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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Transfer of Undertakings (10 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: Employees do not-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Transfer of Undertakings (10 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: I raise the issue of Tesco's disgraceful treatment of its workers. On Tuesday morning, well over 100 retail security officers were called into their individual stores at 9 a.m. to be told their contracts were being unilaterally passed, that is, outsourced to a security company, OCS, which works for Tesco, within six to eight weeks. There was no engagement with the workers prior to their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Transfer of Undertakings (10 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I am aware of the regulations regarding transfers of undertakings and have assisted workers to get their rights under that process. It is inevitable in many cases that workers with good jobs that are permanent and secure, on which they base the securing of their mortgage or the payment of their rent and so on, may lose out if they are moved to...

National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for putting this motion on the agenda this morning. We live in a very unequal society in an extremely unequal world. We have unacceptable rates of poverty. It is estimated that one in four people would be at risk of poverty and deprivation without social transfers. Even with social transfers we have 630,000 people below the poverty line, which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 142. To ask the Minister for Health if workers (details supplied) will be included in the Covid recognition payment. [6867/22]

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

Joan Collins: I have a specific question for the Taoiseach on the cost-of-living increases. Is the Government seriously considering setting up an emergency hardship fund? Last week during statements on the costs of living, I raised this proposal. The ESRI has also raised the need for the establishment of an emergency fund to help to meet exceptional need payments and for such a fund to be administered...

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

Joan Collins: 773. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive their EU Digital COVID Certificate from the HSE. [6609/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Many people are being impacted by the sharp increase in the cost of living. The people who will be most affected by this cost of living crisis will be the 630,000 people living below the poverty line which, scandalously, includes 165,000 children and low-paid workers. These are the individuals and families faced with the stark choice to eat or heat. The...

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

Joan Collins: I asked this same question two weeks ago and it was subsequently asked a number of times by Deputies in this House. I am compelled to raise the matter again today. On 13 February it will be 41 years since the terrible Stardust fire in Artane in Dublin, in which 48 young people died and 240 young people were injured. In September 2019, the Attorney General announced that an inquest must go...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Industrial Relations (3 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds on which her Department and Turas Nua is refusing to attend a Workplace Relations Commission explanatory talks process to resolve a trade dispute which was taking place in counties Laois and Offaly which is one of the areas covered by the request for tender one. [5098/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the further targeted interventions that she is planning to support social welfare recipients facing serious increases in energy bills. [5093/22]

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: It seems that the most recent wave of Covid-19, caused by the Omicron variant, has passed its peak in Ireland, although the virus continues to rage in many other countries. I thank our front-line workers, who kept society together and kept it going. I offer my solidarity and sympathy to those who died, their families and, importantly, the people of Ireland because, as I have said many...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (2 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the request by this Deputy and the families to establish an independent review of the death of a person (details supplied). [5251/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 136. To ask the Minister for Health if workers in the adult disability services (details supplied) will be included in the once-off, tax free €1,000 bonus payment. [5258/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: I take on board the point that there has been a huge increase. That is very welcome and it was needed from the point of view of autistic children. However, the fact of the matter is that children in Dublin 12 are still leaving the community to go to school and there are still children with no school places. There are two special classes in Scoil Íosagáin but they are full and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: I have been in contact with the campaign for ASD units in Dublin 12. The Minister of State has also met those parents. They are saying that parents are still coming to them saying their children have had to leave the area and there are no school places in the area. Does the Minister of State know where the boys are to go if there is no feeder into Drimnagh Castle? As I said, Scoil...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she will address the issue of the lack of autism classes in Dublin 12 (details supplied). [4129/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: First, I welcome the fact that the autism class in St. Damien's National School was opened recently, after the Minister intervened. I know that the autism community welcomes that. I want to ask the Minister how she will address the issue of the lack of autism classes in Dublin 12. Dublin 12 does not have enough autism classes. I ask the Minister about the position in respect of Drimnagh...

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

Joan Collins: That is not the issue.

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

Joan Collins: Will he talk to the Minister about that?