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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: That is why we need a debate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: Last week, I raised the fact that Deputy Pringle had requested a debate on the national maternity hospital. In his response, the Taoiseach said that he was not averse to such a debate. The Chief Whip was sitting behind him at the time. Despite this, when Deputy Pringle raised the matter again in a meeting of the Business Committee, it was still not put on the agenda. I ask the Taoiseach...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Maternity Hospital (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. First of all, the Religious Sisters of Charity have physically gone from SVHG but their canon law has not. They have got permission from the Vatican and the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference to go ahead with this deal. Under canon law, St. Vincent's Hospital is the property of the Catholic Church. I did not hear anything in the Minister of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Maternity Hospital (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: Like Deputies Ó Cuív and Carthy, I wish to again register my frustration. When we put down these questions, we expect the Minister to be here. I wish to put on record that the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, seems to be operating not only at arm's length from the Dáil, but maybe at bridge length from it at this stage. The Minister of State will deliver a standard reply...

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome everybody in the Gallery. I welcome Senator Flynn and thank her for being here and for chairing the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community, which was established in September 2020 to complete the work initiated by the previous joint committee, in which Collete Kelleher played a major role. We looked at four areas: physical health, mental health and suicide...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I have been contacted by a number of patients who attend St. James's Hospital for long Covid and they advise me that the post of senior occupational therapist, OT, at the hospital's post-Covid clinic is ceasing due to funding issues and that the senior OT will no longer be part of the post-Covid clinic. This has been a really important part of the care for patients. I wrote to the CEO of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: A private developer would have to produce its final design and prepare tender documents while a planning application is in process. I cannot see why the same process could not be followed in relation to St. Michael's. I am disappointed that we are still talking about the third quarter of 2022 for the planning application to go in. We do not know how long it will take for the planning...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. Can he give us an indication of how long he thinks the process will take when the planning application goes to the unit? Is he talking about January, February or March 2023, or will it take longer? The Minister said that a new unit has been set up.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in introducing the pilot scheme for a European cost-rental model of housing (details supplied); and the timeline for the delivery of the first large-scale public affordable cost-rental project at a location. [12055/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I wish to follow up on that. The planning application for St. Michael's estate was agreed by the council in 2016. The project was announced in 2018. At a housing committee presentation in 2020, we were told the planning application would be submitted in the first quarter of 2021. Now it has been postponed again. There is considerable frustration in the community over this. The community...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to upgrade or amend the HAP scheme (details supplied); his further plans to increase the HAP rent caps to a level that reflects current rents; and his views on whether families in accommodation that no longer suits their needs should be allowed to move to another tenancy and at the same time hold onto the HAP given...

National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I will go though the motion for clarity and to put it on the record of the Dáil. The motion reads, "the current National Driver Licence Service (NDLS) contract, which was put in place in 2021 while the attention of the body politic was diverted by the Covid-19 pandemic, no longer offers a walk-in service, the walk-in service having originally ceased temporarily in March 2020 to ensure...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I support the motion. I congratulate Sinn Féin on bringing it forward on the basis that it clearly outlines the scale of the ongoing and increasing crisis in the public healthcare system. It also clearly identifies the fault lines in the latest announcement of yet anther plan to tackle waiting lists. We have to ask why we have these outrageous waiting lists in the first place. To my...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I asked a question regarding the National Maternity Hospital.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: There are three Private Members' slots-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I submitted the matter for discussion on the Topical Issue debate six times in the past two weeks but it has not been taken.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: Deputy Pringle raised at the Business Committee the issue of a debate on the National Maternity Hospital. We have recently seen media reports of deals being made and deals being brought to Cabinet. I ask that the National Maternity Hospital be debated in the Dáil Chamber.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: They are not agreed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Taoiseach for joining me in congratulating those workers. As he said, it was a very high bar, and there is no other case we know of in Ireland in which an unfair dismissal dispute over trade union activity has been won. The unfair dismissals legislation should be amended to give all workers protection from unfair dismissal from day one of their employment, not just after 12...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: Will the Taoiseach join me in congratulating two female migrant workers who recently won a quite significant claim against their unfair dismissal in the Labour Court? Julia Marciniak, who is originally from Poland, and Lenka Laiermanova, who is originally from the Czech Republic, were found to have been sacked by the Ivy restaurant on Dawson Street for trade union activity. These two...