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Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 Jan 2021)

Joan Collins: 969. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding an addiction clinic; and the reason the HSE would need to move the clinic during renovations. [1240/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Joan Collins: 1013. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation regarding the closure of construction sites to stop the spread of Covid-19 will be clarified; the reason social housing and public infrastructure sites are being kept open (details supplied); and his views on whether all building sites should be closed to limit the transmission of the virus. [1380/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (13 Jan 2021)

Joan Collins: 1142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds that were injured and died or were killed at tracks from 1 January 2020 to date; and the names of the greyhounds and the cause of each injury and death by greyhound track in tabular form. [1246/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jan 2021)

Joan Collins: 1187. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the Covid-19 stability scheme funding that went to disability organisations. [44999/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: We have come to the end of a political year, but there are still workers who face the decision taken from the recommendation of Mr. Kevin Foley in respect of former Debenhams workers. They have to make a serious decision, and a ballot will most likely be taken, but those workers were not out on the picket line just to get their negotiated contracts from a company that practically liquidated...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: I support the Bill and thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing it forward. I salute the Government for taking it on board and, I hope, implementing it. The recent rise in the number of adults and children in homelessness is a worrying trend. We all know that. The latest figures in October showed an increase over September, with 8,737, including 2,642 children, in emergency...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: I want to raise the issue of equine welfare, particularly in urban areas on public lands and in public parks. I am sure the Tánaiste has heard of My Lovely Horse Rescue, which does great work in the area of animal welfare. It has noted an increase in recent times in the number of animals and horses being left in parks and public spaces and on State land. Last weekend, it filmed a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: Professor Michael O'Flaherty, director of the Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, described the issue of housing for the community as very worrying. Some 73% of Travellers surveyed said that they had experienced housing discrimination. Professor O'Flaherty has said that "EU-wide Roma and Travellers are experiencing a perfect storm of fundamental rights deprivation and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: I am sure the Tánaiste is aware that today is International Human Rights Day and in that respect, I draw his attention to the survey by the Vienna-based European Union Fundamental Rights Agency, FRA, on conditions for Traveller, Roma and Sinti communities across six EU countries. On Monday, the results of this survey were published. They point to a truly awful situation, with 31% of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: 102. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE and his Department have made their business case to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform seeking consultant status and renumeration; and the operational model the HSE and his Department are proposing in view of the Crowe Horwath report 2018 following on from a previous report. [42510/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health specialists that have applied for positions in the past month; and the number of vacancies the HSE is hoping to fill. [42442/20]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: There is no justification for the subsidising of private healthcare by the State. The two-tier system of healthcare and, in particular, the mingling of private and public care in our public hospital system is the key obstacle to equity of access and a fit-for-purpose national health system open to all and free to use. In the 1950s, the VHI was established as a not-for-profit State...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, to delete line 5 and substitute “€960 in relation to an eight week period,”. I welcome that the Minister has taken on board the proposals, and the concerns and views of the music and entertainment industry. I appreciate it.

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: I acknowledge the fact this is probably the biggest social protection expenditure in the history of the State. However, it is the biggest pandemic we have faced in the history of our State. It was the responsibility of the Government to respond to the pandemic. It was not because people lost their jobs or left their jobs, it was because public health guidance forced people to stay at home...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (9 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if workers who returned to work on 27 November 2020 after having received the pandemic unemployment payment for the past 17 weeks will be entitled to the Christmas bonus (details supplied). [42392/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Data (8 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: Do we need to bring in legislation for it? That was said last night at a meeting of Dublin City Council.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Data (8 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: With no disrespect to the Minister of State, I was hoping the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, would have been here. I listened to him yesterday morning on the radio making the point that 4,400 families were homed permanently over the last period of the pandemic and it will be 6,000 next year. That 4,400 families were found homes during the pandemic was precisely because of the number of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Data (8 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: In the week from 19 October to 25 October last, a total of 8,737 people were in emergency accommodation nationally, of whom 2,642 were children. This compares with a total of 8,656 people, including 2,583 children, in the corresponding week in September, indicating a month-on-month increase in the homeless numbers. The figures had been going down. The Minister stated yesterday morning that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (8 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new guidance will be issued to local authorities in relation to co-living as a delay will allow developers to submit co-living planning applications to avoid any proposed ban on such developments. [41699/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: 849. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to stop the export of greyhounds from Ireland to countries with no welfare laws; and if a club (details supplied) and its records will be investigated. [42014/20]