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Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: After the debate today, the Minister should look seriously at this legislation and where he will bring it when we vote on it. Like me, I am sure virtually all Members have received a massive number of emails and social media messages, many from young people, urging a "No" vote on this hastily-drafted legislative measure. Young people quite rightly see these proposals as discrimination on...

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

Joan Collins: A lot was covered in the replies to Deputy Ó Cuív, such as application forms for the Traveller community and how specific they should be. Do the witnesses have any suggestions as to how they can be made clearer? What would a local authority require? Is legislative change needed to instruct authorities to do that specific work? At the end of the day, if a Traveller family has...

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

Joan Collins: I have a question for Mr. Allen or Ms Molloy about Housing First. Obviously there is a Housing First policy, whether that is with the Peter McVerry Trust or with Focus Ireland. Specifically on the key worker and the relationship with the Housing First client, who is it that makes the decision when there is no longer a need for a key worker to work with the person? Is that decision made by...

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

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. Allen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the contributors for their opening remarks. I am taken by Dr. McDonagh's comments because lived experience has to be high on the agenda when we are trying to tackle these issues. Generally, the feeling in the community is that it is time for action. All the talking has been done and we need action. Mr. McCann stated the Traveller legal service had received more than 90 inquiries...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the programme board established to oversee the 32 recommendations of the 2019 Expert Review Group on Traveller Accommodation has recommended the creation of a Traveller accommodation strategic policy committee in Dublin City Council; if so, when the recommendation will be implemented; and if not, when it will be discussed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 927. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made to secure an autism class in a school (details supplied). [39181/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has initiated talks within her Department in relation to a new school for Dublin 12 which will include autism classes given forward planning is needed in view of the fact there will be more than 6,000 new residents over the next two years in the area. [39182/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether early start needs an overhaul and autistic children need extra support to be able to fulfil their potential; and if there are plans in relation to same. [39183/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 2692. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland’s infection rate levels are being shared with the ECDC (details supplied). [38800/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 2828. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been outbreaks of Covid-19 in hotels since they reopened; if so, the number of hotels that have been affected; and the number of workers that have been infected in each hotel out of the total of number of workers working in each hotel. [39315/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: 711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify if sick benefit entitlements will be adversely affected for persons who were in receipt of PUP payments over the past 18 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42577/21]

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I will oppose the Government motion of confidence in the Minister, Deputy Coveney, for the simple reason that I have no confidence not just in the Minister, but in the Government. I do not have confidence in the Government dealing with issues such as the housing crisis. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission report yesterday was not a surprise but it was a shocking read. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: The resignations of Professor Tom Keane, chair of the Sláintecare advisory committee, and Laura Magahy, executive director of the Sláintecare programme, to reshape the health service have now been followed by the resignation of Professor Geraldine McCarthy, chair of the South/South West Hospital Group, who in a letter to the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, expressed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I do not think anyone should point the finger at staff. What Covid- 19 has demonstrated is how universal public healthcare can be delivered from the point of view of access for everybody to public healthcare, to vaccinations, to PCR testing, to GPs and to hospital care. That is not in question here. However, that Covid care is a model for how Sláintecare has to be implemented....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: All backed by public money.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I have been working with the Dublin 12 campaign for autism spectrum disorder, ASD, inclusion for a long time. It is a vibrant campaign that got a school on St. Agnes Road with the support of the Minister. Over the past while, however, and in particular this summer, there has been a transition from CHO 7, Enable Ireland and other services to progressive disability services. The families in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: It is the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte.

Adoption (Information) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank my colleagues, Deputies Pringle and Connolly, for tabling this Bill. It is a discussion that needs to be had. The Bill will move the situation on. Deputy Connolly pointed out that the basic right to identity was key for people. The Bill is simple in that regard, in that it is asking for people to have the right find out what their identities are. The Minister raised issues...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: Twenty years ago, the then Fianna Fáil Minister with responsibility for housing, Noel Dempsey, introduced the Part V requirement, set at 20% of new developments, to be set aside for purchase by local authorities for council housing. They were to be purchased at existing use value. However, after lobbying by developers and the construction industry, no doubt involving the Galway tent...