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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 436. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [37537/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her office has made no contact with the UN special rapporteur, Mr. Pablo de Greiff, for the specific purpose of inviting him here to play a role with the mother and baby home survivors. [37221/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify her remarks in February 2019 in which she stated that she expected an invitation to be issued to the UN special rapporteur, Mr. Pablo de Greiff in the coming days. [37222/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (17 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of talks between her Department and the unions representing community employment supervisors and their pensions. [37184/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of cost-rental plans on a site (details supplied). [37951/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I support the point made by Deputy O'Brien. The grouping of questions is not helpful. My specific question concerned the cost rental model in St. Michael's Estate. On 20 February this year, Deputy John Curran put down a question about the off balance sheet costs of cost rental accommodation. The Minister replied that the urban design development framework plan for St. Michael's would be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: It is impossible. Does the Minister know when that plan will be brought forward? It has been over a year since he came to St. Michael's Estate to launch the cost rental model there and I would like to see what is happening and for the Minister to report back. It has gone too far. Regarding affordable housing, it has been said that prices for a two-bedroom house in O'Devaney Gardens...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for his reply. At least, it is moving along a bit. I also think it is too slow. We are talking about 330 homes in St. Michael's Estate, which would add to us having rents that could be affordable. I am looking forward to seeing that model. The Minister said that Dublin City Council informed him that no home in the affordable housing scheme in O'Devaney Gardens...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the choice base letting scheme works (details supplied); the way in which homes are allocated; and the grounds on which homes are allocated. [37709/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the original policy on the land initiative of public lands will be revised in view of the fact that a site (details supplied) has been approved for cost rental and the disposal of the lands is on the Dublin City Council agenda for the October 2019 council meeting. [37701/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that, in the midst of a housing crisis, Dublin City Council management, under direction from land initiative policy, has allowed the privatisation of 70% of public lands at a location (details supplied) which leaves less public housing on the site than in the 1950s. [37638/19]

Climate Change: Statements (19 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: Although there are not many of us here now, I hope to see everybody who works in the Dáil, Deputies and public representatives out on the streets tomorrow demonstrating with the young people. It starts at the Custom House at 12 noon. It is part of a worldwide movement to keep pressure on governments to change the way they implement climate change strategies. In explaining the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for the insight into their community. From the comment made by Ms Connors I picked up that the contributors have very little confidence that this will make any difference to the lives of Travellers in Ireland. I understand that because at a previous meeting, a group from Cork made the point that very good recommendations were made in the task force report in 1996 to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: How can we bring about that change? This has been raised in all the reports published in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and in the task force reports. What can we do to ensure there is change at the top level, which is where it is driven? However, nothing has changed in terms of the education of children and so on. I want feedback from the witnesses about what we need to do.

Special Needs Education Places: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: Like many Deputies, it breaks my heart when I meet parents who tell me about problems such as fighting for an assessment of needs and services for their children. I have been following up regarding CHO 7, the area covering south Dublin, Kildare and west Wicklow, and the school age team. One of the replies I received was that there are 298 children on the Dublin south west school age team...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will comply with the legal directions issued to her by the Data Protection Commission regarding the public services card. [38795/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to initiate her amendment to the Payment of Wages Act 1991 to deal with the issue of tip theft. [38796/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the public services card will not expire on a particular date after it has been issued and reapplied for by a person. [38804/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I will give the Minister some statistics which are truly shocking and a real indictment on our society. Some 760,000 people, one in six people and one in four children in the State, are living below the official poverty line. The poverty line is an income 60% below the median €27,000 a year, therefore, an income of €13,000 or less puts one below the poverty line. Some 110,000...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for his reply. The figures I read out are from Society of St. Vincent De Paul, representatives of which appeared before the Joint Committee on Employment and Social Protection this morning for a prebudget meeting. Those figures are stark. The Minister mentioned a few projects and initiatives that have been introduced but they are not enough. What we need over the next...