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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 May 2020)

Joan Collins: 1187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions which will be made for persons with fixed low incomes reliant on prepay power services that run out of income. [4870/20]

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Joan Collins: As I only have four minutes, I will also avoid the niceties. I know that front-line workers and public officials have done a lot of work. I wish them well in their work in the next period because they are possibly going to face a difficult situation in hospitals and elsewhere. I refer to the letter from Patricia King, the president of ICTU, to the Taoiseach yesterday. The letter refers...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (5 Mar 2020)

Joan Collins: 970. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a decision was taken to withdraw the prosecution of a person (details supplied) on charges of animal cruelty in Monaghan District Court in February 2020; if the original charges of the case will be published; and the reason they were withdrawn. [3708/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (5 Mar 2020)

Joan Collins: 1248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the updated cost of building a one, two and three bedroom public unit on public land. [3703/20]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Joan Collins: First, I express my thanks for the warm and friendly response I received on the doorsteps in Dublin South-Central during the general election campaign. Second, I thank the people of Dublin South-Central for using their canny voting skills to re-elect me to the Thirty-third Dáil. I am humbled and delighted. The main issues I encountered on the doorsteps were the dire housing crisis;...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: The €1,500 additional support payment is in recognition of the additional administration that childcare providers were tasked with in 2019. This is the statement that issued from the Minister herself today. This will go to administration and will not necessarily go anywhere else. We have to consider deeply what sort of society we are in at the moment. We are dependent on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: This issue was raised this morning by two party leaders. The Taoiseach's response was underwhelming. Yesterday, the Minister, Deputy Zappone, said she was shocked and stunned by the hikes in insurance premia. I have been contacted by a number of providers in my area who are overwhelmed by what they are being quoted. One operator of a crèche on Wainsfort Road is facing closure as the...

Section 39 Organisations: Motion [Private Members] (17 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin and Sinn Féin for tabling this motion under Private Members' business. The issue needs to be dealt with. I fully support elements of the motion, and especially that unequal pay and conditions between the workers of section 38 and section 39 organisations must be ended. Full pay restoration for these workers must be delivered as a priority. In his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: I apologise but I will have to leave at approximately 12.20 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: First, I want to comment on the 80% unemployment rate in the Traveller community. That, in itself, represents a dire failure of the State in dealing with the issue. It is not something that happened overnight. It has been a prevailing attitude right throughout the Departments of State and within my own community - the settled community. When there is 80% unemployment such as in the working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: And those in their 20s, 30s and 40s.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to have the revised amendment wording ready to bring to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government on the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016. [51760/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Abstraction Regulation (11 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of water that private bottled water companies extract here; the locations in which they extract water; the amount they pay for extraction; the person or body they pay; if they are exempted from payment; if the information is not available, if a small scoping group will be set up to report to Dáil Éireann...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Facilities (11 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact the CEO of Dublin City Council is proposing that depot sites be sold to facilitate the capital programme (details supplied); the reason it is not policy to use appropriate public land held by the council to build public housing in view of the housing crisis; and if he will make a...

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with Deputy Connolly. The latest report on average rents in the private rental sector from daft.ierecords a new high of €1,400 a month nationally. This is the fourth year in a row that a new high has been recorded by daft.ie. Average rents nationally are up 5% over the past year and this is a fall from a 12% rise a year earlier. It is a reflection of the limited...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: It is no problem. Many issues have been covered. The witnesses spoke about what was needed to improve the Traveller community's prospects in education and beyond. I had contact with an individual who had been homeless for approximately four years. He eventually got accommodation in a bedsit. For the past four years, he has found it difficult to match his skills with the Intreo office....

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: Is it involved in the Pathways to Work strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: To the editor of the magazine I say "Fair play". It is a great magazine.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: I wish to raise an issue relating to the local drug and alcohol task forces. Is the Minister of State at the Department of Health aware that the HSE representative on the Canal Communities local drugs task force got up in the middle of an amicable meeting, announced that he was removing himself from the task force, and walked out? Are the State and its agencies abdicating responsibility and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2019)

Joan Collins: It is outrageous.