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Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: I also thank Sinn Féin for introducing this Private Members' motion regarding not increasing the carbon tax this year. No doubt members of the Green Party in the Government will accuse those of us who support this motion of not taking the question of climate change seriously enough. I assure them that I take the issue of climate change and global warming very seriously. As things...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (22 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 307. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of film board funding that has been issued for development grants and production grants in 2021. [9137/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (22 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the existing facilities of schools (details supplied) remain open in their current format until all the facilities of a new school are ready. [9859/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (22 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish an expert review group to examine a minimum essential qualification of a relevant Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, level 6 qualification or the equivalent when new special needs assistants, SNAs, are hired; and if he will issue recommendations (details supplied) in relation to same. [10010/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (23 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Second Optional Protocol on The United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child which includes the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography will be ratified (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10251/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise a specific issue on the cost of living which we discussed again this morning. Is the Government considering setting up a hardship emergency fund? I raised this two weeks ago and the ESRI has also raised the need to establish an emergency hardship fund to help meet exceptional need payments, such a fund to be administered by the community welfare officers based in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: Will the Taoiseach join me in congratulating two female migrant workers who recently won a quite significant claim against their unfair dismissal in the Labour Court? Julia Marciniak, who is originally from Poland, and Lenka Laiermanova, who is originally from the Czech Republic, were found to have been sacked by the Ivy restaurant on Dawson Street for trade union activity. These two...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for joining me in congratulating those workers. As he said, it was a very high bar, and there is no other case we know of in Ireland in which an unfair dismissal dispute over trade union activity has been won. The unfair dismissals legislation should be amended to give all workers protection from unfair dismissal from day one of their employment, not just after 12...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: They are not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: Deputy Pringle raised at the Business Committee the issue of a debate on the National Maternity Hospital. We have recently seen media reports of deals being made and deals being brought to Cabinet. I ask that the National Maternity Hospital be debated in the Dáil Chamber.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I asked a question regarding the National Maternity Hospital.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: There are three Private Members' slots-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I submitted the matter for discussion on the Topical Issue debate six times in the past two weeks but it has not been taken.

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I support the motion. I congratulate Sinn Féin on bringing it forward on the basis that it clearly outlines the scale of the ongoing and increasing crisis in the public healthcare system. It also clearly identifies the fault lines in the latest announcement of yet anther plan to tackle waiting lists. We have to ask why we have these outrageous waiting lists in the first place. To my...

National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I will go though the motion for clarity and to put it on the record of the Dáil. The motion reads, "the current National Driver Licence Service (NDLS) contract, which was put in place in 2021 while the attention of the body politic was diverted by the Covid-19 pandemic, no longer offers a walk-in service, the walk-in service having originally ceased temporarily in March 2020 to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to fit acoustic vehicle alert systems to electric bus vehicles given that the introduction of electric or hybrid vehicles will cause significant issues for pedestrians who are blind or vision impaired. [11700/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 699. To ask the Minister for Health when an updated Covid certificate will issue to a person (details supplied) in view of numerous requests to the HSE. [11189/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 774. To ask the Minister for Health if a high level taskforce will be set up through the combined auspices of the National Dementia Office and the HSE Integrated Care Programme to scope out the service requirements for those with Huntington’s disease; if so, if he will ensure that a report is available within six months of the taskforce having been set up with a business case and a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in introducing the pilot scheme for a European cost-rental model of housing (details supplied); and the timeline for the delivery of the first large-scale public affordable cost-rental project at a location. [12055/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I wish to follow up on that. The planning application for St. Michael's estate was agreed by the council in 2016. The project was announced in 2018. At a housing committee presentation in 2020, we were told the planning application would be submitted in the first quarter of 2021. Now it has been postponed again. There is considerable frustration in the community over this. The community...