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

Joan Collins: 730. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if workers that have an underlying illness such as COPD, immune deficiencies and so on will continue to receive the pandemic unemployment payment if they cannot return to work due to their illness. [22104/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 1060. To ask the Minister for Health if an independent inquiry will be established to investigate and furnish a report on all issues connected to the handling by the adult safeguarding and protection unit of CHO7 of the complaints of abuse of a person (details supplied). [21315/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (8 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 1259. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed reductions in prescription charges for those with medical cards that were due to take place in July 2020 will be applied. [21812/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: I will make a short contribution. I agree that we are at a crucial point and it will be one of many crucial points we will face over the next period in our war against the virus. We will have rearguard skirmishes, battles and everything else thrown into the mix over the next period of time. The Minister called it chapter 2. I do not know whether that is the correct term, but that is how...

Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: I also support the Minister of State in his new position. Many people involved with the drugs and alcohol task forces will be watching closely to see how he will deal with his brief. I am a political representative on the Canal Communities local drugs and alcohol task force and it welcomes and looks forward to working with him. During the previous term, I put down a Private Members'...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (10 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps his Department can take to facilitate a person (details supplied) in distress; and if legal or diplomatic assistance will be provided through an embassy. [23094/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Consular Services (10 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that can be taken to facilitate and assist a person (details supplied) in distress; and if legal or diplomatic assistance will be provided through an embassy. [23091/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (15 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 98. To ask the Minister for Health if weekly Covid-19 testing will be extended to categories (details supplied) that are essential to the running of the country; if he will report on the plan for track and trace; and the persons that will be targeted in view of the fact prompt test and trace results will be crucial. [23683/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (15 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 105. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the reimbursement for a cross-border directive operation has not been paid to a person (details supplied) a year after the payment was made by the patient. [23674/20]

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — the failure of the previous Government to legislate to implement the recommendations of the ‘Expert Examination and Review of Laws on the Protection of Employee Interests when assets are separated from the operating entity (Duffy-Cahill Report)’ which was commissioned following the closure of Clerys’ department...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: That is not what I said.

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: It has been four years since the report.

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: With all due respect to the Ministers of State, Deputies English and Troy, the fact that the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Varadkar, is not in the Chamber does not just show contempt for the Opposition and the left - we are well used to it at this stage - but also shows contempt for the 1,000 former Debenhams workers. That has not gone unnoticed. He...

Community Safety and Fireworks: Motion [Private Members] (22 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féín for bringing forward this Private Members' motion on community safety and fireworks which I will be supporting. I also support the call by the National Youth Council of Ireland for more investment in youth services. That call is set out in the amendment tabled by Solidarity-People Before Profit. This issue is not only one for now but is a general issue about...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (22 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 672 of 8 September 2020, if she will discuss with NPHET the possibility of reverting social welfare payments to a weekly payment (details supplied). [24899/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 737. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the drug dupilumab or dupixent which treats moderate to severe atopic dermatitis in adult patients; when and the way in which this drug will become widely available; and if he will provide other relevant information on the drug. [24889/20]

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with Deputy Harkin. I support this Bill introduced by the Labour Party. First, I wish to make an observation. We seem to have two Labour parties in Ireland, the one that we saw in government and the one that we see in opposition. In 2012, the Labour Party's Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, began a consultation process on her stated intention to introduce a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: In Cobh on Friday, three workers, including two full-time seasonal workers and a part-time worker, received notice of dismissal even though their contracts had them working until 29 November. It was no coincidence that these workers have been campaigning for toilet and hand-washing facilities at the Spike Island Tours kiosk. One had to get the union in to represent them to get toilet and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: We are in the middle of a pandemic and now they are being dismissed by a State company.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: 749. To ask the Minister for Health if the alert that took place in a school (details supplied) on 16 September 202 in relation to the Covid-19 tracker app will be clarified; and the reason for the alert. [26639/20]