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Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy Doherty for tabling this Private Members' motion. Two reports have come out over the past month about the everyday reality for people in Ireland. One is from Barnardos, on food poverty in Ireland, and one is from Oxfam, on wealth inequality. They reveal two starkly different experiences of living in this country. Just two people in this country have nearly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: I have a few questions to ask which have been touched on already by other Deputies and Senators, particularly the one around the annual ministerial statement to the Dáil. I see the need for that. It is something this committee has to discuss in detail and put a huge emphasis on in the report we will bring out. Ms Gibney emphasised that point well. I will touch on the points made by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: It was unfortunate that the audio was dropping all the time and I did not catch much of what the doctor said. I will pick it up from the video, the transcript or Oireachtas TV.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (14 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 437. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a location (details supplied) has been prepared to facilitate IP applicants or Ukrainians fleeing war. [7028/23]

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: The housing situation is a crisis for everyone in the country. More and more people are feeling it. It is just getting worse. Doctors and nurses cannot find homes. Some 70% of young people are considering having to leave the country. High rents and mortgages are affecting families all over the country and we have over 11,500 people in emergency accommodation. That is the highest figure...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: This is a moral and political issue, namely, whether we provide for our elderly and pay what people are owed or drag them through prolonged legal battles to cut costs. The fact remains that thousands of people who were entitled to State care were denied it. This was covered up, and when it came out successive Governments, led by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Green Party and the Labour...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (9 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is actively seeking to give a double payment of social welfare payments to assist with meeting costs, given that inflation is still running at just below 9%, the price of groceries has gone up by 15% and gas bills have gone up by nearly 60%. [6126/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the statistics of exceptional needs payments from the two Intreo offices in the Dublin 8 and Dublin 12 areas for November 2022, December 2022 and January 2023. [6134/23]

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism, of which I am a member, for pushing for this debate to take place today. I welcome the report on the summer programme produced by the committee. From her work, the Minister of State will be aware of the background and details of many of the parents and groups, and she will have heard their testimonies at the committee hearings last year on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (2 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has completed its review from the 63 schools that piloted filling out the education component of the assessment of need; if it is the intention of her Department to roll out this process beyond the pilot scheme; if so, when; and if a school (details supplied) was included in the pilot scheme. [5479/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (2 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: In reply to a written question on this issue, the Minister stated the trial involving 63 schools was completed in December. Has the Department completed its review relating to the 63 schools that piloted filling out the education component of the assessment of need, AON? Does the Department intend to roll out the process beyond the pilot scheme? If so, when? Was a particular school, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (2 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. She stated that, since yesterday, the NCSE will write to any school that needs an education assessment on the AON. In October, the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO, AsIAm and other organisations such as Inclusion Ireland expressed concern about this process. AsIAm stated the Department of Education and its agencies require education...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (2 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: AsIAm notes the inclusion of "carry out" in the wording of the Act and states that the process principals were being asked to do does not sound like conducting an assessment but, rather, simply collating existing information. It went on to say that even if principals had the knowledge and felt confident to do the assessment, there would be a conflict of interest. Principals assign the...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: Yes, I will only take as much as I need. I thank everyone who spoke on the Private Members' motion. It really reflected the difficulties that communities are having with regard to large developments being built in their areas. I agree with Deputy Pringle that it would have been better if the Government had voted against it or tabled an amendment to it because the communities would have...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: Are copies of the Minister of State's remarks available?

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — as demand for housing continues to grow, thousands of housing units will need to be built in the State, largely in sizeable and concentrated developments; — urban and rural communities around large population centres will see substantial increases in population as new developments are built; — increases in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (1 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 372 and 415 of 14 June 2022, if he will provide an update in relation to the Disabled Drivers' Medical Board of Appeal (details supplied). [4957/23]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Joan Collins: Like everyone who read the report on CAMHS last week, I was shocked by the lack of care and badly needed reform provided by the Government for some of the most vulnerable children in this country. In common with everybody I have spoken to regarding this area, I am deeply worried about the Government's plans to address the crisis. These do not reflect the urgency of the situation and do not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Joan Collins: The Taoiseach says that inflation is slowing down. It is still at a high of 8.9% or 9%, depending on who one gets figures from. People are still facing huge costs in their daily lives. The end of February is only four weeks away. The review will be in two weeks. The Government will have to come out of the box very quickly to explain what supports it will give to people. Will there be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Joan Collins: I share the concerns and questions voiced by Deputies McDonald and Shortall about public nursing homes but I want to raise the issue of the cost of living. A recently published Red C survey outlined some of the struggles people still face with the cost-of-living crisis. It found that 30% of people struggle to make ends meet, with young people and elderly people being hit the worst. Only 9%...