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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for a very comprehensive report on the workings of NTRIS to date. A question remains to be answered. Funding is going into this strategy and committees and equality groups have been set up, yet the situation has not changed on the coalface. That is the reality of it. It is a question of how we transpose all these reports and groups to the reality on the ground. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: The Minister is right about pushback, but people are pushing back because of the state of the halting sites in which Travellers are living. We have to turn that around. If communities are to have the right services and accommodation, some serious work will have to be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I will emphasise one point. We had a private meeting earlier that Senator Flynn attended. She made the point that accommodation is key to everything else coming together. Accommodation would build the morale of the Travelling community and that of the children on the sites. It would build the morale of the communities around those sites. It would be like the working-class areas of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I have been asked by a number of people to raise the issue of the shortage of neurology nurse specialists, particularly in St. James's Hospital. They are campaigning to increase by 100 the number of nurses nationally. They say St. James's Hospital has only four but it should have 14 to deal with the catchment area. Will the Taoiseach look into this, try to find out what the problem is and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: There are many issues I could raise, such as the national maternity hospital or redress for mother and baby homes, but I wish to raise the inability to recruit and retain staff across the public health service. It is now reaching a crisis point. This is particularly the case in the crucial area of home care services. Despite the increased allocation of hours by the Government, people...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: It is not having any impact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: The fact of the matter is that in recent times workers from the private home care sector have been going into the HSE because the jobs are better paid, they are respected more and they get a pension and sick pay etc. In addition, people are not taking up the jobs in the private sector because of the conditions. It is a fundamental issue facing the healthcare service across the board. Last...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: Would it not be better to employ them through the HSE?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: How can that be done when these workers are being paid by the private sector?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the finances allocated to a project (details supplied); the value of the proposed loan from the EIB; and the other ways it is proposed to subsidise this project in order to ensure that the rents are realistic and truly affordable based on an affordable income related scheme while not comprising on the quality of design. [56194/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a project (details supplied) is based on the apartment standards of Dublin City Council or the build to rent standards; and if the details of the standards will be provided. [56196/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department in conjunction with Dublin City Council is factoring in a fair rent scheme for the cost rental apartments in a project (details supplied) based on an affordable fair and equitable rent income related scheme and not market related; and if the concept of 15% of the principal earners income plus €21 per...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State. I note that no copy of his speech was given out. Perhaps one could be sent over to me. The suggested rent of €1,300 for a one-bedroom apartment and €1,500 for a two-bedroom apartment, which is the concept in some areas in Dublin, is affordable only to the top 30% of households. That is not what we are looking for or what we need in respect of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: Those figures are out there.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I do not agree with the HAP scheme in general.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: I note that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is in the Seanad at present. That is probably why he is not here in the Chamber. I am aware the Minister of State played a role in the Rebuilding Ireland scheme and he was the Minister of State in the then Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in the last Dáil, so he would be fairly clued in to this issue. The...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: This motion could be addressed to many if not all areas of the health service: insufficient capacity; lack of funding; staff shortages; enormous pressures and mental strain on staff; and a constant ongoing crisis affecting both those who need the service and those who work in it. Despite increased funding and a commitment to employ more staff, there is difficulty in recruiting new staff and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons aged over 65 years who would otherwise be entitled to benefit payment are not able to claim the payment along with the half-rate carer’s allowance. [55788/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: We should have a debate on it. Is the Minister prepared to have a debate on it?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: Will he ask Fianna Fáil and the Green Party to push that?