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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: No, that is it. I thank the staff, as other members have done.

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) 2024: First Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024. This Bill will: impose an obligation on employers, when requested in writing by an employee, to make deductions from the wages of such employee, and, not later than 21 days, remit the amount deducted, along with the written notice of the information...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) 2024: First Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process used for advertising for the STEM grant in December 2023; and the process for the selection of schools for the STEM grant. [5868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (13 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all DEIS schools that applied for the recent STEM grant received the grant; the number of DEIS schools that applied for the STEM grant; and the number that were successful. [5887/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (13 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS schools were weighted in comparison to non-DEIS school funding/finances in the application process for the recent STEM grant funds. [5877/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I have received a number of emails in relation to the lack of community neuro-rehabilitation in CHO 7, which covers part of the constituency I represent, and I gave a commitment I would raise the matter. Only 15% of people countrywide have access to a community neuro-rehabilitation team. Under the implementation framework for the nuero-rehabilitation strategy launched in 2019, a team was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (15 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the referendums on Housing as a right and the public ownership and management of Uisce Éireann will take place. [6911/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update in relation to the case of persons who do not qualify for cost rental or social housing (details supplied). [6910/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (15 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the measures he is taking to ensure Irish Water fulfils the State's obligation to rid public and private drinking water supplies of all toxins above EU safety limits (details supplied). [6932/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank our witnesses very much for the report. It seems there are a great many things going on behind the scenes between interdepartmental groups, action plans, heat plans etc. I want to go back to the point made at the very beginning which was about fairness for access to the retrofitting. I still do not believe that fairness is there. Has the interdepartmental group looked at this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Is there any way for people to talk to someone over a counter about this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: If Mr. Deegan could send us that information, it would be very much appreciated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I have one last question. Are the loans, grants and tax incentives for landlords linked to the fact that the landlord cannot remove a tenant or increase the rent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Mr. Deegan says his Department has regular meetings with the relevant Departments. Has that issue ever been discussed?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I want to raise the serious issue of the physical segregation of Part 5 council tenants in private developments. We have several examples of Part 5 council tenants all over Dublin being housed in one block or area of a development and physically separated from other private tenants or occupants. We have all heard the stories of the segregation of Part 5 tenants as regards the lack of access...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I would not agree with the Tánaiste. It is not about the physical cost; rather, it is about the maintenance cost of segregation. That is the argument that was put forward. A contract was signed with Dublin City Council and tenants which we are looking into in more detail in terms of access to amenities. The Tánaiste must remember that the Davitt complex was built as a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: We have met two of them and they said all that, but it says in the contract that DCC has access to the amenities-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the representatives from Dublin City Council and Galway City Council who have responsibility for the Traveller community. I thank them for the reports. I will not ask about caravan costs; it will just waste time as it has been clarified. We now know what we have to do in that regard. I will certainly push it, as will the committee. I will ask Mr. Smithers about Dublin City...