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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 will emphasise one point. We had a private meeting earlier that Senator Flynn attended. She made the point that accommodation is key to everything else coming together. Accommodation would build the morale of the Travelling community and that of the children on the sites. It would build the morale of the communities around those sites. It would be like the working-class areas of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (9 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing issues of lack of water and adequate sanitation at a site (details supplied); the steps his Department will take to ensure that the budget allocated to Traveller accommodation in the area will be utilised to resolve this health and safety matter; and if he will make a statement...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: As one of the five Deputies who introduced this Bill last week on behalf of the Simon Communities of Ireland, I support the Bill, as every and any action that can prevent people being evicted into homelessness is a progressive protective step for people facing increasing notices to quit, evictions and homelessness. My colleagues in my constituency office report that they have seen a steady...

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

Joan Collins: I give best wishes to everybody inside and outside the House over the festive season. There is a cohort of families who will find it difficult over the Christmas season. Five weeks ago in Leaders' Questions to the Taoiseach I raised the inability to recruit and retain staff in the crucial area of home care services. Despite the increased allocation of hours in the budget by the Government,...

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: I take exception to some of the comments that have been made to the effect that there has been no difference between where we were 22 months ago and where we are now. We now have a vaccine that has worked quite effectively. It is stopping infection and death in the country. No one ever said it was going to stop infection, and that should be clearly pointed out. We also have a Covid savvy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses. What Senator Gavan said was very informative. One other aspect which has not been mentioned is the fact a lot of pensioners work beyond the age of 65 because they want to work. Others do so because of poverty due to the fact they cannot afford to live on a pension and need to keep working to have an income to pay a mortgage or rent. Many pensioners have experienced...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: I do not know what is wrong with my camera. I just cannot open it. I confirm that I am in Agriculture House.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for the clarification on the supplementary payment. I have just two questions. Many other areas have been covered. Regarding the CE supervisors, it is good that an offer has been made. It is to be hoped they will be happy with the offer. I wish to ask the Minister about the EWSS. A number of Deputies have tabled questions about the PUP to her in the past week or...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: This question has come directly from Ms Antoinette Keegan of the Stardust Victims Committee. Ms Keegan points out that it is almost 41 years since the terrible Stardust fire in Artane, Dublin, in which 48 young people died and 214 were injured. The Attorney General announced on 25 September 2019 that the inquest must go ahead as this was in the public interest. The Department of Justice...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: Will the Taoiseach meet the families?

Violence Against Women: Statements (19 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: The loss of the life of a young woman, Ashling Murphy, has been met with a sense of shock, outrage and an outpouring of support and sympathy on a national level. So it should be. It appears that Ashling Murphy was killed in a random act of violence by a possibly deranged individual. I want to express my solidarity and sympathy with the family, her partner and the community. I also want...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (19 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the pension scheme for Dublin Bus drivers will be signed off on (details supplied). [63246/21]

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — in 2013 a decision was made to move the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) from Holles St to the Elm Park site to co-locate with St. Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH), which was to be part of the construction of four new co-located maternity hospitals; and — this led to a dispute with the St Vincent's Hospital Group...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: It looks like we have been deserted tonight in regard to this debate. I want to concur with Deputy Connolly in terms of the response from the Minister of State. It is an insult, not just to me but to women in this country. In setting up the legal entity and framework, the Mulvey agreement has spurred the Religious Sisters of Charity to continue on in the same vein. The project was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Communications (20 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department sent a memo to Dublin City Council in November 2021 informing the Council to cease the acquisition housing programme given that a family (details supplied) has received a tenancy termination notice and is in danger of being made homeless. [2737/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: 1838. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a vaccine (details supplied); if the G7 countries are supporting the manufacturing of this vaccine which has the potential to produce vaccines for sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Asia and Latin America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2033/22]

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion on the cost of living and I thank Deputy Nash for putting it on the agenda. We know that, over the past 14 months, inflation has risen by 5.5%. That 5.5% is just a figure but the reality of that 5.5% is increases in basics such as bread, milk, butter, pasta and other groceries. It is estimated that the weekly shop for the average family...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to assist families who need three-bedroom homes at an affordable cost (details supplied). [3315/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Joan Collins: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department sent a memo to Dublin City Council in November 2021, informing the Council to cease the acquisition housing programme given that a family (details supplied) has received a tenancy termination notice and is in danger of being made homeless. [3187/22]