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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State.

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I received an email from the Dublin 12 Campaign 4 Autism Inclusion about today's debate. The group asked me to raise special education provision in the Crumlin and Drimnagh areas. They feel they have been forgotten, even though a special needs school, for which they campaigned, opened in Crumlin recently. They say that Dublin 12 still needs autism classes, especially at secondary schools...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. First, I thank Deputy Harkin for bringing this motion to the Dáil Chamber today. It is a very important discussion to take place. The Minister of State really only referenced the nursing home area in this, and the motion also raised the issue of childcare.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Okay.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: That is no problem. I did not hear the Minister of State say that. I generally feel that what we are seeing in our childcare and nursing home sectors are the same old repeated failures of this Government and successive governments under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, with the PDs wagging the tail of the dog a few decades ago with their neoliberal agenda of privatisation of our public...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I wish to warmly welcome the survivors, relatives and members of the Justice for the Forgotten group who are in the Public Gallery this evening. I had the privilege of meeting them today for the first time. I have to say that I am disappointed in myself and I apologise to them for not playing more of a role and linking in with them as a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Yesterday, we welcomed some members of the families of the 27 victims of the Dublin bombing and the seven who lost their lives in Monaghan, along with representatives of the Justice for the Forgotten group, to the Dáil for the debate on Sinn Féin's motion for the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. I welcomed that motion and the families welcomed the fact that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Last night, the Tánaiste said in this House: Today, we mourn with [the families] the great loss suffered by the victims of the bombs of 17 May 1974. We offer our humble acknowledgement of the obstacles [they] have overcome and the mountain [they] have climbed to get your campaign to where it is today. We recognise our own past shortcomings as a State and political system. On this...

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

Joan Collins: I have raised several times the severe lack of certain services across the Dublin 12 area due to a localised lack of public health nurses. We have seen resources taken from one centre and given to another, as was the case with the temporary transfer of nurses from Curlew Road in Drimnagh to Armagh Road in Crumlin. There is one public health nurse for child checks and one for older persons....

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

Joan Collins: The question was on the primary care centre.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Joan Collins: And then take actions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Publish it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Last month the country's leading cancer specialist published an open letter to the Government on the state of cancer care in Ireland. It said dedicated funding for Ireland’s national cancer strategy has been delivered in only two of the past seven budgets. It said Ireland’s cancer outcomes are at risk of going backwards. Yesterday it was reported that there is another layer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 May 2024)

Joan Collins: 628. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on delivering a primary care centre (details supplied); and the date for the report's findings to be announced. [22861/24]

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I also welcome the Palestinian ambassador here today and everyone who was in the Gallery earlier. I will start by sending solidarity to the 1 million Palestinians besieged by the Israeli onslaught in Rafah. Ireland and the world is standing in shock and horror at what we are seeing unfold. Now we must come together to force Israel to stop this genocide. It was a proud day last week...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Joan Collins: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a young child receives a school placement by September 2024 (details supplied). [23851/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: No one was surprised by the failures of the Government's housing policy that were laid out in last week's report from the Housing Commission. I see those failures every day in my constituency office when I meet people struggling to pay rent or find a home, stuck on housing lists for 16 to 18 years and stuck in homelessness. The desperation out there is a direct result of the housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Not according to the commission.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply but it does not answer my question. The situation in Ireland is that 5,000 people have entered emergency accommodation since the ban on no-fault evictions was lifted last year. Terminations of tenancies rose by 20% after the ban was lifted, with more than 19,000 households issued with eviction notices last year. We have record homelessness. More...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Joan Collins: It is recommending stopping them.