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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: The Christmas bonus is welcome. People have been struggling in recent years and it is a significant boost to their income at this time of the year. It will be welcomed by millions of people in the State. It is great that it has been reinstated in full. We know that many thousands of people are caring for parents or siblings in the home and the Minister referred to the "lower number of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 37. To ask the Minister for Health if staff and resources will be provided in order to resolve a situation (details supplied) regarding the Dublin south west school age team [50999/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: There are 298 children on the Dublin south west school age team's waiting list. A further 18 are awaiting transition from the early intervention team to the school age team's waiting list. The waiting time to see the school age team is 41 months which is growing monthly in circumstances in which the team does not have the capacity to safely take on additional cases. There has been no...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State. This situation has developed in the past two to three years. The team in CHO 7 has flagged the pressure it is under and the fact that waiting lists have been stagnant for the past 41 months. In reply to an earlier question I was told that there had been no movement on the waiting list in the past ten months owing to the volume of children transitioning from...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I take on board the Minister of State's point about problems in recruiting staff to fill these positions. I took up the issue initially on behalf of a young lad with severe autism in foster care. He went through the Cheeverstown House process and Abacus special school and discharged to the school age team in Chamber House in Tallaght and placed on its waiting list three years ago. He was...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: Subsection (7)(b) of the new section proposed in amendment No. 46 refers to information that should be offered to any woman who is given a diagnosis of a life-limiting condition for her son or daughter. This is a particularly important subsection as we have all heard many stories of parents who received a heart-breaking diagnosis indicating their child might not live long. One horrifyingly...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I was not going to intervene in this debate because I had made a conscious decision to let it go through, even with some of the comments made by anti-choice Deputies in the Chamber. However, I want to make the important point that a referendum was held and that one of the key issues was trusting women. The people were clear that women should not have to travel abroad to have an abortion, as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 82. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE is responding to a situation (details supplied); and his plans to deal with same [50644/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 93. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which Article 44 of the Constitution will not impact on the new national maternity hospital in St. Vincent’s University Hospital in delivering abortion healthcare services (details supplied). [50591/18]

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: The Minister has stated this is a straightforward technical Bill which will have no impact on the Exchequer. That is because the funding to meet the extra loan capacity of €200 million will not come directly from the Exchequer. While I was not as involved as Deputy Boyd Barrett in the discussion in the past year about working conditions in the film industry, I have met workers in it...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: These schemes seem to have no promise of a job upon completion. Another common practice in the industry is contractors operating as the heads of departments and dictating to employees as if they were the employer. It is no secret that some of these individuals are the ones who insist that honest and outspoken employees be blacklisted. The recent "Prime Time" report was a hatchet job....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: The Minister is not in attendance, though. I was not informed she would not be able to make it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: May I move the matter to next Tuesday?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: Then I request to do so because, while I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, I wanted a reply from the Minister.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: Will she be back by next Tuesday?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: Next Tuesday, then. Is that okay?

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank Senator Kelleher and the Civil Engagement Group and a range of political parties in the Seanad for their support for this Bill. I will make a few general points, which the Minister of State has probably heard before. He knows that the world is experiencing unprecedented displacement of people. Over 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, persecution or...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I will not take long because I covered many of the points I wished to make when I spoke on the Bill last Thursday. It is regrettable that amendments which could have had a positive impact on the industry have been ruled out of order. Whatever about the increase in the loan capacity from €300 million to €500 million, the extension of section 481 and the increase to €100...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Transport Network Safety (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the immediate installation of assault screens on all Bus Éireann services will be ensured; if his initial positive response to a union (details supplied) will be followed up; and when a Garda transport division will be established. [52299/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Transport Network Safety (12 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: In response to a letter from Dermot O'Leary of the National Bus and Rail Union, NBRU, on 26 June, the Minister stated:I have asked my Department to write to the CEO of Iarnród Éireann...and the Chairman of the Railway Safety Advisory Council...to seek their views on the adequacy of the current arrangements for combating anti-social behaviour on our rail network. I have also asked...