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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 1349. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not drawn up the proper consultant contracts for such doctors (details supplied) [33333/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 1350. To ask the Minister for Health the public health measures being put in place to ensure the isolation of Covid-19 infection within the Travelling community, the rate of which has increased in the past four weeks. [33334/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 1354. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a group of environmental scientists feeding into NPHET; if not, the reason; and the amount allocated to improve ventilation in buildings (details supplied). [33341/20]

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I welcome the restoration of the full PUP to €350 a week and the restoration of the wage supplement. This should have been included in the budget but as I noted during the budget debate, it was inevitable that we would move to stricter restrictions very soon. The proposal to tax the PUP is mean, miserly and unnecessary. The last thing workers who have been laid off and whose incomes...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Stadium Projects (4 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 49. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will confirm that the strategic assessment report and preliminary business case for the Dalymount Park proposal has been carried out fully in accordance with the public sector spending code and that the preliminary business case has or will be published. [34044/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Stadium Projects (4 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the funding business case for the Dalymount Park project on the sale of Tolka Park; and if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that this is a reserved function related to public land and subject to a vote by Dublin City councillors. [34043/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if foxhunting with hounds and all related activities have been stopped during level 5 restrictions; and if a ban will be introduced due to the cruelty to foxes and the public health concerns associated with large groups of hunters gathering and traversing the countryside. [34036/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: The Debenhams workers organised a meeting last Thursday. Representatives from many political parties, including Fianna Fáil, were at that meeting. The workers were filling us in about the outcome of the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, negotiations - or non-negotiations, as such. They raised serious issues about what can be done under the legal framework of insolvency. They said...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: A public state insolvency fund is a matter of course in European countries so it is not unusual and this proposal is not being plucked from the sky. We have solidarity funds such as the Social Insurance Fund where people contribute through PRSI for the good of all even though that they may not get sick. All sorts of reliefs have been brought in for the very wealthy in this country. There...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Defence Capabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 41. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the European peace facility; the role Ireland and the Defence Forces will play in relation to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36856/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Defence Capabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: Will the Minister make a statement on the European peace facility and elaborate on the role the Irish State and the Defence Forces will play in relation to it? The European peace facility was first proposed in 2018. It is a very significant proposal because it ventures into uncharted territory. For the first time in history it would allow the EU to provide external action support for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Defence Capabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: People know that I am absolutely opposed to this facility. The EPF is a new off-budget multi-billion euro fund of European citizens' money, which is set to replace two previous programmes, the African peace facility and the neighbourhood, development and international co-operation instrument. The African peace facility supports the African Union and the African Regional Economic Communities...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Defence Capabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I hear what the Minister is saying. He knows the concerns people have because for the last two years peace advocacy groups, corporate watchdogs and NGOs have implored the EU to call a halt to the EPF and to avoid investing in militarised approaches that are prone to failure and risk. The European External Action Service has doubled down by insisting that hard power has to complement soft...

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I support this important and timely legislation. While the Labour Party brought the Bill into the Dáil today, it is a shame that when it was in power between 2011 and 2016 it could not have introduced similar legislation when it had the majority to get it passed. Obviously the Covid pandemic has greatly increased the numbers of people working from home. Notwithstanding that,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commission on Pensions (18 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if representatives from organisations (details supplied) will be included on the Pensions Commission. [37169/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response Final Report: Motion (19 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I thank the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response for doing this fierce body of work and the recommendations in it. It looks like most of the recommendations will go to the select committees to be overseen and to make sure, where possible, that they are implemented. I was not a member of the committee. I would have liked to have been, as I was on the Sláintecare committee and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Election of Chairman (19 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I propose Senator Eileen Flynn.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architectural Heritage (24 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be supported to engage his officials and the HSE to carry out of a historic landscape assessment and a conservation plan on the Brú Chaoimh in Cork Street, Dublin 2. [38270/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a plan of public, cost rental and affordable housing will be implemented on the Oscar Traynor site and the timeframe for the implementation of same. [38269/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (24 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 835. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €10 million announced for the drugs strategy that will go to drug and alcohol task forces for local projects; and if the amount is ringfenced. [38233/20]