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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: A journalist contacted me to ask if they had gone up. The journalist is interested in what has been debated today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I will tell her that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements. I am impressed by the work being done by the organisations in terms of the different measures they are trying to implement in response to issues affecting the Traveller community. Ms Edwards made the point that within general society there is either racism, in its most cynical and hard sense, or an unconscious bias against the Traveller...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (2 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 265. To ask the Minister for Finance the persons or bodies NAMA is selling its property to; the amount they are being sold for; and if NAMA receivers are evicting tenants. [52441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (2 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a map and details of land that NAMA holds including location, size, planning permission and commercial viability analysis; and if he will provide a list of its property portfolio including locations and vacant units. [52442/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (2 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 921. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 19 October 2021, if he will ensure that the legislation includes banning advertising of this nature (details supplied). [52476/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 937. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 19 October 2021, if the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed. [52534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 1080. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in rolling out the local intervention teams in Dublin as in the case of a person (details supplied). [53187/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I want to come back to the question of the situation regarding Israel and the criminalisation of six human rights organisations. They are all vocal international groups. They have been to forums such as the EU, the UN and the International Criminal Court to push for accountability and justice. This move by Israel is absolutely abhorrent. The Minister cannot reply within a minute, but I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: We should have a debate on it. Is the Minister prepared to have a debate on it?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: Will he ask Fianna Fáil and the Green Party to push that?

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: This motion could be addressed to many if not all areas of the health service: insufficient capacity; lack of funding; staff shortages; enormous pressures and mental strain on staff; and a constant ongoing crisis affecting both those who need the service and those who work in it. Despite increased funding and a commitment to employ more staff, there is difficulty in recruiting new staff and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I note that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is in the Seanad at present. That is probably why he is not here in the Chamber. I am aware the Minister of State played a role in the Rebuilding Ireland scheme and he was the Minister of State in the then Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in the last Dáil, so he would be fairly clued in to this issue. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State. I note that no copy of his speech was given out. Perhaps one could be sent over to me. The suggested rent of €1,300 for a one-bedroom apartment and €1,500 for a two-bedroom apartment, which is the concept in some areas in Dublin, is affordable only to the top 30% of households. That is not what we are looking for or what we need in respect of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: Those figures are out there.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I do not agree with the HAP scheme in general.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons aged over 65 years who would otherwise be entitled to benefit payment are not able to claim the payment along with the half-rate carer’s allowance. [55788/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: There are many issues I could raise, such as the national maternity hospital or redress for mother and baby homes, but I wish to raise the inability to recruit and retain staff across the public health service. It is now reaching a crisis point. This is particularly the case in the crucial area of home care services. Despite the increased allocation of hours by the Government, people...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: It is not having any impact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: The fact of the matter is that in recent times workers from the private home care sector have been going into the HSE because the jobs are better paid, they are respected more and they get a pension and sick pay etc. In addition, people are not taking up the jobs in the private sector because of the conditions. It is a fundamental issue facing the healthcare service across the board. Last...