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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric urologist registrars working in CHI Crumlin in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [5639/24]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Chair and I thank the witnesses from Mayo County Council and Cork City Council for their attendance. We all agree that the housing issue is a serious issue for the settled communities, the Travelling community and any other community. It is a crisis issue and it has not happened overnight. The role of this committee is to hold the local authorities' feet to the fire, not so...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Does Mr. Ó Donnabháin foresee that any family will be forced to go onto particular sites? I will not say they are unauthorised sites, but will they be forced to reside at the side of a road?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Is he confident of this?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: What is the position with the Traveller accommodation programme development plan?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I accept what Mr. Ó Donnabháin is saying. It is part of the development plan and it will not restrict them. How is Mayo adopting its plans to ensure the future eight-year plan, with a mind to a growing community there, with regard to Traveller accommodation?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: There are officially 580 families in Cork. It was stated that there are 472 Traveller households in Mayo. Are those people already living in accommodation or are there figures for the Travelling community populations in both Cork and Mayo? Do they have figures for how many people identify themselves as Travellers in Cork city and Mayo?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Do the witnesses have an official information on the number of people in their areas who are part of the Travelling community? Are there 1,000 or 2,000 households?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Mr. Gilligan is saying that he officially knows of 472 Traveller households and that they are broken down in that way. Does that encapsulate the whole Travelling community in Mayo?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: But 472 for a county like Mayo is a small number of people or families. I fail to understand how we did not grasp this ten years ago in the context of accommodation for the Travelling community in the county. It beggars belief. I thank the witnesses and appreciate their answers.

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Gino Kenny and People Before Profit for introducing the Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022. I welcome this Bill and I will be supporting it. I also welcome the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use report released last week. The citizens' assembly report has given the Government a mandate to move this country's national drug policy away from a focus on punishment and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State said that social housing support is provided for those most in need. Years ago, in the 1970s and so on, social housing was provided to bus drivers, train drivers, post office workers and shop workers on an average income. Such workers were able to go on the housing list and many got social housing. That has changed drastically in recent decades. The concept of a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: Does the Minister of State know how long that process is going to take because this is happening now?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I would have liked to have seen the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the House because this is a very important issue. I have dealt with several constituents over the past while who are stuck in the gap between the social housing income threshold and the income thresholds for the new Land Development Agency cost-rental projects. Many people find themselves in this...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I welcome last week's provisional ruling by the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to take all measures to prevent a genocide. It has been clear from the start of Israel's assault on Gaza that it has instead been taking all measures to ensure a genocide. We have failed in our moral and legal obligation to do anything to stop it. The news of the ICJ case has been dampened by the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: Last Thursday, Ireland was convicted in the European Court of Justice for having toxins in drinking water above EU safety levels. The court found that drinking water for nearly 240,000 people, in 23 of the 54 water supplies across the State, have levels of trihalomethanes, THMs, with the State failing in its obligation to rid public and private water supplies of toxins. The court said that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: How will it do damage?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (30 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: 512. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the withdrawal of funding for vital diabetic services by the HSE; and the reason such services have been withdrawn (details supplied). [3834/24]

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Social Democrats for introducing this important motion. It has been put to the House at a critical stage during the terror that is being imposed on the Gazan people. "Israel's military operations have spread mass destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented during my time as secretary-general," are the words of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres. During...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I am speaking on behalf of the Independent Group. As we speak, Israel is assaulting the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, a city it previously declared as a safe zone for refugees. This is not the first atrocity we have seen Israel commit since it invaded Gaza and it will not be the last. It is just one of the many atrocities against civilians we have witnessed, and will witness, as the...