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Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Joan Collins: I raise the matter of capacity as we have seen how hospitals have had to deal with people getting very ill from Covid-19 and going into intensive care units, etc. We still have our need for ordinary surgeries, consultations and treatment of ill people so what are the HSE and the Minister doing in this respect? Will the Minister give us a breakdown of the current position? It was...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (28 Jul 2020)

Joan Collins: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if clarification will be provided for a person (details supplied) regarding an extension of the 12-month ability to drive on an American driver licence. [18290/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jul 2020)

Joan Collins: A number of weeks ago I raised the concern of the 12 patients aged under 18 awaiting Spinraza. I knew the Taoiseach would be concerned because he was so involved in the campaign last year. I have not heard anything back from his office. I was hoping that he would respond positively. I got a reply to a parliamentary question I tabled along with other Deputies, which stated Children's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jul 2020)

Joan Collins: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be sanctioned as an ASD specific school for children with complex needs from five years of age and older. [19308/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jul 2020)

Joan Collins: 1199. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 756 of 21 July 2020, his views on the substance of the question submitted regarding his awareness of the distribution of free face masks in Luxembourg; and his plans to introduce a similar scheme to provide access to free face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic [20111/20]

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (2 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: The overwhelming majority of people have behaved responsibly in combating this deadly virus because people know what it means and what it is. Before the restrictions came in, older people and people with respiratory illnesses were staying in their homes because they knew that was the right thing to do. They did not have to be told in many instances and that was commented on in the lead-up...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: I seek clarity from the Ceann Comhairle. In the previous two sessions, the Chair allowed questions and if a Deputy left time for the Minister to reply, the Minister replied.

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: There are three questions I want to ask.

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: If the Minister of State would reply, it would be good. First, I welcome that there is a dedicated Minister of State and I wish Deputy Madigan well. The ball is very much in the Minister of State's court. It is a big task to take on. It is an area where so many families and children have been let down by the State to such an extent that the children had to go to the courts to try to...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: All the Deputies who represent Dublin South Central have asked for a meeting with the Minister of State about setting up Scoil Colm in Crumlin as an autism special school. Will she meet us? The parents' campaign has also sought a meeting with her. Everyone would be pleased to know that she will meet us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: I also wish to raise the issue of the Debenhams workers, because I do not think we got an answer that we can stand by. Would the Taoiseach condemn the arrests of the workers this morning? Is it now the policy of the gardaí to arrest workers engaging in peaceful industrial action? To my knowledge, this has never happened before. Occupations have been broken up and workers have been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: The Duffy Cahill report was published in March 2016. We had 2017, 2018 , 2019 and we are now in 2020. The Taoiseach is correct that those workers have been a long time on the picket line - 150 days. When people were told to cocoon at the very start of the restrictions, those workers had to go out there and protect the shop's stock so that it would not be sold off above their heads. They...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: No, but we managed to do it-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: Exactly. We have to do this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: Four years later-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Travel Trade Sector (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will meet with an association (details supplied) to resolve an issue about the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [21525/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a communication will be provided from her Department or the NCSE in relation to the case of a school (details supplied) which was offered another school to take over and expand educational services. [21283/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Creation (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce the supports for employment initiatives for persons with hearing loss or visual impairment as announced in January 2020 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21218/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a self-employed person (details supplied) is not being assessed for the pandemic unemployment payment on their 2018 earnings. [21155/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding fortnightly social welfare payments. [21373/20]