Projects

Joan Collins

534. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government now that the tendering process for the social inclusion and community activation programme is completed, his views regarding the future of the Cherry Orchard Equine Centre, Dublin 10; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10292/15]

Redundancy Payments

Joan Collins

550. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if enhanced redundancy packages will be made available in respect of employees (details supplied). [10556/15]

Community Development Projects

Joan Collins

551. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a centre (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will receive interim funding post-31 March 2015. [10557/15]

Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding

Joan Collins

553. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that a 13% cut to the social inclusion and community activation programme budget on the back of successive cuts of 33% (details supplied), over the past four years will continue to have a detrimental impact on the communities in Lot 2.4, Canals, Rathmines, Pembroke, and that community development focuses on building relationships, and working in solidarity with communities; his views on the dismantling of this sector, and the long-term negative implications this will have on those who are voiceless in our communities. [10588/15]

Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding

Joan Collins

554. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 4 March 2015, if he will provide clarity on statements made, where it was stated that €600,000 was being made available to Dublin Central groups outside the local and community development programme and social inclusion and community activation programme budgets; the uses for this funding and the groups that will benefit; the fund that this money is being made available from; if other unsuccessful tenderers, including Rathmines Pembroke Community Partnership, will be provided with similar funding outside of the tendering process. [10589/15]

Homeless Accommodation Provision

Joan Collins

29. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the special summit on homelessness, in December 2014, particularly the issue of the emergency bed situation and the Nite Café; if there are enough; if they are full at night; and if there is a need for extra beds, particularly single room emergency beds. [8922/15]

Prisoner Releases

Joan Collins

323. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm that prisoners in Mountjoy prison, or Wheatfield prison, were released prematurely to make room for the four community activists who were jailed for contempt of court on 19 and 20 February 2015. [9028/15]

Homeless Accommodation Provision

Joan Collins

545. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of families currently in emergency accommodation, that is, hotels or hostels; and the number that have been housed, since 4 December 2014. [8912/15]

Homelessness Strategy

Joan Collins

546. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the vacant 655 units that were identified in the homelessness summit, held December 2014, that have been provided and made available. [8916/15]

Homelessness Strategy

Joan Collins

547. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of Dublin City Council's 657 vacant properties that were scheduled for demolition in the homelessness summit strategy, held in December 2014, that have been refurbished; and if he will identify these properties. [8919/15]

NAMA Social Housing Provision

Joan Collins

550. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the 1,046 vacant properties under the National Asset Management Agency's remit that have been brought into productive use in the Dublin City Council area to date. [8923/15]

Local Authority Staff Data

Joan Collins

562. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of public sector workers employed in the maintenance section of Fingal County Council in 2008; and in 2014; his views on lifting the moratorium on recruitment, in this area; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5555/15]

Local Authority Staff Data

Joan Collins

563. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of public sector workers employed in the maintenance section of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in 2008 and in 2014; his views on lifting the moratorium on recruitment in this area; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5556/15]

Local Authority Staff Data

Joan Collins

564. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of workers employed in the maintenance section of South Dublin County Council in 2008 and in 2014; his views on lifting the moratorium on recruitment in this area; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5557/15]

Local Authority Staff Data

Joan Collins

565. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of public sector workers employed in the maintenance section of Dublin City Council in 2008 and in 2014; his views on lifting the moratorium on recruitment in this area; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5602/15]

Mental Health Services Provision

Joan Collins

496. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if counselling services are provided, free of charge, as part of the public mental health service, in view of the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10. [8274/15]

Primary Care Centres Provision

Joan Collins

497. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when the building of a primary health care centre will commence, consisting of the health centre, the Mother McCauley centre and the Alzheimer's centre on Curlew Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12; and when the primary care unit will commence operation. [8297/15]

Hospital Appointments Status

Joan Collins

183. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon cannot access scoliosis surgery in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7353/15]

Departmental Investigations

Joan Collins

13. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the investigation into the waste management industry. [5837/15]

Public Sector Staff Recruitment

Joan Collins

3. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the moratorium in recruitment in the public sector; the areas in which it has been lifted; and any future planned lifting of the moratorium, for example, social workers, maintenance sections of local authorities and so on. [5862/15]

Pension Levy

Joan Collins

29. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views as to the amount that has been collected annually from the pension levy imposed on public sector workers; and his plans on revising this levy as part of the Haddington Road agreement regarding negotiations. [5603/15]

Central Bank of Ireland

Joan Collins

239. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance the new Central Bank of Ireland's loan-to-value and loan-to-income limits (details supplied). [6113/15]

One-Parent Family Payment Payments

Joan Collins

32. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the planned changes to one-parent family payments due to be implemented in July 2015. [4772/15]

Social Welfare Appeals

Joan Collins

33. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the way her Department is addressing the high number of incorrect decisions at first instance by Department officials which have led to the high rate of 55% overturned on appeal. [4710/15]

Probation and Welfare Service Staff

Joan Collins

93. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality under the provisions of the employment control framework, the specific minimum and maximum numbers of positions in each grade for the Probation and Welfare Service of probation officers, senior probation officers, assistant principal probation officers-regional managers and clerical officers. [5145/15]

Sale of Aer Lingus

Joan Collins

144. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Governments position on International Airlines Group's €1.3 billion takeover bid of Aer Lingus. [4336/15]

Residential Institutions

Joan Collins

408. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the differences there are between the HAA card and the medical support in the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [4386/15]

School Accommodation

Joan Collins

545. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will liaise with the Office of Public Works in order to have temporary premises in place for the summer in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [4932/15]

Broadband Service Provision

Joan Collins

546. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a tender will be allocated in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8; when the broadband speed will be updated and improved; when the PDST will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4936/15]

Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme

Joan Collins

19. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will meet with the staff in Cherry Orchard equine centre and see the vital work they do in the Ballyfermot community (details supplied). [3438/15]

Joan Collins

145. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her views with regard to the primary online database of students personal public service numbers and other personal information; the reason there is a need for a centralisation of children's personal information online; who has access and the reason the information is being held until these students are 30 years of age. [3369/15]

Water Charges Administration

Joan Collins

518. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of late payment charge-dwellings under the Water Services Bill 2014, when that late payment charge comes into effect if a customer has not entered into a payment plan with Irish Water. [3563/15]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

3. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on waiting lists at Cappagh Hospital, Dublin, in respect of knee replacement surgery; if he will provide a breakdown of the length of time patients are waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2437/15]

Nursing Home Beds Data

Joan Collins

5. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who have accessed beds in nursing homes from hospitals with the €25 million extra funding for the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2438/15]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

27. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 has no date for an operation in view of being deemed by the orthopaedic surgeon as an urgent case, having iron deficiency anaemia, pseudogout and extremely high platelets, and whose health is deteriorating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2360/15]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

55. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo cannot access scoliosis surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2361/15]

Accident and Emergency Departments

Joan Collins

71. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the report from the emergency task force on the crises in emergency departments here; the measures that will be put in place to resolve the crises in the short and long term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2359/15]