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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I have listened to what was discussed here. What does the Teaching Council believe could be done to facilitate students in the July provision and in schools? Ms Fox referred to the seven programmes, one of which is inclusive education. Ms Fox stated that all 116,000 teachers can teach an autistic child with special needs. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I would like that clarified because I believe we are going around in circles with regard to the Teaching Council. The council seems to be only looking after the actual qualifications and that teachers are registered with those qualifications. What I am getting back from Ms Fox is that thereafter, the council has no role in this regard, so we are going to have to go somewhere else for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank Ms Fox for that clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: In that case, we really should not have a problem around July provision or children's education. I seek clarification that this is what Ms Fox is saying as the Teaching Council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Disability Matters
Accessibility in the Built Environment, Information and Communication: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I am very humbled, listening to the experiences of the speakers. As a person who has full faculties, I understand there are some issues but I do not have the lived experience of people. I had the pleasure of knowing Dermot Walsh who was an advocate for independent living. He worked full time with Dublin Bus advocating for disabled access for transport. Is there somebody there who took his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Autism
Accessibility in the Built Environment, Information and Communication: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I am very humbled, listening to the experiences of the speakers. As a person who has full faculties, I understand there are some issues but I do not have the lived experience of people. I had the pleasure of knowing Dermot Walsh who was an advocate for independent living. He worked full time with Dublin Bus advocating for disabled access for transport. Is there somebody there who took his...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I raised a number of issues regarding the budget during my speech yesterday. The budget had two key tasks; to cap and reduce energy prices and to target supports at those most in need. I pointed out that the Government did not fundamentally succeed in either task. While we welcome some of the initiatives, such as the once-off payment, the most straightforward, effective way to deal with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (28 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he and his Department will intervene to assist homeowners in an area (details supplied) in relation to payment of bills of €68,000 to rectify the absence of fire and safety regulations in the buildings. [47404/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget but I think, as my colleague, Deputy Pringle, said, is just a bit of a performance, with us all standing up speaking on a budget that has been out in the media for the last week. I want to mention some statistics not referred to by the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. The figures are courtesy of the Society of St....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (27 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: 562. To ask the Minister for Health when a health and safety inspection was carried out on a premises (details supplied); and if he will request the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to visit the premises and to advise this Deputy of same. [47224/22]

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I am supporting the motion. The latest figures for fuel poverty seem to be from 2017. At the time, it was estimated that 475,000 households were affected by fuel poverty or, in other words, had to spend 10% of their income on heating their home. There is no up-to-date strategy to deal with fuel poverty. The retrofitting of homes has to be a key element of combating fuel poverty by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (20 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to help halt the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) by applying the Precautionary Principle and ordering an immediate cessation of all shooting and hunting including driven shoots; if he is of the view that at this critical moment, every effort must be made to eliminate all risks to wild birds, many of whom...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: On 9 August approximately 80 students on Dublin Business School's applied social care programme were sent an email notifying them the CORU board did not deem the programme as sufficient to meet its requirements to provide an approved qualification at this time. This came as a big shock to the students. I heard the Minister, Deputy Harris, on the radio on 31 August explaining the situation....

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I support the motion. We are two weeks away from the 2023 budget and promised measures to alleviate the cost-of-living crisis. Like most responses from this Government I expect it will be too little, and it will certainly be too late. We should have had a mini-budget in the early summer. This is not just a crisis in heating and lighting for people and it is not a crisis confined to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: Is there no date?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: It will be never-never.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: You have still not sorted it out.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: I want to briefly come in on a point Deputy Paul Murphy raised on the referendum on the public ownership of water. When will we see that coming through? My Bill, which was backed by the Right2Water campaign, has been buried in Committee Stage for the last number of years and at this stage we are told that a referendum on water will only take place along with a referendum on housing being a...