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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Agreements (22 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: 142. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 442 of 20 January 2021 and 179 of 12 May 2021, the exact outstanding issues that need to be resolved by the Department of Justice before the State can proceed to ratify the Second Optional Protocol on the UNCRC which includes the sale of children, child prostitution and...

Ombudsman for Children's Initiative on Eliminating Child Poverty and Child Homelessness: Statements (23 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: Like many other Deputies who have spoken, I absolutely endorse the Ombudsman for Children's report, A Better Normal. I want to hear how the Government is going to implement the report. The Minister made a fair point in his introduction that other issues and plans have been put in place but this report goes deeply into the situation faced by children in poverty as we come out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for coming in and giving their reports. It is much appreciated. In saying that, if one talks to members of the Traveller community living on halting sites, the story is very different. They are still struggling to get basic amenities serviced, including sewerage and water services. I represent the Travelling community in Labre Park. A plan was put in place almost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: One of the 32 recommendations of the expert group was that Dublin City Council set up a Traveller accommodation strategic policy committee, SPC. It has not been set up yet. Has that type of policy committee been set up in other local authority areas?

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: Today the Minister announced plans to bring forward proposals to establish a task force on waiting lists and to seek extra funding to resource this in the forthcoming budget. This is to be welcomed but the question has to be asked, why is it only now, with waiting lists approaching nearly 1 million, that emergency action is being considered? The plan to provide three new elective hospitals...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: In December 2018, the then Minister for Health-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: In December 2018, the then Minister for Health pledged to introduce stand-alone legislation in 2019 to allow healthcare workers to go about their work and people to access reproductive health services without intimidation. Those pickets are still taking place. We are receiving emails from women and men who feel they have been stigmatised, shamed and intimidated as they access reproductive...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: The housing and homelessness crisis will continue and get worse unless there is a fundamental and radical change in how housing is delivered. The Government's housing strategy is not the fundamental and radical change needed. The right to an affordable home with security of tenure is a basic human right which should be enshrined in the Constitution. I believe many Deputies believe in that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (30 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the escalations developing in the Pacific between the US, the UK, Australia and China; and if he will seek an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the increased militarisation in the area. [47328/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (30 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I am seeking the Minister's views on the developing escalation in the Pacific between the US, the UK, Australia and China. Will he seek an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the increased militarisation in the area? As he will see from my question, I am raising the recent development of a new military alliance between the US, UK and Australia. This agreement means a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (30 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: This AUKUS agreement represents an increase in the military build-up in the area which will undoubtedly meet with a response from China. Despite claims to the contrary by the US and China, this is an escalation towards a new cold war, reminiscent of that between the US and the former Soviet Union. As Ireland now holds the presidency of the Security Council, will the Minister and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (30 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I accept the Minister's point that the member states of the UN Security Council have to agree, but we have to start applying pressure. Where are the alliances Ireland is making with other countries to apply pressure to discuss this? China now has a territorial claim on approximately 90% of the South China Sea. This is contested by other countries in the region. There is an international...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State. Most people in Opposition recognise that climate change is happening. There is no doubt about it. We saw the wildfires in Greece, the fatal floods in Belgium and Germany and record temperatures in Sicily and there is no doubt that Europe is now squarely on the front line of a climate crisis. We also saw what happened in the United States and the loss of...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: Yes, the two years. There was also the reaction of not delivering doses of the vaccines needed in the Third World. Therefore, people are asking many questions regarding how governments are going to respond to the climate issue, as well as big companies. Some 100 companies have been the source of 70% of the world's emissions since 1988. The relentless exploitation of the world's oil, gas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for appearing and laying out the reality on the ground for workers and the local employment service. Members of the committee have raised this matter with the Minister a number of times, including through parliamentary questions in the Dáil. She repeatedly comes back with the argument on EU procurement rules and states the Attorney General has copper-fastened...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State is aware of this issue, given that contact was made with her this year when she advised that it was a matter for the Minister for Transport and that all correspondence should be sent to him. I will provide the background. The carriages are a regular sight in and around the St. Stephen's Green area as well as St. James's Gate. In May 2019, carriage drivers led a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I welcome that work on this matter is progressing. I have checked the legislative programme for 2021 and there is nothing within it in regard to this issue, which would indicate it is not being prepared. Will the Minister of State give me a date for when a general scheme of a Bill will be forthcoming? At this stage, we are in a very difficult situation in that anyone over the age of 16...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (5 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 493. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications for declarations of eligibility and suitability to adopt from abroad that were made by individuals and couples in 2020; and the number that were assessed as suitable. [48232/21]

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I welcome this People Before Profit-Solidarity Private Members' motion on the very important issue of energy prices. The figures set out in the motion speak for themselves. Without action on the part of the Government, many people face a very difficult winter in just keeping their lights on and staying warm. Some 400,000 households in this State experience fuel poverty. It is estimated...