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Tue, 16 Jun 2015
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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]
Tue, 16 Jun 2015
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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]
Thu, 11 Jun 2015
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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]
Tue, 9 Jun 2015
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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]
Thu, 28 May 2015
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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]
Tue, 19 May 2015
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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]
Tue, 19 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 13 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 13 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 13 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 13 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 13 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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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]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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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]