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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (27 Feb 2019)

Joan Collins: I would definitely take up that offer. I thank the Minister of State. The Labour Court not only made a recommendation in 2008, it also made one on 16 March 2016 in respect of an employee who worked for Tipperary Hostel Limited. The Labour Court gave a ruling in that case as well. Having considered the oral and written submissions from both parties, the court recommended an ex gratiapayment...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Relations (27 Feb 2019)

Joan Collins: 92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to oppose trade talks (details supplied) and promote the Paris Agreement. [9903/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2019)

Joan Collins: I am disappointed the Minister is not here, considering the importance of the issue. I apologise on behalf of Deputy Thomas Pringle, who had a commitment elsewhere at 7 p.m. and had expected the Topical Issue debate to be at around 11 p.m. This is the third day of a strike by the National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA, branch of the Psychiatric Nurses Association,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2019)

Joan Collins: Has the Minister of State read the results of the health sector national staff survey? This question was already asked by one of the Deputies and I also asked it. In 2016, in response to a question about whether respondents had experienced bullying or harassment in their organisation in the past two years, 48% of ambulance workers said "Yes". In response to a question about whether they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2019)

Joan Collins: I have two copies. I can leave them with her.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (5 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact Brexit or a crash out will have on Irish persons who## are paying into private pensions in the United Kingdom. [10486/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug and alcohol task forces that have had a HSE review; the amount the reviews have cost to date including a task force (details supplied); and the person or body that decides if a particular task force is to be reviewed. [10383/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise some important questions on the issues of workers rights. I want to begin on a positive note with the coming into effect of the banded hours legislation this week. I have been informed by the Mandate union, which represents workers in the retail sector, that there has been a significant uptake in union membership on the basis of this legislation and a huge interest in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: They are all related.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: I have just said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: The former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, boasted that this was the best country to do business in. It is not the best country for a lot of workers facing exploitation by employers. It is extraordinary that the Government is saying that an employer decides who represents a worker in a workplace, and not the worker. It is a basic human right to be represented by a trade union of one's...

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: I move:"That Dáil Éireann: notes that:— global opium production jumped by 65 per cent from 2016 to 2017, the highest ever recorded by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and global cocaine manufacture rose by 56 per cent between 2013 and 2016, reaching its highest level ever in 2016; — illicit drugs like opium and cocaine are booming and new drugs...

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: I present this motion to provide the House with the opportunity to engage in an urgent and focused debate on the implementation by drug and alcohol task forces of the national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, which was launched in July 2017. The national drugs strategy has enjoyed cross-party support over the years with Ministers in successive Governments committed to...

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: I accept the amendment from Fianna Fáil, whose Deputies were at the briefing by CityWide the other day. It is very practical and I welcome the fact that the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, has said she would attend the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health. CityWide should also come in along with the task forces and the HSE to drill down to what is happening with the...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: The plan for the children's hospital has been on the agenda since the 1990s when a single tertiary children's hospital for Dublin was proposed by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and recommended to be built on an adult hospital site. That was three decades ago and our children are still waiting for a hospital of such a standard. In 2006, the McKinsey report recommended a single...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance if a response will issue to a query (details supplied) regarding a no-deal Brexit. [11897/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has included autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classes in its regeneration plans. [11921/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for additional classes to include autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classes has been processed; if so, when it will be finalised; and the number of classes applied for. [11922/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an intervention will be made to provide autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classes in schools in the Dublin 6, 6W and 12 areas and to protect the rights of a child to access education by invoking section 37A of the Education Act 1998 as inserted by section 8 of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 (details supplied). [11924/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Collins: 255. To ask the Minister for Health when products of a company (details supplied) will be dispensed through general practitioners or pharmacies here in order to avoid persons having to travel abroad every three months and in some instances monthly to collect the medication. [11985/19]