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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: We have experienced that. Someone who wrote Coolock as an address on a job application in the 1970s would not even be considered.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak on this Private Members' Bill. Like other speakers, I would not block a Bill that is trying to deal with this specific area but I am concerned that it does not address the fundamental issues facing first-time buyers and it will not make a difference to them. I will follow on from what Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan said about the UN special...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (27 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no primary healthcare team for the Traveller community in Dublin 10 and specifically for the Labre Park halting site; if the possibility of providing a team will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49321/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: The Irish National Teachers Organisation has welcomed the reduction in class sizes in almost every school in the country. It has made the point that there has been a failure to reduce class sizes in DEIS band 1 schools. Will the Minister consider reducing class sizes in those schools on a pro ratabasis compared with every other school? Has the Minister received the upcoming report on class...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council recently signed an agreement with a German cuckoo fund called Realis which will see the council paying between €2,000 and €3,000 per unit for a 25-year lease on 87 apartments. The price of each of these apartments was in excess of €630,000. This is the reality of the housing policy of the Government and the Minister. It is...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: That would be a start.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Joint Labour Committees (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 96. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she plans to take to expand the joint labour committees for workers in low-paid industries in view of a Bill to address the issue recently being voted down in Seanad Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50362/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when INIS will address the backlog of cases that have been put on hold awaiting the outcome of a decision (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49787/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme Eligibility (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 483. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 6 February 2019, if consideration has been given to homes receiving a second round of works under the warmth and well-being scheme as stated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49851/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: Time is short. I have two questions. A number of people have identified the fact that the visiting teachers were important and played a key role in liaising with families, with getting children into school and then progressing them. How much has the loss of those visiting teachers impacted on children from the community in the form of not attending school, dropping out early and not going...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Allowance Applications Waiting Times (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to reduce the waiting times to process disability allowance applications in view of the fact that it appears the waiting times have gone up recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50356/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Allowance Applications Waiting Times (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: This question follows on from the previous question. Staff in my constituency office have asked me to raise this issue with the Minister because they have noticed recently, particularly with respect to carer's allowance and disability allowance, that waiting times for processing applications have increased. From the date that all the requested information is provided, it can take anything...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Allowance Applications Waiting Times (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: I take on board what the Minister says. Previously, when the waiting time was 17 weeks and possibly more, changes were made and the Minister provided additional resources. However, my staff are saying there seem to be a drop-off and are asking the reason for that. We are having no problem with illness benefit applications. They seem to be going through and the same applies to jobseeker's...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Waiting Times (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps taken to reduce the waiting times to process carer’s allowance applications in view of the fact that it appears the waiting times have gone up recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50355/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to deal with bogus self-employment which could be costing the State as much as €1 billion per annum. [50359/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Education Welfare Service Staff (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 216. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of educational welfare officer positions nationwide that need to be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50477/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Education Welfare Service Staff (4 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 217. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason Dublin 12 has been without an educational welfare officer for the past six months; and the actions being taken to rectify the matter. [50478/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: During the debate on the motion of no confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, and his housing policy, I had another reason for expressing no confidence in him. Three years ago, a Bill passed Second Stage in this House without opposition, the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016, which...