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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (29 Apr 2021)

Joan Collins: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the hot meals programme in the case of a school (details supplied); and if she will review this anomaly. [22468/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Apr 2021)

Joan Collins: 128. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland will send emergency oxygen and PPE to the health service in India as a matter of urgency in response to the crisis there. [22470/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

Joan Collins: Many areas have been covered. I attended the previous meeting on the St. Stephen's Green Trust report. As was said at that meeting, the travelling community is really over-analysed. Travellers feel like a specimen at this stage with the amount of poking and reports and everything that has been done. It has come to a point where we need to start trying to do something. This report feeds...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for tabling this Private Members' motion. I absolutely concur that the rental and housing crisis continue to spiral out of control. The new affordable housing Bill mentioned in the Minister's countermotion is a new plan with the same problems as previous plans. It regurgitates earlier plans, is developer led and investment fund led. There is a bit of tinkering...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 666. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug kaftrio for cystic fibrosis patients will be approved for funding for use in Ireland. [23256/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Family Carers Ireland (5 May 2021)

Joan Collins: I apologise, as I was late coming in so I do not know if the issue I am going to raise has been covered already. I heard reference to the HAP payment and top-ups. I came in halfway through Deputy Ó Cuív's contribution. I thank the organisations for coming in this morning and giving their expert advice on what needs to be done to prevent poverty as much as possible or to help...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Probation and Welfare Service (11 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 557. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage and total figure of young persons aged up to and including 18 years of age that have an active case with the Probation Service that are also subject to a care order through Tusla. [24070/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Greyhound Industry (11 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 975. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way Greyhound Racing Ireland defines rehome in the context of its rehoming statistics; if greyhounds must be spayed or neutered before rehoming to prevent breeding; the checks that are carried out on potential new owners and homes; and if there is a requirement that those accepting greyhounds for rehoming must agree not to give...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Greyhound Industry (11 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Greyhound Racing Ireland is continuing to present as rehomed or rehomed as pet greyhounds that have in fact been sold abroad for racing or breeding (details supplied); if there are penalties in place for those that accept a greyhound for rehoming but sell the dog on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24169/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Greyhound Industry (11 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of investigating and testing a greyhound for the presence of prohibited substances; the reason the fines imposed on owners of greyhounds that test positive do not at least cover these costs; and if any owners of greyhounds that tested positive have been banned from involvement in racing. [24173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Greyhound Industry (11 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an apparently uninjured greyhound was put to sleep at Youghal track in October 2020 (details supplied). [24174/21]

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Joan Collins: I am pleased to speak in support of the Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021, which has been properly renamed the Debenhams Bill. I will be voting for it. It is a simple, straightforward Bill putting redundant workers top of the list of creditors in the case of insolvency and it represents an important step forward. Earlier in the course of this dispute, I...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Agreements (12 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if or when the second optional protocol on the UNCRC which includes the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography will be ratified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24819/21]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy Ó Broin for using their Private Members' time to put this issue on the agenda of the Dáil. As with previous housing motions, it is really important. I have two questions for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, the dominant parties in successive governments, and for the Labour Party and the Greens. I found it incredible to listen to the Labour Party...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (18 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when social welfare payments will be increased to meet the minimum essential standard of living. [26154/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to maintain the method of funding, that is, cost met model and not the cost bid model for local employment services (details supplied). [26151/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to maintain pandemic unemployment payments beyond the end of June 2021 particularly in sectors that are not fully open or open, for example, if workers in the restaurant industry are returning to work with fewer hours due to outdoor only dining that the payment will be tapered to meet the payment that they have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Joan Collins: I will not repeat much of what has been said, although I agree with everything proposed. The question of targets is important as a marker of how to get things moving. We could recommend or insist that Departments or parts of the public sector have a percentage of jobs going to the Traveller community. It might be more difficult with social enterprises but we could actively advocate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Joan Collins: I appreciate Dr. McGann's comments.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise the issue of tenants in receipt of homeless HAP. Several people have contacted me recently on this issue. I will refer to two of them. I was contacted by a young woman who is in receipt of homeless HAP. In 2018 she was paying €1,500 and getting the cap of €990 under the homeless HAP, which meant she was paying €510 as a top-up. Several years later,...