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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special needs, to date, who have no school place for September 2024, by catchment area; her plans to ensure these children get places near to where they live; and the number of places vacant to take these children, by catchment area. [30278/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: This is a very specific question to specific issues in my own area in Dublin 12. I would welcome the Minister of State’s response.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I have looked back at the announcements made last December when the previous Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, stated that the Department would increase services into the schools. The Minister of State said the NCSE announced a new campaign on 16 October 2023 to recruit additional special education needs organisers and this recruitment is well under way. Can she tell me how many additional...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I know we are quite tight for time. Perhaps the Minister of State will come back on a few of these things in a few minutes or later on. There have been no NCSE applications in a number of secondary schools in the Dublin 12 area. Will the Minister of State use the section 37A process on those schools? I think she knows the names of the schools. I gave them to her as part of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: According to Irish Water-Uisce Éireann's 2023 annual report, published last month, there was €10.57 million paid in bonuses to the company's staff, a 7% increase on 2022. We know from previous annual reports these bonuses are stacked towards the top earners. In 2021, bonuses averaged €6,560 per staff member, yet the top earners received €19,171 each. There was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I welcome that Uisce Éireann will now be audited. It is about time. Its 2023 accounts will probably not go to the public accounts committee until next year, however, as it will not produce its report until the end of 2024. I am putting on record the issues that are happening within Irish Water. The Minister of State made the point it is not a publicly owned regulated utility. That...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the ongoing delay in Ireland ratifying the Budapest Convention, which, apart from cyber crime, is also a renowned convention to stop child pornography; and to provide a likely date for when we will proceed with this. [29466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 523. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the ongoing delay in Ireland's inability to ratify the Budapest Convention (details supplied); and the date when Ireland will proceed with this. [29465/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to scrap article 19A of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992 (details supplied); and if she will ensure that article 19A does not apply to child victims of sexual abuse. [29443/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 521. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to remove Article 19A of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992, whereby in certain criminal cases the private counselling/therapy records of the victim of sexual abuse can be made available to the accused (details supplied). [29449/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 522. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the likely date of ratification of the second optional protocol on the UNCRC on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as Ireland is now one of only 20 countries yet to ratify the protocol. [29462/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 670. To ask the Minister for Health the situation regarding beds at St. James's Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29149/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 672. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients from an area (details supplied) are being directed to Santry; and the number of patients who have been redirected from a named health clinic to the Santry south side. [29160/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 282. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [30115/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will use the 37A process on three schools (details supplied). [30276/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 28 May 2024, and her statement that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is working with the mother of the young child trying to get a school placement (details supplied), if she will liaise with the NCSE to attempt to find a place for the child in the new school. [30279/24]

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: The Apple tax ruling shows who this country is run for. This is a country run by the rich for the rich. We are a wealthy country but working-class people and communities and rural communities see very little of this. The top 1% in Ireland has €232 billion in wealth whereas the bottom 50% owns €9 billion. There is an inequality crisis in Ireland. There is a deep need for...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with my three colleagues. I am supporting the Private Members' motion from Sinn Féin on this childcare payment, as I would support any Private Members' motion calling for more money to be put into people's pockets. Childcare is one of the biggest costs to working families and it is a growing cost that is pricing parents, particularly women, out of employment. It is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: Shame.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: Yes, I do.