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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: Mr. Mel Reynolds says there is enough land in this country to build at least 100,000 houses. This cannot be a case of simply telling the House that this will be looked at.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: We want to see it start and being driven now.

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: I welcome the INMO members in the Gallery and I wish to put on record my full support for them and the members of the PNA, who I am absolutely sure do not have a light-minded attitude to the effects their actions will have on patient care and the ongoing crisis in our health service. This is reflected, as has been said already, in the fact that this is only the second time in 100 years that...

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: Pay them.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: The commission of investigation into the 14 mother and baby homes - the term "homes" in that context sticks in my throat - and four county homes was due to report last February. Time was extended on the basis of the workload involved in investigating these institutions. Last year's interim report stated that the issues of living conditions, mortality rates, post-mortem practices, vaccine...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for her reply. However, it has not answered any of our questions fully. The Minister has said that she met Judge Yvonne Murphy last week "to discuss the request for the extension of the timeframe for the delivery of the commission's reports and to ensure [she] had a full understanding of the progress to date and the basis for the additional time being requested." When...

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: I am pleased that this Bill has been introduced. I thank Deputy Niall Collins for introducing it. I also congratulate Senator Black who initiated it and the Senators who passed it in the Seanad last year. I thank those campaigners outside the Dáil who put in a huge amount of work to highlight it. It is important to state what the Bill calls for. It has been and no doubt will be...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: Last week on Leaders' Questions I described the position of a 58 year old woman working 39 hours per week at an Alzheimer's disease support centre. She applied to go on the housing list a number of years ago but she earned too much and was above the cap for the Dublin City Council list. She was in rented accommodation for 14 years and in October she and her partner, a 64 year old man, found...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: According to the weather forecast temperatures will drop to between 0oC and -3oC over the next two days and snow and freezing conditions are also possible. Has the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, engaged with homeless agencies and the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive on a national contingency plan to get rough sleepers off the streets and is there sufficient accommodation available for them?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: 107. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if medals for bravery will be awarded to persons (details supplied) in respect of the siege of Jadotville. [4059/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has spent on correspondence issued through its legal team to organisations (details supplied) on union recognition. [3825/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children discharged from hospital accident and emergency departments to no fixed abode (details supplied) in 2018, by hospital in tabular form [3932/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Accommodation Provision (31 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: Given the weekend weather forecast, it immediately sprang to my mind that 160 people are sleeping rough on the streets. On Tuesday morning I put down a Topical Issue matter on this issue but it was not accepted for debate, so I raised it on the Order of Business on Tuesday. The Minister said he had been alerted that the cold weather initiative, which is ongoing since November, had been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Accommodation Provision (31 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: If the 158 rough sleepers said tonight that they need emergency beds, is there capacity in the system to provide them? That is a simple question. The Minister of State commented on the claims by the Inner City Helping Homeless group. Its lead team made contact by phone on four separate occasions and was told no bed was available. It is not right to dismiss the claims of such a group...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (31 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be no delay to a primary care centre (details supplied) in Dublin 12 in view of the new national children's hospital budget overrun. [4850/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the delegates for appearing before the committee. I think the first case of bogus self-employment was taken to the then Department of Social Welfare in 1993 by couriers and concerned the classification of their job; therefore, the issue has been in the ether for nearly 26 years. It moved across a cross-section of workers in the construction industry from 2000 onwards. The reason we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: The delegates covered the main areas that we really need to cover. We hope to bring in workers from the English language schools and other areas too to delve into the matter. We will come up with something to allow the committee to bring forward legislation. In particular, the issue of company law about which Mr. O'Hanlon spoke in the context of pilots is one at which we will also have to...

JobPath Programme: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2019)

Joan Collins: I support the motion and I welcome the debate on JobPath. The fact the Comptroller and Auditor General, Seamus McCarthy, told a committee meeting that only 7% were still employed after 12 months in the Seetec and Turas Nua service speaks for itself. It was also reported that 9% of people, that is, 17,100 people, were still in work after 52 weeks. The figure after 26 weeks is 14%, 12% after...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Trade Union Recognition (5 Feb 2019)

Joan Collins: 402. To ask the Minister for Health the reason why the HSE is not recognising a union (details supplied). [5441/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Joan Collins: 122. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce exclusion zones around facilities which are providing abortion services. [5129/19]