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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: I support amendments Nos. 27 to 30, inclusive. They are very practical amendments to the Bill. The Minister should take them on board. However, I will take the opportunity tonight, because it is probably the last time I will get the opportunity to speak on this, to read two or three accounts from people who sent emails. We have been bombarded with emails in the past couple of weeks. I...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance if insurance cover for an event (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8290/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Sector Pensions (21 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will intervene to ensure that museum staff pensioners get paid their FEMPI pension payment restoration with immediate effect (details supplied). [8256/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (21 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 345. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8498/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 748. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the energy support scheme for community and voluntary organisations that do not qualify for the community voluntary sector energy support scheme (details supplied). [8455/23]

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: I support the Bill, in line with the Irish League of Credit Unions, as an important first step to achieving a policy framework that allows the credit union movement to strengthen and to grow. I repeat its calls that the Bill needs substantive amendment on Committee Stage to realise the policy and core objectives intended. Credit unions have long been a vital part of people's lives in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: I do not think there is too much we can say about the reports. They are very detailed. A lot of thought has gone into them. At the end of the day, we are dealing with a situation that is not of the witnesses' making. It is due to the HSE's approach to setting up the CDNTs when it did not have the staff ready to go into them and setting up the preliminary team assessment. I remember...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: I was contacted by a parent and activist in the Dublin 12 area who argues that families should be given a grant to access services privately. Even though there are long waiting lists for private services and assessments of need, if and when cancellations come up, parents could access those services if they had a grant. Would such an interim measure solve some of the problems around access...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Commission (28 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Electoral Commission will be set up and running for submissions. [10104/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (28 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the expansion of the hot meals programme into primary schools will take place (details supplied). [9800/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (28 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 659. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) should have her pension of £179.30 paid to the public nursing home. [10145/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: For weeks now this Government has been equivocating on whether or not to extend the eviction ban while people who are living on a knife edge are worrying how they are going to pay the rent and their bills and if they will have a home in the coming months or not. Calls are coming from every sector that deals with housing on the dire need to extend the ban. Threshold has had hundreds of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: The relevant figure is 10,798.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: It is the case.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: More than 3,000 people could be facing termination notices at the end of March. What has the Government put in place to provide emergency services for many of those people if, for example, the local authority will not buy the house due to structural issues? I was contacted by a family facing eviction. The council stated that it cannot buy the house in question. The family has a severely...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: What about those who are not on a local authority housing list? I ask that the Minister come to the House next week to explain any decision in respect of the eviction ban.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (2 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he agrees with bus services being withdrawn from communities as part of the BusConnects strategy (details supplied). [9464/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (2 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: My question asks whether the Minister agrees with the withdrawal of services from communities as part of the BusConnects strategy. In particular, I raise the issues around the 68, 69 and 13 bus routes, which run through Bluebell, Inchicore, Kilmainham, the South Circular Road and Thomas Street. Those services are going to be withdrawn at the end of the second half of this year and replaced...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (2 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. I do not know if he knows the area in question. Bluebell, the Kylemore Road, Inchicore village, Grattan Crescent and Bulfin Estate are all served by the 68, 69 and 13 bus routes. The 13 bus brings people to Thomas Street. The 69 bus brings people down by the Gaelscoil in Islandbridge. The 68 bus brings people to Clanbrassil Street, Camden Street and the eye and ear...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (2 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: The Minister mentioned the Luas connection. I do not use the Luas in the morning despite the fact I live in Inchicore. I do not use it at peak times because the carriages are too packed and it is impossible to get into them. People are squashed into them. I rely on the connectivity provided by the bus service. Those three buses services are going to be withdrawn and replaced with one bus...