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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be offered a school placement in September 2022. [13942/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an autism class has been proposed for a school (details supplied). [14486/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 1032. To ask the Minister for Health the level of staffing of the Armagh Road children’s disability network team; and the breakdown of staffing (details supplied). [14777/22]

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

Joan Collins: Hospitals are coming under major pressure because of the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital beds. There were 1,395 such patients yesterday. That figure is up 29% in the past seven days. There are 55 patients ICU, up from 44 a week ago. Yesterday, 22,000 positive polymerase chain reaction, PCR, and antigen tests were registered. Anne O’Connor, chief operations officer with the...

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

Joan Collins: Who is giving the Government the advice? Is it the Chief Medical Officer?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I want to again raise the issue of the need to set up a cost of living hardship emergency fund to be distributed by community welfare officers in order that families can access the resources they need for things like fuel and food, and for those community welfare officers to be in the community, like they used to be. I welcome the fact community welfare officers are at the airports,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: They cannot access this through the community welfare officer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: It is the long term that we have to look at.

Services for Children with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin and particularly Deputy Tully for tabling this motion on services for children with disabilities. At the end of last year I submitted a question to the HSE and got a very detailed six-page reply on CDNTs, the SOP, preliminary team assessment, resources and so on. According to that reply, all our problems were solved. It stated that the SOP for the assessment of need...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for bringing this Private Members' Bill to the Dáil this morning to seek a referendum to enshrine neutrality in our Constitution. Nobody in this Chamber or in the Seanad will openly argue that we should abandon our traditional neutrality and join NATO because they do not have to. Structures for an EU military alliance have been carefully and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: On 28 February, public health measures fell, including the mandatory wearing of masks even though the public health advice was that we should maintain them on transport and in healthcare settings. We now have one of the most virulent Covid variants running rampant in our society with 1,600 patients in hospital, an increase of more than 40% in the past seven days. Last week, 5,200 staff were...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: Pardon.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: That is why I am asking for a mask-wearing campaign to alert people.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: That is what I meant.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: It is up 40% on last week.

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: The publication of the women's health plan and the objectives outlined in it are very welcome. There are specific issues that relate to women's health and the recognition of that is an important step forward. I welcome especially the proposal for free contraception for 17- to 25-year-olds and the commitment to roll that out to those over 25 in the next period. It would be interesting to...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I concur completely with the points Deputy Connolly made. I am nearly shaking with anger at the discussion we have had here today. I was hoping that at least we would get some information or update on where the Minister is at with talks and negotiations and all we got was the same as before. I had a Topical Issue matter taken two weeks ago. I was told in reply, because the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 401. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 3 December 2021, if 91 children's disability network teams have been established by the end of 2021; if all 91 children's disability network teams have been established, operational and fully staffed; the staffing levels in the children's disability network team in Armagh Road, Dublin 12; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the six sites at which the HSE will establish specialist acute hospital clinics for long Covid; and the services that will be provided in them. [17308/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 445. To ask the Minister for Health if the senior occupational therapist position in St. James’s Hospital will be maintained into the future for long Covid patients; if occupational therapists will be an essential service under the model of care for long Covid clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17309/22]