Parliamentary questions

Rent Supplement Scheme Applications

Joan Collins

198. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will review a matter regarding rent supplement in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [2543/15]

Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding

Joan Collins

568. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a meeting with a group (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will be facilitated in view of an earlier indication by him to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2773/15]

Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding

Joan Collins

569. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reverse the cut of a further 6.5% in the funding of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 10. [2776/15]

Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding

Joan Collins

570. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding funding to a group (details supplied) in Dublin 10 in view of verbal assurances given by an officer in his Department; if the group will receive interim funding after 31 March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2778/15]

Commissions of Investigation

Joan Collins

8. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is including the historical case of persons (details supplied) in the terms of reference for the commission of investigation into the Guerin report. [1369/15]

Commissions of Investigation

Joan Collins

14. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the cases included in the commission of investigation and the procedure to add cases into the investigation into the Guerin report. [1368/15]

Animal Welfare Expenditure

Joan Collins

290. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the application made by friends of Seal Rescue Ireland for funding made under the animal welfare scheme; and when Seal Rescue Ireland will be made aware of funding to keep this important facility for injured marine wildlife open. [49666/14]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

563. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm of the 79 patients waiting more than nine months for various procedures including spinal assessment, cast change, full spinal surgery, insertion of growing rods and lengthening of growing rods, the number who have undergone their procedures; and the number of the 103 patients waiting more than six months who have had their procedures. [49645/14]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

564. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of the 31 patients who had planned dates, as of 20 November 2014, for procedures including spinal assessment, cast change, full spinal surgery, and insertion of growing and lengthening rods, who have had their procedures. [49646/14]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

565. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of spinal cases, that is, scoliosis it has been agreed to carry out in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin 12 as part of its service level agreement for 2015; and if the agreed SLA includes patients waiting more than nine and six months as of 20 November 2014. [49647/14]

Water Services Funding

Joan Collins

893. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding historic funding to local authorities for water services; the amount of money that was allocated on an annual basis to local authorities from 2001 to 2013, inclusive; the way this money was sourced; and the way it was it allocated to local authorities. [49667/14]

Local Authority Functions

Joan Collins

247. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under section 134 of the Local Government Act 2001, as amended by section 49 of the Local Government Act 2014, in an election year, the local authority corporate plan must be prepared and brought before the council for consideration within six months of the annual general meeting; if it is the responsibility and the duty of the policy group and of the chief executive to take all such steps as are necessary to ensure that the corporate plan is submitted to the elected council for approval within the specified period; when the corporate plan is not submitted within the specified period in accordance with section 134 (2) of the Act, is the cathaoirleach of a council obliged to convene a special meeting within 14 days of the expiration of the specified period; if the cathaoirleach and the chief executive are obliged to make a joint submission to the elected council at the said special meeting outlining the steps that will be taken to ensure its completion; when it is proposed to submit the corporate plan to the elected council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48750/14]

Crime Data

Joan Collins

360. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 25 November 2014, if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of arrests made for prostitution offences between the years 2008 and 2014 by offence type, county, gender and age group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47845/14]

Local Authority Funding

Joan Collins

421. 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 been incurring revenue deficits over the past six years and that the cumulative revenue debt now stands at €19.67 million while the council's long-term debt is in excess of €120 million; if his Department has received the council's long-term financial plan which the Department asked to be submitted on or before 24 January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46964/14]

Local Authority Expenditure

Joan Collins

423. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that Sligo County Council in its budget for 2015 has included a sum of €50,000 to help fund a golf tournament; if it is the intention of his Department to provide matching funds for the event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47052/14]

Public Transport

Joan Collins

32. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the privatisation of publicly owned bus services and in view of the debacle that was Greyhound, his views that the transfer of undertakings directive, TUPE, is not adequate protection for Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann workers who will be transferred to private operators because of the Government and National Transport Authority decision to privatise 10% of the bus market. [46335/14]

Local Authority Housing Data

Joan Collins

185. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of voids there were in each local authority in 2013 and to date in 2014; the number that have been allocated to tenants in 2013 and to date in 2014; the number of voids that will be made available for tenants in 2015 and 2016. [46627/14]

Public Transport

Joan Collins

194. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will discuss the option of allowing Dublin Bus-Bus Éireann retain their current fleet-service and consider alternatives to so-called market entry for private operators. [46334/14]

Community Development Projects

Joan Collins

120. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the total funding for the LCDP in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; and a breakdown of the funds to each programme nationally. [46447/14]

Community Development Projects

Joan Collins

124. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that will be allocated for January to 31 March 2015 for the transitional period from LCDPs to SICAP; and if he will provide a breakdown for each programme nationally. [46483/14]

Community Development Projects

Joan Collins

125. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that has been allocated for January to December 2014 for the transitional period from LCDPs to SICAP; and if he will provide a breakdown for each programme nationally. [46484/14]

Unemployment Levels

Joan Collins

133. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Taoiseach the current unemployment rate for those aged under 25 in the Dublin 12 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45573/14]

Water Charges Administration

Joan Collins

552. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the EU water framework directive 2003, Article 9.4, which permits the continued exemption from water charges of the domestic sector here regarding the Water Services Act 2013. [46251/14]

Teacher Training Provision

Joan Collins

49. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an up-to-date assessment on Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht and the reason the Mary Immaculate College in Limerick feels it necessary to put on an extra Gaeilge module this semester; and the reason the cost is so high to avail of this training. [40043/14]

Community Policing

Joan Collins

261. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to meet the canal community local policing forum (details supplied). [44789/14]

Crime Data

Joan Collins

264. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of arrests made, proceedings commenced and convictions for prostitution offences between the years 2008 and 2014, by offence type, county, gender and age group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44808/14]

Ministerial Meetings

Joan Collins

299. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to meet with the canal community local policing forum (details supplied). [44790/14]

Departmental Correspondence

Joan Collins

314. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to meet with the canal community local policing forum (details supplied). [44791/14]

Local Authority Expenditure

Joan Collins

495. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has directed Sligo County Council to include measures in its annual budget to ensure that the council will return a surplus of €1 million on its revenue account for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44807/14]

Stadium Projects

Joan Collins

581. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding plans for Dalymount Park's redevelopment along with Dublin City Council, the FAI, Bohemian FC and Shelbourne FC; the stage the project is currently at; if there are firm timeframes in his Department for completion of the project of a potential ground-share between Bohemian FC and Shelbourne FC; and if funds have been earmarked for such a project at this stage [45301/14]

Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration

Joan Collins

492. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the funding to local authorities will be made to their new round of house purchase schemes (details supplied). [44458/14]

Environmental Schemes

Joan Collins

494. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the launching of the public area enhancement scheme which indicated that works undertaken with funding from the scheme should be additional to work already planned; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the largest allocation of funding in County Sligo, a sum of €10,000, was allocated to remove timber hoarding at a county council site at Connaughton Road, County Sligo; if his Department has received any information from the council as to the reason the cost of removing timber hoarding is so high; if funding from the scheme was intended to be used for such work; if the hoarding was removed and the funding expended in accordance with the scheme by the end of September 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43774/14]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

103. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason children are on waiting lists for orthopaedic surgery at the children's hospital, Dublin 12; the number of children waiting over nine months for surgery for spinal curvature; the number waiting over six months and the number waiting over three months. [42755/14]

Medical Records

Joan Collins

140. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health to set down the current location of the medical records, including the birth registers and the ​maternity ​theatre registers, for each year from 1950 to ​19​71,​​ inclusive, relating to maternity and obstetric services formerly provided at ​​St. Kevin's Hospital​ under arrangements pursuant to maternity services legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42763/14]

Health Services Provision

Joan Collins

351. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for procedures to get a tongue and lip tie diagnoses here; if he will provide a breakdown of the length of time children are on the public waiting list for surgery. [42826/14]

Health Services Provision

Joan Collins

385. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is medically equipped or has the medical knowledge to provide the detailed medical needs of people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (details supplied); if the Health Service Executive has a multidisciplinary team that can provide services to EDS sufferers; and, if not, if the HSE will fund patients under the treatment abroad scheme. [43056/14]

Tax Code

Joan Collins

17. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance his plans to abolish relevant contract tax in relation to private building contracts, particularly on Government funded projects. [39262/14]

Ministerial Meetings

Joan Collins

507. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she has not replied to the request by the Sex Workers' Alliance of Ireland that she meet with sex workers to hear their objections to proposed prostitution laws, in view of the fact that she has met with NGOs that support the proposed laws; her views that it is unacceptable to introduce legislation without first consulting with persons directly affected; and if she will meet with sex workers before any new legislation is introduced. [41300/14]

Hare Coursing

Joan Collins

18. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will prevent Mallow hare coursing meeting from going ahead on 22-23 October 2014 at its venue in County Cork on the basis that it is in breach of condition 18 of the hare coursing licence granted by her Department. [40139/14]

Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility

Joan Collins

108. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection in cases where workers lost their job due to a business closure and have been awarded a claim for unpaid wages, holiday pay and payment in lieu of notice, the mechanism that exists to allow them to claim from the social insurance fund where there is no receiver or liquidator appointed to the now closed business. [39809/14]

Social Welfare Fraud Data

Joan Collins

109. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that in future figures released by her Department that a distinction be made between fraud figures and error figures relating to payments made; her views that the general perception of the level of fraud amongst the population is tainted because of the poor reporting of the level of fraud caused by associating control figures, error figures and actual fraud figures. [39808/14]

Hare Coursing

Joan Collins

621. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for her decision to issue a licence to coursing clubs for hare coursing. [40051/14]

Construction Contracts

Joan Collins

37. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to reintroduce direct labour on building sites, particularly on Government funded projects and then roll out to private building contracts. [39262/14]

State Examinations

Joan Collins

193. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that both secondary school unions the TUI and ASTI are opposed to the introduction of the new junior certificate and that the joint managerial body has called on her to drop school based assessment for the terminal exam for a five-year period; if she will engage with the unions and the JMB, joint managerial body, and issue a public response. [39572/14]

Community Welfare Services

Joan Collins

20. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when the new community welfare office will be in place to service the Crumlin-Drimnagh-Walkinstown area (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and the location of same. [38990/14]

Community Welfare Services

Joan Collins

22. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the staffing levels that will be in place if and when a new community welfare office opens in Crumlin, Dublin 12 (details supplied). [39002/14]

Environmental Policy

Joan Collins

40. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance the tonnage of toxic chemical marker that has been added to the fuel supply which, when burned, can be released into the environment. [39020/14]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

197. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the position regarding a hip replacement operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [39193/14]

Midwifery Services

Joan Collins

199. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the position regarding resources to set up a direct helpline to assist women accessing a midwife (details supplied). [39200/14]

Road Safety

Joan Collins

371. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that driver fatigue is the cause of one in five road accidents here; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Dublin Bus currently have scheduled driving rotas whereby bus drivers on route number 7 from Donnybrook and on route number 27 from Ringsend are driving for over five hours, and in some cases for over six hours, without a break, bearing in mind that a driver who transports live animals must take a break after 4.5 hours of driving under the Road Traffic Acts, yet Dublin Bus drivers are fatigued from driving for over 5.5 hours and up to six hours in some cases. [38974/14]

IBRC Bonds

Joan Collins

51. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance the number of bonds, from the €25 billion in bonds created in February 2013 for the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and of the €3 billion in bonds created in 2012 to fund the payment of the IBRC promissory note redemption, that have been sold by the Central Bank of Ireland in 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and the predicted additional quantum to be sold by the end of 2014. [38315/14]

IBRC Bonds

Joan Collins

52. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance the position of the European Central Bank on the €25 billion in bonds created in February 2013 for the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and of the €3 billion in bonds created in 2012 to fund the payment of the IBRC promissory note redemption; if he or his Department has had recent discussions with the ECB regarding these bonds and if the ECB has expressed the view that its concerns about these bonds would be somewhat mitigated if the bonds were sold into the sovereign bond market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38316/14]

IBRC Bonds

Joan Collins

53. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance if there is no net benefit to the Exchequer if the Central Bank of Ireland disposes into the sovereign bond market the €25 billion of bonds created in February 2013 for the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and the €3 billion in bonds created in 2012; if he will fund the payment of the IBRC promissory note redemption, in view of the net surplus at the CBI remitted to the State, and that the interest paid by the CBI to the European Central Bank on these bonds is nugatory. [38323/14]

IBRC Bonds

Joan Collins

54. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance further to the ongoing legal challenge to the lawfulness of the promissory notes used to capitalise the former Anglo Irish Bank, the Irish Nationwide Building Society and the Educational Building Society the risks of the Central Bank of Ireland disposing, in advance of the conclusion of this court case, of the €25 billion in bonds created in February 2013 for the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and the €3 billion in bonds created in 2012 to fund the payment of the IBRC promissory note redemption, his views on whether it is prudent to copperfasten the legitimacy of these bonds by disposing of them in the sovereign bond market when the sole lender is the European Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38324/14]

IBRC Bonds

Joan Collins

55. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance the contact he and his Department has had with the Central Bank of Ireland regarding the disposal and in particular, the accelerated disposal, of the €25 billion in bonds created in February 2013 for the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and the €3 billion in bonds created in 2012 to fund the payment of the IBRC promissory note redemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38325/14]

Registration of Nurses

Joan Collins

110. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health in view of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland voting to increase the retention fee for 2015 from €100 to €150 (details supplied), if he is prepared for a crisis in staffing levels in the Health Service Executive in 2015 [38342/14]

Overseas Development Aid Expenditure

Joan Collins

154. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure Ireland meets its stated commitment of allocation of 0.7% of GNI to overseas aid. [38532/14]

Data Protection

Joan Collins

215. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason Irish citizens must entrust their personal data to Irish Water (details supplied); the reason citizens of this State should commit their personal data to an organisation with no independently verified information security system. [38345/14]

Insurance Coverage

Joan Collins

398. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the removal of an independent midwife's (details supplied) indemnity cover without due process. [38291/14]

One-Parent Family Payments

Joan Collins

96. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of extra places for education and training, child care places for over sevens and job placement since 2011 and 4 July 2014 directed towards parents on lone parent family payments. [30737/14]

One-Parent Family Payments

Joan Collins

399. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if paid work is seen as a route out of poverty; the reason lone parents are now financially penalised if they are in part-time work (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31514/14]

Regeneration Projects Funding

Joan Collins

530. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the detailed project appraisal including details of viability, full renovation costs and updated drawing which his Department sought from the local authority in Sligo in 2013 for the proposed refurbishment of the Gate Lodge at Doorly Park, County Sligo, in order to allow it to be used as a resource house by the local community in the Doorly Park-Martin Savage Terrace area; if his Department will make funding available for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31617/14]

Departmental Funding

Joan Collins

531. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department when launching the public area enhancement scheme indicated that works undertaken with funding from the scheme should be additional to work already planned; the level of funding provided by his Department for the scheme in County Sligo; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the largest allocation of funding in Sligo, a sum of €10,000, has been allocated to remove timber hoarding at a county council site at Connaughton Road, Sligo; if his Department has received any information from the council of the reason it is costing so much to remove the hoarding; if funding from the scheme was intended to be used for such work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31619/14]

Harbours and Piers Maintenance

Joan Collins

532. 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 will carry out dredging at the channel to Sligo Harbour and that an application from Sligo County Council for a licence under the Foreshore Act to undertake the dredging works at the harbour was submitted to his Department on 28 February 2013; when his Department will make a decision to grant the licence; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council cannot proceed to seek grant aid for the dredging until such time as the foreshore licence is granted by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31620/14]

Garda Deployment

Joan Collins

598. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to tackle child pornography exclusively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31558/14]

Medical Card Eligibility

Joan Collins

606. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health in view of the changes to the over 70s medical card criteria and a cap of €500 single and €900 couple gross weekly income this year, meaning that a number of pensioners are over the limit by €10, €20, €30 per week because they are in receipt of a State pension and a work pension, if he will introduce the same criteria for the general medical card scheme where gross earnings less PRSI and income tax, and allowable expenditure such as medical cards and house insurance and so on are taken into account for the over 70s medical card. [31177/14]

Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage

Joan Collins

634. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if a condition will be included in the review of the long-term illness scheme (details supplied). [30946/14]

Medical Card Eligibility

Joan Collins

635. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will consider the inclusion of food supplements that are needed for medication (details supplied) in the review of illnesses to be included in the medical card scheme. [30947/14]

Harbours and Piers Development

Joan Collins

808. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be considered by his Department for the redevelopment of Rosses Point Pier and Harbour in County Sligo under the Wild Atlantic Way funding programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31618/14]

Missing Persons Hotline

Joan Collins

831. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the uncertainty of funding for the new family and child service, if he will confirm that long-term funding for the 116000 service will not be affected and will remain in place. [31552/14]

Missing Persons Hotline

Joan Collins

834. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views that the advertising of the 116000 number clearly states that the public should contact this if they have information in relation to a missing child. [31603/14]

Missing Persons Hotline

Joan Collins

836. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of calls received to date to the 116000 missing child service (details supplied). [31675/14]

Missing Persons Hotline

Joan Collins

837. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of all areas where the 116000 number is being advertised; if it is being advertised in prominent places; if the number is advertised in airports, bus stations, the Luas, train stations and Dublin Bus; and if there has been a follow-up to advertise on RTE news once a month and RTE radio news once a month. [31676/14]

Medical Card Data

Joan Collins

160. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of over 70s medical card holders who have received letters regarding a review of their cards; the number of single over 70s medical card holders who have lost their card; the number of couples in receipt of the over 70s medical card who have lost their cards; and if he will provide a tabular breakdown of the number who have lost the card because they are over the limit by from €1 to €5 , €51 to €100, and €101 to €150, respectively. [30411/14]

Garda Investigations

Joan Collins

486. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will confirm that after the Health Information Quality Authority exposed foster care abuses in the Dublin north-west foster services in 2013, all the cases were forwarded to the Garda for investigation. [30321/14]

Ministerial Meetings

Joan Collins

421. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will meet the National Traveller Partnership as soon as possible (details supplied). [29775/14]

Rural Transport Programme

Joan Collins

817. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff currently employed by the rural transport programme who will be made redundant due to the restructuring of the programme into the 18 transport co-ordination units; and the redundancy package that is being offered. [29497/14]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Joan Collins

71. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Magdalen laundries and Bethany homes including Ovoca House, Westbank Orphanage and the Church of Ireland Magdalen home, Leeson Street will be included in the terms of reference of the statutory inquiry into mother and babies homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27897/14]

Harbours and Piers Maintenance

Joan Collins

124. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has received an application from Sligo County Council for funding for vessel access and harbour/pier repairs at Rosses Point, County Sligo, under his Department’s marine leisure and coastal infrastructure development programme; when a decision is expected to be made on the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27428/14]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Joan Collins

54. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for parents of multiple birth children in respect of the transition from second to third level education (details supplied). [26375/14]

Health Services

Joan Collins

169. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and the procedures his Department will put in place to treat persons who have EDS. [26164/14]

Irish Water Remit

Joan Collins

91. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water will be compelled to seek a court order to reduce a household's water supply if they do not or cannot pay the water charges. [25241/14]

Private Rented Accommodation Provision

Joan Collins

108. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify his response to landlords who have literally set a regime of apartheid citing no rent allowance or work reference required. [25242/14]

Local Authority Housing Provision

Joan Collins

448. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is making provision to allocate the necessary finance to build a minimum of 10,000 social housing units per annum to go some way to resolving the housing crisis. [22289/14]

Hospital Procedures

Joan Collins

746. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the suspension of obesity surgery at St. Vincent's hospital; the number of public patients who have had this surgery in St. Vincent's hospital and University Hospital Galway in 2014; the number of patients waiting for this surgery now; and the length of time they have been waiting. [26123/14]

Medicinal Products Availability

Joan Collins

142. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 cannot access a drug called Daxas, a very effective medication for their chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, on their medical card. [24848/14]

Rent Supplement Scheme Payments

Joan Collins

83. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the mechanism her Department has in place to respond to a family or persons facing eviction from private rented accommodation because a landlord is increasing the rent. [24276/14]

Social Welfare Benefits Applications

Joan Collins

86. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with the processing times for current social welfare payments that require a medical assessment. [24201/14]

State Pensions Reform

Joan Collins

87. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the unfair and disproportionate impact that the change to the PRSI bands has had on women's pensions and, in particular, low-paid female workers. [24126/14]

Rent Supplement Scheme Payments

Joan Collins

96. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to deal with the increases in rent prices in urban areas as they relate to persons on rent allowance. [24199/14]

Money Advice and Budgeting Service

Joan Collins

110. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the decision to end the Lough payment scheme also known as MABSlink. [24200/14]

Haddington Road Agreement Implementation

Joan Collins

273. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify if new entrants to the public sector under the Croke Park agreement were paid 10% less starting pay; under the Haddington Road agreement this 10% was to be reinstated for these new entrants in November 2013; when this increase will take effect and whether it will be backdated to November 2013. [24623/14]

Pension Provisions

Joan Collins

299. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to protect and improve the living standards of pensioners. [24277/14]

Public Sector Staff Retirements

Joan Collins

66. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of public service employees that have been forced out of employment at age 65, from 1 January 2014 to date, who do not have a contributory pension entitlement until age 66; and if any of these persons have been adversely effected by the PRSI band changes. [23988/14]

Pension Levy

Joan Collins

18. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the PRD or pension levy, introduced in 2009 via the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009, will be abolished or revised to exclude workers earning less than €60,000 per annum. [23651/14]

Private Residential Tenancies Board

Joan Collins

113. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the Private Residential Tenancies Board rent controls study, the date on which the study commenced; the specific terms of reference; the person conducting the study; and when it is due to be published. [23753/14]

Central Bank of Ireland

Joan Collins

105. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 30 April 2014 and a previous statement by the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland that it is only in the matter of setting interest rates that his national loyalties are subordinated to the supranational good of the eurozone, if he will confirm that the Governor will not accelerate the disposal of the €25 billion of sovereign bonds used to swap with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory notes in February 2013, and if such accelerated disposals place an additional net cost on the State. [22481/14]

Sovereign Debt

Joan Collins

106. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the interest to be paid by the State between February 2013 and end December 2014 on the €25 billion sovereign bonds used to swap with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory notes in February 2013. [22482/14]

Sovereign Debt

Joan Collins

107. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the interest to be paid by the State between February 2013 and end December 2014 on the portion of the €25 billion sovereign bonds used to swap with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory notes in February 2013 that have been disposed of by the Central Bank of Ireland to the bond market, including the €350 million of bonds which the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland recently stated had been disposed of in 2013. [22483/14]

Sovereign Debt

Joan Collins

108. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the net cost, taking account of the fact that any surplus at the Central Bank of Ireland is remitted to the Exchequer, to the State of the decision of the Central Bank of Ireland to dispose of the initial target of €500 million of the €25 billion of the so-called promissory note sovereign bonds before the initial target date of 31 December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22484/14]