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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a gradual tapering of the pandemic unemployment payment will be put in place to protect income if workers are returning to less hours or less pay from their employer than they had before the pandemic in view of the fact that the reopening of workplaces is very precarious especially with the delta variant and potential...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (1 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has initiated the process to establish a dedicated and appropriately resourced employment status unit in the Workplace Relations Commission to examine and provide determinations on employment status regardless of whether they relate to social Insurance, employment or tax obligations as recommended in the report by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Workplace Relations Commission (1 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has initiated the process to amend the Workplace Relations Act 2015 given the publication by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands of its report on the Examination of Bogus Self-Employment report on 16 June 2021 (details supplied). [35332/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a behaviour therapist will be provided from its commencement for a school (details supplied). [35418/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to look at mainstream and autism classes to expand the pilot scheme for speech and language therapists and occupational therapists for autistic children. [35419/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: A lot was covered in the replies to Deputy Ó Cuív, such as application forms for the Traveller community and how specific they should be. Do the witnesses have any suggestions as to how they can be made clearer? What would a local authority require? Is legislative change needed to instruct authorities to do that specific work? At the end of the day, if a Traveller family has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: I have a question for Mr. Allen or Ms Molloy about Housing First. Obviously there is a Housing First policy, whether that is with the Peter McVerry Trust or with Focus Ireland. Specifically on the key worker and the relationship with the Housing First client, who is it that makes the decision when there is no longer a need for a key worker to work with the person? Is that decision made by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank Mr. Allen.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: In response to a question from Deputy Gannon last week about the proposal for a Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS, Covid waiver at the WTO, the Tánaiste told the House that a TRIPS waiver was not enough to do what needed to be done and that the best thing we could do was to work together with industry to license this intellectual property to the global south...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: Will the Government support the CTAP?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: Why are we not supporting the CTAP?

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Bríd Smith and People Before Profit-Solidarity for introducing this retired workers Bill. I am very pleased to support the legislation, which would represent an important change for the up to 500,000 retired workers in this country. Many workers have had detrimental changes made to their pension entitlements with little notice and no consultation. These changes could...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Visas (29 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements that have been made with other European countries, the United States of America and so on in relation to the pandemic; if unvaccinated can students travel; if they are covered for Covid-19 healthcare in the country they are doing their Erasmus programme in; and if they will get vaccinated in the country they are studying in as...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I welcome that there is at last some semblance of an idea and legislation in the Dáil on affordable housing. I question whether it actually is affordable housing, but at least there is something before us. I also welcome the cost-rental model being put on a statutory footing. However, the Bill will in no effective way solve the housing crisis. It will not make housing more affordable...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: They told the previous Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, that they were not going to sell the land.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: Yesterday in Questions on Promised Legislation, the Taoiseach stated the issue should have been raised in Leaders' Questions. He is getting those questions today because he still has not clarified his position on the new national maternity hospital. The decision to locate a State-built and funded, much-needed, modern national maternity hospital without clear clarification as to ownership of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: We all want a safe modern national maternity hospital. No one challenges that. No one challenges the preference that it be co-located. The KPMG report in 2008 indicated that and the Government went by that report. However, eight years on from 2013 and 13 years on from that report, we are in a situation where the Religious Sisters of Charity still have control over this hospital being...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I intend raising this issue with the Taoiseach later and I will be looking for a clear, direct answer. If the situation remains as it is with the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group refusing to sell the site to the State, is the Government preparing to compulsory purchase order, CPO, the site, and if it is too costly and if it is too lengthy is the Government preparing to abandon the St....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Grant Payments (23 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: 111. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the decision makers who issue grants and funding to organisations (details supplied); and the reason a company that has contributed to the economy on a large scale in such a short period of time has been declined the opportunity to recover. [33650/21]

Impact of Covid-19 on People with Disabilities within the Education and Health Sectors: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: I do not know whether the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, meant to give the impression that everything is okay - perhaps she did not mean to use that tone - but it certainly sounded like it. It came across as if we should not look to the Government but rather look away. The reality on the ground for so many parents and children is a very different experience. I understand that both...