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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: Amendments Nos. 38 and 53 relate to removing sections 85(7) and 136 to allow an advance healthcare directive and decision supports to be extended to those detained under the Mental Health Act. Leaving these sections in is discriminatory so I expect the Minister will move very quickly and certainly to address those matters. We should not have it brought in under the mental health legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (28 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a person (details supplied) cannot pay for the renewal of their driver licence in cash; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33959/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (28 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will refuse the 2022-2023 coursing licences (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33640/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (28 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: 859. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a decision made to refer dental services provided in health clinics to private dentists who take medical card patients (details supplied). [34145/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Offices (29 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: 123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a process taking place in her Department that will change the appeals officer job specification in relation to appeals decisions; and if there are, if she will provide the changes. [34974/22]

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: The State has failed to provide special needs school places in their local area to every child who needs them. It has also failed to provide the resources to ensure those rights are vindicated properly in schools. More trained staff, sensory rooms, equipment and access therapists are needed. One third of vacancies are in the CDNTs that were set up, we were told, to get over the problems...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered utilising workers in small creches who are let go during the summer months to give them an option to work and provide the July provision. [34863/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected needs for school placements for special needs and autistic children in secondary schools, either by CHO area or by county, from September 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [34858/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in relation to schools (details supplied) that need to open autism classes in Dublin 12. [34864/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs children in Dublin 12, Dublin 6, Dublin 6W and Dublin 8 who are waiting for school placements in primary or secondary schools for September 2022. [34857/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. Kearney, Ms McGrath and Ms Prendeville for coming to the committee today. The main objective of us all is that at the end of this process parents and children would be clear in the role they can play and the role the NCSE plays around the issue we must overcome. Many of the questions have already been asked and answered but I would like to get a bit more detail from Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: On the speech and language therapists in the school inclusion model, will Mr. Kearney send the committee a breakdown of how many will be needed? I have found that some schools had been looking for the service, and to get a special education adviser into the schools, but they have been put on a waiting list. This negates the role of the service if there is a service but the school cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the officials.

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire for tabling the motion, which is timely. It was part of the pressure that we have seen in the response from the Government in the past hour. A good quality free education should be a basic essential in a modern society. It is the norm in most advanced countries. However, free primary and secondary education in this country is a myth, as has been said....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: The number of renters being obliged to leave their homes is staggering. Last year, 3,038 households renting were served a notice to quit, mainly because the landlord was selling. This is the highest number of tenant evictions to take place in a single year since the foundation of the State. The number of families facing eviction has continued unabated into this year. Renters are living...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: These families are facing this crisis now. People are walking into our constituency office, and I am sure every other Deputy is seeing that in his or her constituency office, with notices to quit and all sorts of housing problems. They have been told by the family support and emergency accommodation units that they are at capacity - they do not have anywhere to put them. Either the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: Buy them.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (6 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she received a notice from a school (details supplied) indicating that a board of management was yet to be established; if the notice was received; the reason given by the school for not establishing the board of management; if she has been advised on the nomination and designation for the chairperson of the school; if steps will be taken...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 286. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1742 of 14 June 2022, if an organisation (details supplied) closed its offices and transferred its equipment to St James’s Hospital in January 2022; if transcranial magnetic stimulation is accessible to private patients who have mental health, epilepsy and addiction issues; and if there are other public hospitals...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) needs a public service card to renew their driving licence; and the reason they cannot use another form of identification. [36143/22]