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Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I welcome that the Government did not oppose the cross-party motion last night. There is, however, no commitment in the Minister's speech to include all of those who are excluded: the children who spent less than six months in a mother and baby institution; the children who were boarded out; and the children and mothers who were in institutions not covered by the mother and baby homes...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person in receipt of the carer’s allowance cannot get the over 65 benefit payment and retain the half-rate carer’s allowance given that when a person reaches 66 years of age they can claim the State pension and retain the half-rate carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement the increase in the means test for the fuel allowance with immediate effect as of midnight of Budget 2022. [57548/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reinstate the pandemic unemployment payment for those workers who are affected by the restrictions of closure at midnight to the level the payment was at in March 2020. [57547/21]

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: It is becoming very clear that the Covid-19 vaccines are not the silver bullet we thought they were going to be or could be. Despite our 93% vaccination rate, we are now in a fourth wave of what may be more of an endemic than a pandemic. I believe Covid-19 is here for the foreseeable future, with all that entails, such as future mutations and new variants. Currently, Europe is at the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: Last week I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of the inability to recruit and retain staff in homecare services. Since then, several people have contacted me. I wish to put their stories on the record of the Dáil because it is really important. A woman rang me who is a healthcare worker. She said her mother lives with her. She is 89 years old and has advanced Alzheimer's. She has...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: This is the reality on the ground, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: We might have the capacity, but we do not have the personnel.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: For this family, nothing is being done.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: This is a woman who had care for the last number of years and it has been withdrawn.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: It is déjà vu.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the programme board established to oversee the 32 recommendations of the 2019 Expert Review Group on Traveller Accommodation has recommended the creation at national level of a Traveller accommodation strategic policy committee in every city and county council; if so, when the recommendation will be implemented; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected timeline for completion of the new Limerick women’s prison; if it will remain a medium security prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57854/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visits to prisons that took place with a child present in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57855/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if a series of matters in relation to the non-checking of Covid-19 certificates in a premises (details supplied) will be investigated. [57730/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses. What Senator Gavan said was very informative. One other aspect which has not been mentioned is the fact a lot of pensioners work beyond the age of 65 because they want to work. Others do so because of poverty due to the fact they cannot afford to live on a pension and need to keep working to have an income to pay a mortgage or rent. Many pensioners have experienced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she plans to take to resolve the scarcity of substitute teachers and the fact that school students are being sent home due to no substitute teachers being available. [57234/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (23 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that are in place to provide finance to schools that do not have a recommended standard ventilation system. [57231/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason children in primary schools are not wearing masks. [57228/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will notify the Israeli government of Ireland’s objection and opposition to the forcible transfer and major dispossession of Palestinian property in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem (details supplied). [56446/21]