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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: In December 2018, the then Minister for Health-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: In December 2018, the then Minister for Health pledged to introduce stand-alone legislation in 2019 to allow healthcare workers to go about their work and people to access reproductive health services without intimidation. Those pickets are still taking place. We are receiving emails from women and men who feel they have been stigmatised, shamed and intimidated as they access reproductive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for appearing and laying out the reality on the ground for workers and the local employment service. Members of the committee have raised this matter with the Minister a number of times, including through parliamentary questions in the Dáil. She repeatedly comes back with the argument on EU procurement rules and states the Attorney General has copper-fastened...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: Today the Minister announced plans to bring forward proposals to establish a task force on waiting lists and to seek extra funding to resource this in the forthcoming budget. This is to be welcomed but the question has to be asked, why is it only now, with waiting lists approaching nearly 1 million, that emergency action is being considered? The plan to provide three new elective hospitals...

Ombudsman for Children's Initiative on Eliminating Child Poverty and Child Homelessness: Statements (23 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: Like many other Deputies who have spoken, I absolutely endorse the Ombudsman for Children's report, A Better Normal. I want to hear how the Government is going to implement the report. The Minister made a fair point in his introduction that other issues and plans have been put in place but this report goes deeply into the situation faced by children in poverty as we come out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for coming in and giving their reports. It is much appreciated. In saying that, if one talks to members of the Traveller community living on halting sites, the story is very different. They are still struggling to get basic amenities serviced, including sewerage and water services. I represent the Travelling community in Labre Park. A plan was put in place almost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: One of the 32 recommendations of the expert group was that Dublin City Council set up a Traveller accommodation strategic policy committee, SPC. It has not been set up yet. Has that type of policy committee been set up in other local authority areas?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Agreements (22 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: 142. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 442 of 20 January 2021 and 179 of 12 May 2021, the exact outstanding issues that need to be resolved by the Department of Justice before the State can proceed to ratify the Second Optional Protocol on the UNCRC which includes the sale of children, child prostitution and...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: Twenty years ago, the then Fianna Fáil Minister with responsibility for housing, Noel Dempsey, introduced the Part V requirement, set at 20% of new developments, to be set aside for purchase by local authorities for council housing. They were to be purchased at existing use value. However, after lobbying by developers and the construction industry, no doubt involving the Galway tent...

Adoption (Information) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank my colleagues, Deputies Pringle and Connolly, for tabling this Bill. It is a discussion that needs to be had. The Bill will move the situation on. Deputy Connolly pointed out that the basic right to identity was key for people. The Bill is simple in that regard, in that it is asking for people to have the right find out what their identities are. The Minister raised issues...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I have been working with the Dublin 12 campaign for autism spectrum disorder, ASD, inclusion for a long time. It is a vibrant campaign that got a school on St. Agnes Road with the support of the Minister. Over the past while, however, and in particular this summer, there has been a transition from CHO 7, Enable Ireland and other services to progressive disability services. The families in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: It is the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I do not think anyone should point the finger at staff. What Covid- 19 has demonstrated is how universal public healthcare can be delivered from the point of view of access for everybody to public healthcare, to vaccinations, to PCR testing, to GPs and to hospital care. That is not in question here. However, that Covid care is a model for how Sláintecare has to be implemented....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: All backed by public money.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: The resignations of Professor Tom Keane, chair of the Sláintecare advisory committee, and Laura Magahy, executive director of the Sláintecare programme, to reshape the health service have now been followed by the resignation of Professor Geraldine McCarthy, chair of the South/South West Hospital Group, who in a letter to the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, expressed...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I will oppose the Government motion of confidence in the Minister, Deputy Coveney, for the simple reason that I have no confidence not just in the Minister, but in the Government. I do not have confidence in the Government dealing with issues such as the housing crisis. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission report yesterday was not a surprise but it was a shocking read. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: 711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify if sick benefit entitlements will be adversely affected for persons who were in receipt of PUP payments over the past 18 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42577/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 642. 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 of a Traveller accommodation strategic policy committee in Dublin City Council; if so, when the recommendation will be implemented; and if not, when it will be discussed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 927. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made to secure an autism class in a school (details supplied). [39181/21]