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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (26 May 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for the report. As regards the PUP, members are aware that people are getting the payment based on what they earned before the restrictions came in. Now we can see there is an argument for tapering the PUP. If a person who is currently on €250 or €300 works in the restaurant or broader hospitality sector and is brought back for outdoor service but on...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (26 May 2021)

Joan Collins: I will be brief and to the point. I want to come back on the temporary wage subsidy scheme. I take the point made by the Minister that people pay tax on their income. However, the scheme was brought in under extraordinary circumstances. There must have been an arrangement between the Department of Social Protection, the Department of Finance and the Revenue Commissioners to forfeit the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: It is great to see the witnesses again. I know where they are coming from when they say that they should not be here and we should not be in this situation. One can really hear the frustration and righteous anger felt by the Traveller and Roma communities from the point of view of the way human rights have not been upheld. We must ensure that the independent national Traveller...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: This Bill sets the stage for the future. The future is all those people who were out on the streets, the students in 2019, and all the NGOs that have been campaigning for a robust climate action Bill over recent years. We had hoped to get it from the Green Party but I am afraid that tonight, we did not get it in this Bill. The initial Bill was very weak. The committee did great work on...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: Back in 2017 Orkambi was reimbursed for market distribution here in Ireland and it was a great boost for the cystic fibrosis, CF, community after a long campaign. A new drug, Kaftrio, has been approved in the USA and by the European Medicines Agency, EMA, in April of this year. I tabled a question to the Minister for Health in early May and I was told the applicants had put in the rapid...

Impact of Covid-19 on People with Disabilities within the Education and Health Sectors: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I do not know whether the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, meant to give the impression that everything is okay - perhaps she did not mean to use that tone - but it certainly sounded like it. It came across as if we should not look to the Government but rather look away. The reality on the ground for so many parents and children is a very different experience. I understand that both...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (17 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: 345. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons with disabilities currently availing of the training support grant that was introduced in 2020; and the breakdown of groups of disabled persons that are applying for the grant. [32535/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (17 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: 346. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount of funding allocated for the training support grant; the courses or training opportunities for which the grant has been used; and her plans to increase the amount of the training support grant in Budget 2022. [32537/21]

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I intend raising this issue with the Taoiseach later and I will be looking for a clear, direct answer. If the situation remains as it is with the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group refusing to sell the site to the State, is the Government preparing to compulsory purchase order, CPO, the site, and if it is too costly and if it is too lengthy is the Government preparing to abandon the St....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: Yesterday in Questions on Promised Legislation, the Taoiseach stated the issue should have been raised in Leaders' Questions. He is getting those questions today because he still has not clarified his position on the new national maternity hospital. The decision to locate a State-built and funded, much-needed, modern national maternity hospital without clear clarification as to ownership of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: We all want a safe modern national maternity hospital. No one challenges that. No one challenges the preference that it be co-located. The KPMG report in 2008 indicated that and the Government went by that report. However, eight years on from 2013 and 13 years on from that report, we are in a situation where the Religious Sisters of Charity still have control over this hospital being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: They told the previous Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, that they were not going to sell the land.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Grant Payments (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: 111. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the decision makers who issue grants and funding to organisations (details supplied); and the reason a company that has contributed to the economy on a large scale in such a short period of time has been declined the opportunity to recover. [33650/21]

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I welcome that there is at last some semblance of an idea and legislation in the Dáil on affordable housing. I question whether it actually is affordable housing, but at least there is something before us. I also welcome the cost-rental model being put on a statutory footing. However, the Bill will in no effective way solve the housing crisis. It will not make housing more affordable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I welcome Dr. Muldoon and Ms Ward to the committee today. The ombudsman's report is a milestone from the point of view of where we are at in terms of Traveller accommodation. These reports have been coming out for years. We have had health and safety reports on that site, going back to 2011, in which the environmental officer said it was not fit for human habitation. We cannot let this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Visas (29 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements that have been made with other European countries, the United States of America and so on in relation to the pandemic; if unvaccinated can students travel; if they are covered for Covid-19 healthcare in the country they are doing their Erasmus programme in; and if they will get vaccinated in the country they are studying in as...

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Bríd Smith and People Before Profit-Solidarity for introducing this retired workers Bill. I am very pleased to support the legislation, which would represent an important change for the up to 500,000 retired workers in this country. Many workers have had detrimental changes made to their pension entitlements with little notice and no consultation. These changes could...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: In response to a question from Deputy Gannon last week about the proposal for a Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS, Covid waiver at the WTO, the Tánaiste told the House that a TRIPS waiver was not enough to do what needed to be done and that the best thing we could do was to work together with industry to license this intellectual property to the global south...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: Will the Government support the CTAP?