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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit (2 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 428 of 20 October 2020, if the Christmas bonus will be paid to those on jobseeker's benefit. [40520/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Benefit Scheme (2 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child with Down's syndrome (details supplied) was refused optical benefit. [40746/20]

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this motion to the House. It is important that it did so because there seems to be a dragging of feet by the Government in introducing the legislation that is needed. I welcome the statements by the Taoiseach and the Minister that the promised legislation to defer the increase to 67 years of age for State pension eligibility is to be introduced next week....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report on the future of a school (details supplied) as an ASD-specific school for children aged five years of age plus. [40513/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: KPMG attempted overnight to grab stock former Debenhams stores in Limerick and Tralee. Just after 1 a.m., security hired by KPMG arrived at the scene in Limerick and cut the chains securing the gate to the loading bay. An unmarked truck with a Dublin registration arrived at around 4 a.m. but the workers had gathered and prevented the removal of the stock from the store. The truck continued...

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Cairns and the Social Democrats for tabling this motion, which seeks to waive the increased funding of €2.4 million due to be given to the greyhound industry, to incrementally refocus greyhound racing funding on the welfare of dogs impacted by the breeding and racing associated with the industry and work towards the gradual phasing out of State support for the greyhound...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (25 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the driver theory test centres that are closed for learner drivers to take their tests. [39095/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (25 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the driver theory test centres that are open for tests; and the centres that are closed. [39096/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (25 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will resist lobbying from clubs (details supplied) to extend the coursing season by two months into March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39083/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architectural Heritage (24 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be supported to engage his officials and the HSE to carry out of a historic landscape assessment and a conservation plan on the Brú Chaoimh in Cork Street, Dublin 2. [38270/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a plan of public, cost rental and affordable housing will be implemented on the Oscar Traynor site and the timeframe for the implementation of same. [38269/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (24 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 835. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €10 million announced for the drugs strategy that will go to drug and alcohol task forces for local projects; and if the amount is ringfenced. [38233/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response Final Report: Motion (19 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I thank the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response for doing this fierce body of work and the recommendations in it. It looks like most of the recommendations will go to the select committees to be overseen and to make sure, where possible, that they are implemented. I was not a member of the committee. I would have liked to have been, as I was on the Sláintecare committee and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Election of Chairman (19 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I propose Senator Eileen Flynn.

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I support this important and timely legislation. While the Labour Party brought the Bill into the Dáil today, it is a shame that when it was in power between 2011 and 2016 it could not have introduced similar legislation when it had the majority to get it passed. Obviously the Covid pandemic has greatly increased the numbers of people working from home. Notwithstanding that,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commission on Pensions (18 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if representatives from organisations (details supplied) will be included on the Pensions Commission. [37169/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Defence Capabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: 41. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the European peace facility; the role Ireland and the Defence Forces will play in relation to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36856/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Defence Capabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: Will the Minister make a statement on the European peace facility and elaborate on the role the Irish State and the Defence Forces will play in relation to it? The European peace facility was first proposed in 2018. It is a very significant proposal because it ventures into uncharted territory. For the first time in history it would allow the EU to provide external action support for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Defence Capabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: People know that I am absolutely opposed to this facility. The EPF is a new off-budget multi-billion euro fund of European citizens' money, which is set to replace two previous programmes, the African peace facility and the neighbourhood, development and international co-operation instrument. The African peace facility supports the African Union and the African Regional Economic Communities...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: European Defence Capabilities (17 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: I hear what the Minister is saying. He knows the concerns people have because for the last two years peace advocacy groups, corporate watchdogs and NGOs have implored the EU to call a halt to the EPF and to avoid investing in militarised approaches that are prone to failure and risk. The European External Action Service has doubled down by insisting that hard power has to complement soft...