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

Joan Collins: One in four children live below the poverty line. That is the reality. How are we going to change that?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I raise the issue of delays in processing applications and reimbursing payments under the cross-Border directive. I will provide two examples. I know of one person who applied last December. He was advised that he had a knee problem and would have to get an operation. He got a scan done here in the South of Ireland. When he went up to the North he was told that it did not look like a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I do not know how to respond. The Minister of State's reply indicates that the Minister has known about this issue since July, yet, at the end of September and heading into October, patients are still waiting for over 90 days to be reimbursed money they borrowed. They do not have the money to pay €15,000 for a back operation. That is the cost in the hospital in the North. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: If they do not opt for it, they must wait for two and a half years here.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: It has been a failure because public patients cannot have operations here.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (1 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 358. To ask the Minister for Health if the waiting time of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and the overall waiting times for the service. [39484/19]

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: When will the Minister receive the final surveys from the schools?

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: He does not have that in his statement.

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: A small minority of school secretaries and caretakers are directly employed by the Department of Education and Skills, as mentioned already, but the majority are employed by individual school boards of management on precarious low-pay contracts. They are obliged to sign on during the summer holidays and do not get sick pay or a pension. They get paid an average of €12,000 plus. They...

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Will the matter go to the Workplace Relations Commission?

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I welcome the Minister’s response. It is a pity that it went to the wire, however. The Fórsa union, representing the secretaries, made it clear today that if the Department was not willing to go to the WRC, its members would take industrial action next week. On the last point of calling off industrial action for the talks to take place, I was informed by the secretaries that...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with Deputy Connolly. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the UN climate summit. It was yet another summit on climate change with more talk, good intentions and very little action. Both China and the EU gave no new promises beyond the Paris Accord. The US reneged on its commitments. Russia gave no new promises beyond the Paris Accord. If we are expecting any of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (3 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a report (details supplied); and the way in which he plans to implement it. [37708/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (3 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: The original question I submitted to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government noted that the report of the task force on the Travelling community of July 1995 featured 340 recommendations, of which few, if any, have been implemented. There has been no review or statutory oversight to ensure the report was implemented. What is the Minister's view on the report and how does he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (3 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I acknowledge that the report dates from 1995. I am a member of the Committee on Key Issues affecting the Travelling Community. Our first meeting was attended by cultural Traveller awareness trainees who told us that the 1995 task force report was probably the most progressive piece of analysis on Traveller issues. They made the point that it had not been implemented. I accept that matters...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (3 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Many matters have moved on. Having heard from the Traveller cultural awareness trainees to whom I refer, it seems that the community has gone backwards a great deal over the intervening 24 years. They are concerned about both culture and accommodation. Even when I was a councillor in 2004, over ten years ago, moneys allocated for Traveller accommodation were not used. That is why the 2019...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I firstly thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this debate, under considerable pressure from both the campaigning activists and Deputy Bríd Smith, who has pushed this issue for the past week and longer. If democracy is to mean anything at a time of climate crisis, an opportunity must be allowed to discuss and debate important policy developments. One of the most subtle and devious...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: A lady came into my office yesterday to talk about the fuel allowance. She explained that she had received a letter stating she had been turned down because the means test means the most household income she can have is €338. She is on invalidity allowance and her daughter is on jobseeker's allowance and they were over the threshold by €25. This woman needed that fuel...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Tax the polluters.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (8 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 400. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the number of taxis affected by this issue; and the persons or bodies which will be held responsible for same. [40684/19]