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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I was listening intently to the debate this morning on the tenant in situ scheme. I need to ask the Minister a specific question. I have been dealing with the Housing Agency. A family living in my estate is approved for the Housing Agency's cost-rental tenant in situ scheme. The two-bedroom house went on the market for €290,000. It appears the Housing Agency bid for it but a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I do not.

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

Joan Collins: Yes, I do.

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

Joan Collins: That is why we have the problem.

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

Joan Collins: Shame.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I have raised this issue before but I want to raise it again before the recess. Workers in community and voluntary sector posts not in receipt of funding through HSE channels are not technically section 39 organisation workers. I refer to workers in organisations such as local drugs and alcohol task force groups. Such workers have been excluded from pay restoration and WRC processes. In...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: That would be appreciated.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I welcome this motion and I commend the Social Democrats for bringing it forward. Adopting a zero-tolerance approach to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is absolutely crucial in the context of what we have seen in recent times. Every week there seems to be another issue of violence against women or undermining of women in their sporting careers, their workplace, or when they are...

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]