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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether any capital funding or supports have been contributed to the construction or maintenance of the primary care centre on the Navan Road; and if he can confirm any ongoing supports currently available to the centre. [58914/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 640. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of the results of the HSE investigation into the recreational use of nitrous oxide canisters by young people; the programmes that are currently available to tackle the issue; and the measures that are being considered to ban the sale or use of these canisters. [58916/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I fully support this amendment. We have a duty of care to health workers, cleaners etc., in particular, to those workers we asked to work in retail shops, and to all those working in areas on the front line. If we received a report on this, we might then seriously consider there should be an occupational illness for people with Covid-19. I have met so many people in my constituency who...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 8: In page 8, after line 32, to insert the following: “(1) Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall prepare and lay before the Oireachtas a report on the benefits, or not, to benchmark and index welfare rates against inflation.”. The Minister knows I raised this last week and before that. Age Action Ireland has performed a...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome that. The Minister has said it will be completed by quarter 2 and in September 2023, social welfare will be linked into the budget for 2024. I welcome that and, on that basis, I will withdraw my amendment.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: One of the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community was: The audit [in recommendation No. 68] should include the mobile homes or caravans that are used as permanent dwellings. In the case of people/families wishing to remain living in caravans/mobile homes where they are deficient, they should be immediately replaced by new caravans/mobile...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: I agree entirely with Deputy Ó Cuiv. There seems to be a mealy-mouthed response across the board to the Travelling community. If a Travelling family goes to their local authority and says that it needs to change their caravan as it is 20 years old or whatever, they should be able to access the money to do it. It should not be a question of continuing to sleep in the cold. We have had...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: Where is it then?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: Will the Minister of State provide the evidence about what was drawn down last year and the beginning of this year?

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing this important Private Members' motion to the Dáil. I welcome all the groups in the Public Gallery. I will refer to an email from a constituent who lives in the Tramyard apartments in Inchicore. As an apartment owner, she has been asked to pay an initial €7,000 for essential fire safety remedial works by the end of November, which was...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commemorative Events (7 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the latest update on the progress of the planning application for the new commemorative bridge and entrance plaza linking the Irish National War Memorial Gardens to Conyngham Road and the Phoenix Park; if the planning application has been lodged; if funding has been made available for a full procurement process; and if work will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (7 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the progress with the City Edge project, funded under call 1 of the urban regeneration and development fund; the way the project has evolved in a statutory plan; the level of financial and other support from him; and the level of commitment from various State agencies to deliver key infrastructure. [61235/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: 80. To ask the Minister for Health when a full complement of therapists will be provided to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [58408/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that learner drivers whose NCT certificate has expired can sit their test in their own car if they have proof of an NCT booking. [61449/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Qualifications Recognition (8 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will confirm the qualifications which will replace the QQI certificate for driving instructors; the body that will have responsibility for same; the comparable educational value that this new certification will have; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61450/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise the issue of autistic children in mainstream schools who are excluded from the special care dental programme that autistic children in special schools and in special class are included in. I tabled a parliamentary question on this matter after I was contacted by the Dublin 12 Campaign 4 Autism Inclusion in relation to a health centre on Old County Road, Crumlin. The reply...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: Can I just ask the question? Why are autistic children in the mainstream being excluded from the special care dental programme? Why are dental services not resourced to provide that care?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: They should not.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: Will that be addressed?

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: The Minister is not responsible for the crisis in housing. The crisis is a result of an approach taken as far back as the 1980s when the State adopted a policy of not building public housing and relying solely on the private sector. The problem is based on the fact that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Labour Party and the Green Party bear responsibility for this. What the Minister is...