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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visits to prisons that took place with a child present in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57855/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if a series of matters in relation to the non-checking of Covid-19 certificates in a premises (details supplied) will be investigated. [57730/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person in receipt of the carer’s allowance cannot get the over 65 benefit payment and retain the half-rate carer’s allowance given that when a person reaches 66 years of age they can claim the State pension and retain the half-rate carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement the increase in the means test for the fuel allowance with immediate effect as of midnight of Budget 2022. [57548/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reinstate the pandemic unemployment payment for those workers who are affected by the restrictions of closure at midnight to the level the payment was at in March 2020. [57547/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (30 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions under the Climate Action Plan that are in place to facilitate electric car charging points in areas in which there are no gardens to accommodate them; and the timeline to accommodate persons wanting to move from fossil fuel to electric vehicles. [58490/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (30 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if €80 million was allocated to Dublin City Council in 2019 for it's housing retrofit scheme; if this €80 million been allocated to date; and the amount that was allocated in 2020 and 2021. [58299/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (30 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional amount of revenue that would be accrued if employer’s PRSI was increased by 1%, 2%, 3%, 4% and by 5%, respectively in tabular form. [58500/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 509. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the reports that health and safety officers have made since 23 October 2021 in regard to Covid-19 compliance in the hospitality, public houses, café and restaurant sectors; and if he will provide an update on the levels of compliance. [58296/21]

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: It has been backdated.

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: I genuinely would like to be standing here welcoming an increase in the basic welfare payments. I cannot do so, however, because the budgets for 2020 and 2021 provided no increase in those payments. Given inflation, they were, in effect, a cut in the payments and a continuation of the austerity affecting the most vulnerable in our society. Before the pandemic, 630,000 people in Ireland...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity, along with fellow Opposition Deputies, to introduce this Bill on behalf of the Simon Communities of Ireland. I am supporting the Bill because it is a progressive step for people facing increasing notices to quit and will protect them from eviction and homelessness. In October, 8,830 women, men and children were in emergency accommodation, an increase of 4.2% on...

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: Our public services face a crisis. They face under-funding, staff shortages and general lack of resources. This has created intolerable working conditions for those who provide essential services and life-saving services. This motion deals with just one element, which is staff shortages and the consequences for Dublin Fire Brigade. I salute the firefighters on their professionalism and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: For 25 years, our national drugs strategy has been underpinned by a community development approach. In 1996, the then Minister, on behalf of the State, acknowledged to community leaders who had been campaigning on the drugs issue for years that the then Government had not listened. The Minister set up a partnership structure that included community representation as a right to ensure that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: I accept the point made by the Minister of State that CityWide and the community sector have not been taken out of the equation and that CityWide, the National Family Support Network and Uisce will continue to be on the national oversight committee. If the groups are not named to be on the committee, they are not recognised. It is important that they are named. I hope we will continue to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: What issues is the Minister of State talking about?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: I acknowledge that more than 1 million people have received their third dose of the vaccine to date, but why are there not more local pharmacies and community centres involved in providing third doses? I went to Citywest on the Monday before last. I had not received an appointment from the HSE; I was a walk-in. I got there at 8 o'clock in the morning. I spent two hours standing outside in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: Only four of them are in Dublin 12.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for a very comprehensive report on the workings of NTRIS to date. A question remains to be answered. Funding is going into this strategy and committees and equality groups have been set up, yet the situation has not changed on the coalface. That is the reality of it. It is a question of how we transpose all these reports and groups to the reality on the ground. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: The Minister is right about pushback, but people are pushing back because of the state of the halting sites in which Travellers are living. We have to turn that around. If communities are to have the right services and accommodation, some serious work will have to be done.