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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I heard the media campaign which I welcome. I am sure it will have an impact when we get to see the figures for the past month or so. Obviously, the number of people looking for additional needs payments increased because of the cost-of-living increase and not because of the media campaign because the increase happened before the campaign. We should have a specific pilot scheme in a rural...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have made applications for the rent supplement or supplementary welfare allowance or exceptional needs payments from 1 May to 24 June 2022 from the Intreo Offices in Cork Street and Bishop Square, Dublin; and if there has been an increase in applications since her Department advertised the service....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further up Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 29 June 2022, if the new regulations in the appeals office prevent appeals officers from making the decision for any oral hearings even if requested by the person making the appeal appellant or a Deputy; if they will need to obtain permission from senior management given that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the back-to-school allowance to assist families with the cost-of-living. [34873/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a cost of disability payment to the Exchequer, in line with the recommendations set out in the recent report (details supplied) published in December 2021; and if she is producing an implementation plan in relation to same. [34986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of introducing a cost of disability payment in line with the recommendations set out in the recent Cost of Disability Report published in December 2021 (details supplied). [34022/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I will try to be brief. I welcome the Minister of State. Is the Department of Education planning further investment for this year to reduce the average class size by one pupil to bring it closer to the European average? A reduction in general class sizes would assist the delivery of services for disabled and autistic children. Will the Minister of State update us on the in-school...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I asked about the July summer education programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I do not have any questions. I am listening intently to this debate although I have just come back in, for which I apologise.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I want to briefly come in on a point Deputy Paul Murphy raised on the referendum on the public ownership of water. When will we see that coming through? My Bill, which was backed by the Right2Water campaign, has been buried in Committee Stage for the last number of years and at this stage we are told that a referendum on water will only take place along with a referendum on housing being a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: Is there no date?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: It will be never-never.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: You have still not sorted it out.

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I support the motion. We are two weeks away from the 2023 budget and promised measures to alleviate the cost-of-living crisis. Like most responses from this Government I expect it will be too little, and it will certainly be too late. We should have had a mini-budget in the early summer. This is not just a crisis in heating and lighting for people and it is not a crisis confined to the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: On 9 August approximately 80 students on Dublin Business School's applied social care programme were sent an email notifying them the CORU board did not deem the programme as sufficient to meet its requirements to provide an approved qualification at this time. This came as a big shock to the students. I heard the Minister, Deputy Harris, on the radio on 31 August explaining the situation....

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I am supporting the motion. The latest figures for fuel poverty seem to be from 2017. At the time, it was estimated that 475,000 households were affected by fuel poverty or, in other words, had to spend 10% of their income on heating their home. There is no up-to-date strategy to deal with fuel poverty. The retrofitting of homes has to be a key element of combating fuel poverty by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (20 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to help halt the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) by applying the Precautionary Principle and ordering an immediate cessation of all shooting and hunting including driven shoots; if he is of the view that at this critical moment, every effort must be made to eliminate all risks to wild birds, many of whom...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget but I think, as my colleague, Deputy Pringle, said, is just a bit of a performance, with us all standing up speaking on a budget that has been out in the media for the last week. I want to mention some statistics not referred to by the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. The figures are courtesy of the Society of St....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (27 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: 562. To ask the Minister for Health when a health and safety inspection was carried out on a premises (details supplied); and if he will request the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to visit the premises and to advise this Deputy of same. [47224/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I raised a number of issues regarding the budget during my speech yesterday. The budget had two key tasks; to cap and reduce energy prices and to target supports at those most in need. I pointed out that the Government did not fundamentally succeed in either task. While we welcome some of the initiatives, such as the once-off payment, the most straightforward, effective way to deal with...