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

Joan Collins: Okay.

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

Joan Collins: Yes. I thank Mr. Smithers.

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

Joan Collins: The LTACC is looking at ways to help Travellers start their own businesses in the circular economy. Could Dublin City Council send the committee information on that?

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

Joan Collins: I am delighted that we are moving on. The situation relating to the flood and the contamination is mainly on the left hand side of Labre Park. Is this part of the park going to be kept for bays? It is probably really important that a community centre is there, particularly for after school. I do not see where on the site it could be put. Has any part of the site been allocated to that?...

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

Joan Collins: Could Mr. Smithers reply to the question on the community centre?

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

Joan Collins: Yes, thank you very much, Chair.

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." On behalf of the Right2Change party, I am delighted to introduce this simple but impactful Bill, which will strengthen trade unions, make it easier for workers to join a union and take a trade union-busting tactic off the table when workers are negotiating for their own pay and conditions. This Bill recognises both the importance of...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Neither did one member of Fianna Fáil or the Green Party come along to it.

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I did not know that.

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I apologise. I did not see any TDs from his party. It is a threat that I hear is made more and more against trade unions. The member representing the FSU said that it is finding it more and more the case and that it has a severe chilling effect on collective bargaining. The threat has been used repeatedly by some employers to bend trade unions to their will during negotiations with a...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Absolutely.

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I will first thank my PA, Naoise McTeirnan and David Gibney, who assisted in developing this Bill. The Bill addresses a problem that the Minister of State has failed to deal with. Employers are using the removal or threat of removal of all or some of a deduction at source agreement as a bargaining chip in collective bargaining negotiations. If the Minister of State had been at the meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank everyone who has come in. This is the first time I have grappled with the concept behind EnergyCloud. I have heard of it, but was not too aware of how it operates. To clarify, when the wind picks up this excess wind energy, that can be siphoned off to people who are linked into EnergyCloud. People can switch off their immersions and get free electricity to heat their immersions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: On a low income.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has investigated a scenario (details supplied) and how this can be resolved so that anyone in a similar situation can be automatically paid. [8899/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision on an application for fuel allowance can be reviewed (details supplied). [9743/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (6 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: 178. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the current waiting times for children in Dublin north to receive an assessment of need; and the current waiting times in the rest of Dublin and nationally. [10934/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: 187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current Children's Disability Network Team waiting times in Dublin North, the rest of Dublin and nationally. [10945/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: First, I wish to put on the record of the House that I agree a general election should be called now. The main question I wish to put to the Taoiseach, though, is on behalf of a group of men who as children were sexually abused in day schools by Christian Brothers. All the perpetrators were subsequently convicted. Sexual abuse is all about power and control. In the Taoiseach's 2019...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: I pose this question from the victims. In the Taoiseach's view, is the State apology and the promise he made in July 2019 now diminished?