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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider setting up a cost-of-living hardship fund to be distributed by community welfare officers in the community and accessible by families and persons who are deeply affected by the cost-of-living increases in food, medical bills, essential clothing and back-to-school costs; and if she will make a statement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider setting up a cost-of-living hardship fund to be distributed by community welfare officers in the community and accessible by families and persons who are deeply affected by the cost-of-living increases in food, medical bills, essential clothing and back-to-school costs. I ask her to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I accept what the Minister said about the availability of hardship fund with no limit. When I was first active in politics as a councillor, we worked very closely with the community welfare officers in the area. There was one in the health centre in Crumlin and one in Curlew Road health centre in Drimnagh, as well as others in Parnell Road and Walkinstown. People approaching me would be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I heard the media campaign which I welcome. I am sure it will have an impact when we get to see the figures for the past month or so. Obviously, the number of people looking for additional needs payments increased because of the cost-of-living increase and not because of the media campaign because the increase happened before the campaign. We should have a specific pilot scheme in a rural...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to amalgamate four grants (details supplied) into one overall scheme, similar in structure to the access to work scheme in the UK. [38601/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: What is the estimated cost of amalgamating the four grants that comprise the reasonable accommodation fund, namely, the workplace equipment adaptation grant, the disability awareness support scheme, the personal reader grant and the job interview interpreter grant into one overall scheme, similar in structure to the UK's access to work scheme? The Minister of State knows where I am coming...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome that. Bringing the four schemes together is helpful in that it can make the scheme easier to access for both disabled jobseekers and employers. That is where AsIAm is coming from. What is currently provided for by the Department is not sufficient to help some cohorts access the workplace, such as members of the deaf community. There is no structure in place for people who want...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State is quite correct that employers are obliged to work under the Disability Act, but if they do not have support themselves, they cannot do that. That is why it is important employers are aware of these schemes and we should have a one-stop shop for access to them. Is the Minister of State thinking of setting up a reasonable support passport or something like that, which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have made applications for the rent supplement or supplementary welfare allowance or exceptional needs payments from 1 May to 24 June 2022 from the Intreo Offices in Cork Street and Bishop Square, Dublin; and if there has been an increase in applications since her Department advertised the service....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further up Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 29 June 2022, if the new regulations in the appeals office prevent appeals officers from making the decision for any oral hearings even if requested by the person making the appeal appellant or a Deputy; if they will need to obtain permission from senior management given that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the back-to-school allowance to assist families with the cost-of-living. [34873/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a cost of disability payment to the Exchequer, in line with the recommendations set out in the recent report (details supplied) published in December 2021; and if she is producing an implementation plan in relation to same. [34986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of introducing a cost of disability payment in line with the recommendations set out in the recent Cost of Disability Report published in December 2021 (details supplied). [34022/22]

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank People Before Profit for introducing the Rent Reduction Bill, which I support. I think many will consider the proposal in the Bill to reduce rents in the private rental sector revolutionary, but a revolutionary approach, a practical and realistic proposal on behalf of renters, is what is required. The right to a secure, affordable place to live, a home, is an essential human right...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (13 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 52. To ask the Taoiseach the assurances that his Department would seek to make sure that a person’s activities abroad would not impact negatively on a person’s duties as State Solicitor in Ireland; the reason that they were not asked to stand down while court cases abroad in relation to their activities were ongoing. [35752/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (13 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 56. To ask the Taoiseach the assurances that his Department would seek to make sure that a person’s activities abroad would not impact negatively on a person’s duties as State Solicitor in Ireland; the reason that they were not asked to stand down while court cases abroad in relation to their activities were ongoing.

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: Recently, both the Minister responsible for housing and the Taoiseach claimed progress was being made in the Government’s so-called Housing for All plan. This claim flies in the face of reality given the actual statistics concerning any area covered by the plan. We have a new homelessness emergency on top of the existing crisis. It is a crisis within a crisis, which was partly...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: I will be brief. The motion on the confidence in the Government reads that Dáil Éireann reaffirms it confidence in the Government. In the 30 seconds available to me, I will put on the record that I have absolutely no confidence in this Government now and never had confidence in it from day one. I will never have any confidence in any government formation that includes Fianna...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: Last week, during Leaders' Questions to the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, I raised the issue of the continuation of notices to quit. The difference now is that the family support unit of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive states that it is at capacity, there are no available hub spaces and hotels and bed and breakfasts have little availability. I gave the Minister the example of a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: Simon states that there will be record numbers in the next two months, while Members will be away.