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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (14 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if class sizes in DEIS schools will be reduced. [30447/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (14 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the disparity per pupil funding between primary and post-primary education will be rectified. [30448/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (14 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the scandal of unequal pay for those who entered teaching in each of the years 2011 to 2014 will end; and the timeline for same. [30449/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: This is an exceptional budget for exceptional times. The headlines refer to billions of euro being spent in this budget to keep us all in this together and keep us all working together. The priority for any Government would have to be combating Covid-19, while trying to maintain people's jobs and livelihoods. This should also, however, be seen as an opportunity to take stock, look at our...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (13 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: 36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 483 of 3 December 2019, when the review of the climate action plan will be completed, in particular, the recommendation in relation to the issue of revisits for additional works under the warmer homes scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29666/20]

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: I welcome the Bill and thank Deputy Munster and Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. There is a real need for robust workers rights legislation in this country. Often legislation comes through, IBEC steps in the way and the Government goes its way and not the workers' way. Last week, in a debate on child poverty, I spoke about the relevance of low pay in relation to the high...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit for bringing this Private Members' motion to the Dáil. It is very apt as Dublin and Donegal were already at level 3 and overnight the whole of the country went to that level. This will have a major impact on jobs, particularly in the retail and pub sectors, as well as restaurants. As I stated yesterday in a question to the Taoiseach, the...

Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: We have a situation in the Central Mental Hospital site in Dundrum which the Land Development Agency is supporting. That is a significant project. The agency should be supporting and developing public housing on public lands. The Donnybrook Partnership plans to sell 14 apartments in a development at Eglinton Road to Dublin City Council for €9.18 million as part of its Part V...

Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: There are lands belonging to the Dublin City Council at O'Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road. There are lands across the country belonging to other local authorities. We need to build public and cost rental housing on those lands. We do not know what "affordable housing" means because no one has ever given us an idea of the cost of an affordable house and I would like to see that soon....

Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a commitment will be given that public land to be developed for housing can only be used for public housing. [27756/20]

Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: According to housing statistics from Dublin City Council, the council housed 517 households last year, most of whom had been waiting for a home since the mid 2000s, according to the documents. That is nearly 15 years. The average waiting time was more than 12 years and one of the households had been on the list since 1996. We are in a housing crisis in the middle of a pandemic. Will the...

Covid-19 (Arts): Statements (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: I will be sharing time. Working in the arts is probably the most precarious of precarious jobs. The sector has been extremely hard hit by the Covid-19 restrictions. The National Campaign for the Arts, NCFA, has said that 68% of its members have been relying on the pandemic unemployment payment and have been severely impacted by the reductions introduced last month and in July. Many...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: Last week, I raised the issue of two women workers in Spike Island Tours who were sacked by the board. I wish to bring it to the Taoiseach's attention that they were reinstated last week on the basis that the charges against them were absolutely ridiculous. I have also been contacted by driving instructors who tell me they are still required to present themselves at various Road Safety...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: Many people in Dublin and Donegal have lost their jobs over the past few weeks. They are in receipt of €203 per week because of public health advice and for public health reasons. This did not happen of their own volition; they did not lose their jobs in normal circumstances. Rather, they were forced out of their workplaces. We are facing into the winter. People have to pay...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: Raise them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: People have to be able to live, not just survive.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: NPHET met last Thursday and decided that, while concerned with the trends and the increase in infections, it did not see a reason to move to level 3 nationally. Three days later, it recommended a move to level 5 nationally, in effect reinstating the lockdown from the spring and early summer. NPHET has pointed to an increase in the 14-day incidence rate in over-65s and 31 outbreaks in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the fact that persons have been on the housing waiting list for two decades, that more than 68,000 persons and families are on housing waiting lists and that more than 8,700 persons are in emergency homelessness accommodation; and his plans to tackle the housing emergency. [27755/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the anti-eviction legislation will be reinstated for renters. [27754/20]

Winter Plan 2020: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: Every time I see or hear the word "Sláintecare" coming from the HSE, the Department of Health or Ministers I become extremely angry because I know, the Minister of State knows and everybody in here knows the Sláintecare report, as a planned approach to achieve a single tier well funded public health service, has been consigned to the shelves to gather dust in the Department of...