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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I was not going to intervene in this debate because I had made a conscious decision to let it go through, even with some of the comments made by anti-choice Deputies in the Chamber. However, I want to make the important point that a referendum was held and that one of the key issues was trusting women. The people were clear that women should not have to travel abroad to have an abortion, as...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: Subsection (7)(b) of the new section proposed in amendment No. 46 refers to information that should be offered to any woman who is given a diagnosis of a life-limiting condition for her son or daughter. This is a particularly important subsection as we have all heard many stories of parents who received a heart-breaking diagnosis indicating their child might not live long. One horrifyingly...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 37. To ask the Minister for Health if staff and resources will be provided in order to resolve a situation (details supplied) regarding the Dublin south west school age team [50999/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: There are 298 children on the Dublin south west school age team's waiting list. A further 18 are awaiting transition from the early intervention team to the school age team's waiting list. The waiting time to see the school age team is 41 months which is growing monthly in circumstances in which the team does not have the capacity to safely take on additional cases. There has been no...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State. This situation has developed in the past two to three years. The team in CHO 7 has flagged the pressure it is under and the fact that waiting lists have been stagnant for the past 41 months. In reply to an earlier question I was told that there had been no movement on the waiting list in the past ten months owing to the volume of children transitioning from...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: I take on board the Minister of State's point about problems in recruiting staff to fill these positions. I took up the issue initially on behalf of a young lad with severe autism in foster care. He went through the Cheeverstown House process and Abacus special school and discharged to the school age team in Chamber House in Tallaght and placed on its waiting list three years ago. He was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 82. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE is responding to a situation (details supplied); and his plans to deal with same [50644/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 93. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which Article 44 of the Constitution will not impact on the new national maternity hospital in St. Vincent’s University Hospital in delivering abortion healthcare services (details supplied). [50591/18]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: The Christmas bonus is welcome. People have been struggling in recent years and it is a significant boost to their income at this time of the year. It will be welcomed by millions of people in the State. It is great that it has been reinstated in full. We know that many thousands of people are caring for parents or siblings in the home and the Minister referred to the "lower number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 396. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in GP GMS contracts nationally; and his views on whether only 306 new general practitioners with GMS contracts from 2008 to 2018 is low. [50586/18]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: The social welfare appeals office.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: It is Deputy Collins.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: I was unable to be present for the Committee Stage debate and I did not table any amendments to the Bill. However, I support a number of the amendments tabled on Report Stage, particularly this one. We know this practice has been ongoing since the late 1990s. It particularly affects couriers, delivery van drivers and those in the construction industry. A recent State project in Dolphin's...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: On a point of order, or for clarification, the last group of amendments included amendments Nos. 5 to 10, inclusive, and Nos. 57 and 58. Have we moved on from that discussion?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: I will be brief because Deputy Clare Daly covered most of the points I would like to have made. This is one of the most important parts of the debate we will have tonight. We cannot ignore the World Health Organization's warning of what keeping criminalisation in a Bill on women's health and abortion can impose on doctors or others, such as a sister or a mother. If a daughter is approaching...

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: This Bill is a no brainer. I certainly will support it and I thank Deputy Stanley for bringing it forward. It will enable households, small businesses and farmers to receive payments for electricity generation from renewable energy sources. This Private Member's Bill would force energy providers, notably the ESB, to buy electricity produced by microgenerators, including small communities,...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (27 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: I will also be brief. On amendment No. 2, to avoid the word "abortion" on the advice of the Attorney General because it is not in the Constitution is a very weak argument. The legislation does not have to mirror the Constitution word for word. An example was given by Deputy Catherine Murphy in regard to forming associations. The Constitution also talks about "dissolution of marriage" yet...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (22 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next tranche of moneys will be provided for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme (details supplied). [48748/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: There could be more done for the health service.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (20 Nov 2018)

Joan Collins: 478. To ask the Minister for Health when the building of a unit (details supplied) will be commenced; when the building of the unit will be completed; and if these commitments will be fully included in the HSE service and capital plan for 2019. [48329/18]