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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: As the Minister will be aware, this review was warmly welcomed by lone parents and the organisations One Family and SPARK, and they were very keen to process the review. The Minister says the review will not be published until possibly the end of the year or maybe early next year. Has she made provision within her Department's budget for the implementation of any recommendations that may...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: The Minister will understand there is a sense of urgency among lone parents and the groups representing them that this would be processed as quickly as possible. I again ask if she has made provision in her budget from the point of view of the recommendations coming out of this review. I do not know whether payments will be costed, whether a one-stop shop will be set up or whatever comes...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (13 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the evidence on which she based the increase of €2 per week, 30 cent per day for the qualified child increase for children under the age of 12 years. [50621/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has read a post-Budget 2023 analysis (details supplied) that highlights that after the Q4 2022 cost-of-living measures are implemented, a one-parent family with two children, one in primary and one in secondary will face a shortfall of €9.40 and for those with an older child, this rises to €82.73; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-organise community welfare officers back into the community for at least two to three days per week, but preferably permanently (details supplied). [50624/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the fuel allowance has not been extended to working family payment recipients. [50629/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (13 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 452. To ask the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [50972/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (18 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: Last Thursday, I was contacted by constituents, parents and service users about St. Michael's House, 18 Cromwellsfort Road, Dublin 12. A man who has Apert syndrome and has relied on the service for approximately 20 years was advised on Wednesday that he would have to arrange his own transport to get to the service. Heretofore, buses used to transport service users from 8 a.m. to 10 a. m....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (18 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome the Minister of State’s response, but it is important to get those stakeholders together as quickly as we can because I believe it is resolvable. From my point of view, it is about the people who need the service and the transport. As I said, an older man who had been using the services for 20 years was told, all of a sudden, that he no longer had transport. He cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to support a special school (details supplied) to keep its classes open for children with autism. [51278/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Independent Review Mechanism (18 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 810. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove any roadblocks by Government Departments to the setting up of the independent radiation therapist review (details supplied) in addition to his commitment to implement any recommendations which could emanate from the review dealing with the crisis in recruitment and retention of radiation therapists and or service improvements like advanced...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this Private Members' motion. I endorse its calls to: - ensure all survivors of Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, related institutions, unlawful or forced adoption, and abuse in boarding out and adoptive placements receive redress; - use the findings of the OAK Report as a basis for the redress scheme; - remove the six-month time-based criteria...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I do not know whether the Minister is aware of the situation facing water service workers in local authorities. They have been working under a service-level agreement whereby they are employed by local authorities and provide services to Irish Water. That was due to end in 2026. Today and tomorrow, water services workers are withdrawing their services from Irish Water in Cork south,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (20 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I am disappointed that no Minister or Minister of State from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is present. This is an important issue that has been going on for a long time. Bogus self-employment is an area in which I have a great deal of interest, and I was part of the social welfare committee's report into the matter. We now know that there is more bogus self-employment...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (20 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State for providing a breakdown of the various statutory bodies that make determinations on the employment status of a person for the purpose of PRSI, but this situation involves workers with nearly 20 years of service who are being told that they have no pension rights, will not be allowed into the staff pension scheme and so on. I received a message from one of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (20 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: That review does not relate to these workers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I have been listening intently for the past hour and a half. As was said earlier on, in some ways I am probably more confused than I was when I came in. This probably reflects the frustration and confusion felt by these children and their families. I do not think that after this meeting, they will feel there is light at the end of the tunnel. Deputy Carroll MacNeill got to the crux of it,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (25 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made to date in the roll-out of fast charging points for electric vehicles across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53131/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Bus Services (25 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 690. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to a bus service. [53439/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Bus Services (25 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 691. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available for services (details supplied). [53440/22]