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Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Cullinane for tabling this motion on home care. It is important that this crisis in home care be discussed openly and as often as possible. It is one of the many areas of healthcare that are affected by the recruitment and retention crisis and it is playing havoc with people’s health, particularly that of elderly mothers and fathers. I support the 12 demands set...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the fuel portion of the household benefits package has not increased at all in budget 2023, to ensure that recipients of same would not be at risk of fuel poverty this winter. [55545/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons aged 70 years and over receiving the household benefits package; and the number of that cohort who are also in receipt of fuel allowance.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55544/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 948. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied). [54334/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 981. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be placed on an “active list” with the CDNT. [54453/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 982. To ask the Minister for Health when a matter (details supplied) will be resolved. [54454/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 994. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the next-of-kin of a person (details supplied) was informed of the revocation of their admission to a hospital for reasons which have yet to fully transpire. [54501/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank everybody for coming in. It has been fascinating listening to the work they have been involved in, particularly the animal-centric approach. All the questions I had intended asking have been asked. I will pick up on recruitment and retention. St. Joseph's Foundation was asked if it is feeling the effects that services are feeling and we heard the service is down 25% to 30% on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I will make one other point. I understand the point about the international situation and trying to plug the gap by recruiting from other countries. It is worldwide problem, is it not? Places like Australia are recruiting from Ireland, while we are recruiting from Third World countries that lack the staff they need for their services. We have to look at our own students and start thinking,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (25 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made to date in the roll-out of fast charging points for electric vehicles across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53131/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Bus Services (25 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 690. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) in relation to a bus service. [53439/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Bus Services (25 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 691. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available for services (details supplied). [53440/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (20 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: That review does not relate to these workers.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (20 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I am disappointed that no Minister or Minister of State from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is present. This is an important issue that has been going on for a long time. Bogus self-employment is an area in which I have a great deal of interest, and I was part of the social welfare committee's report into the matter. We now know that there is more bogus self-employment...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (20 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State for providing a breakdown of the various statutory bodies that make determinations on the employment status of a person for the purpose of PRSI, but this situation involves workers with nearly 20 years of service who are being told that they have no pension rights, will not be allowed into the staff pension scheme and so on. I received a message from one of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I do not know whether the Minister is aware of the situation facing water service workers in local authorities. They have been working under a service-level agreement whereby they are employed by local authorities and provide services to Irish Water. That was due to end in 2026. Today and tomorrow, water services workers are withdrawing their services from Irish Water in Cork south,...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this Private Members' motion. I endorse its calls to: - ensure all survivors of Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, related institutions, unlawful or forced adoption, and abuse in boarding out and adoptive placements receive redress; - use the findings of the OAK Report as a basis for the redress scheme; - remove the six-month time-based criteria...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (18 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: Last Thursday, I was contacted by constituents, parents and service users about St. Michael's House, 18 Cromwellsfort Road, Dublin 12. A man who has Apert syndrome and has relied on the service for approximately 20 years was advised on Wednesday that he would have to arrange his own transport to get to the service. Heretofore, buses used to transport service users from 8 a.m. to 10 a. m....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (18 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome the Minister of State’s response, but it is important to get those stakeholders together as quickly as we can because I believe it is resolvable. From my point of view, it is about the people who need the service and the transport. As I said, an older man who had been using the services for 20 years was told, all of a sudden, that he no longer had transport. He cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to support a special school (details supplied) to keep its classes open for children with autism. [51278/22]