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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (6 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a scoping exercise has been carried out to test whether there are sufficient competent entities such as private for profit, non-profit, limited by guarantee companies and charities to constitute a competitive market for the intended provision of employment services. [48587/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the terms of reference of the procurement tender in relation to the request for tender of the Regional Employment Service in four geographical lots in the north-west and midlands will involve showing evidence of the ability to deposit funds against a failure to deliver on the tender. [48534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: EU Directives (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Article in the EU Directives on Public Procurement 2014/24/EU in which it states that it is obligatory to go to public procurement; and if the interpretation of this article has been validated by the Office of Government Procurement. [48552/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social clauses that will be applied at the eligibility stage and at the award stage in order to factor in broad policy considerations into the procurement process of the regional employment service request for tender. [48536/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether persons on illness benefit should be included in the fuel allowance scheme. [48535/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions in October 2021 will also remove the restriction on sanitary and toilet facilities at driver test centres to allow access to instructors, students and those accompanying learner drivers to lessons and tests. [48896/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I am delighted to meet representatives of Cena. I have heard about the organisation but I have never had an opportunity to hear about its work. Cena, as approved housing body, is now a statutory body. How much money does it receive? How many people work for Cena full-time? We heard about apprenticeships and having architects come on board. How does Cena operate? The map shows that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: Ignorance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I am a strong believer in the motto, nothing about you without you. That is where I support the Cena project. It is brilliant from that point of view. I thank Ms Casey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I was interested in what Mr. Dillon was saying about employment that might be attached to Cena projects over time. Where can people go to link in with the organisation regarding potential work? I would like some information on that because I know people who want to get work, have a van and are keen. It would be good to be able to point them in the right direction for potential future...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on budget 2022. To me and many others, this will, in many ways, be summed up as the "fiver budget" of 2022. I would call it the "lousy fiver budget" of 2022. Let us consider the State old age pension. Age Action Ireland has shown that when inflation is taken into account, the real value of the State pension has fallen by more than €10 per week in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (12 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of any meetings which he or officials of his Department have had with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry or of pharmaceutical companies since 1 October 2021, at which the Covid-19 waiver proposed at the WTO Council on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights were discussed; the names and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Meetings (12 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 226. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of any meetings which he or his officials have had with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry or pharmaceutical companies since 1 May 2020, at which the WHO C-TAP initiative was discussed; the names and positions of those present; the content of the discussion relating to C-TAP and any actions taken; and the documents...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Meetings (12 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 227. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of any meetings which he or officials of his Department have had with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry or of pharmaceutical companies since 1 October 2021, at which the Covid-19 waiver proposed at the WTO Council on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights were discussed; the names and positions of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the delay to agreed autism classes in schools (details supplied). [49307/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I want to raise an issue that was brought to my attention in an email I got this morning from a school principal. The email states: I'd like to draw your attention to the shortage of teachers crisis that the school has been experiencing over the past number of weeks. Neither my school or the joint school have been able to get a sub teacher for over three weeks. This has led to excessive...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: A serious crisis is building up, as noted by the Irish Primary Principals Network. We could have a case where children are sent home from class because schools cannot provide teachers.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to respond to budget 2022 and I branded it the "lousy fiver" budget because that is exactly what it is. It is a lousy €3 budget, a lousy €2 budget, a lousy €5 fuel allowance budget at a time social welfare recipients are feeling the pinch because of inflation, particularly energy price inflation. These are the people who have borne the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: Many of the areas have already been covered. I was listening closely and I know things have improved. I have linked in with the community at St. Margaret's Traveller site in Ballymun where the community is caught in behind high walls and have super depots being built around them while the conditions they live in remain absolutely dire. Only for the community on site, it would be a lot...