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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (22 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 281. To ask the Minister for Health his future plans for the St. Columbas site, Armagh Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12 (details supplied). [42955/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 410. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 396 of 19 February 2019, when the HSE will apply for an extension of duration of permission on the planning that was granted. [43492/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I will be very brief. I have an observation. I have never seen a section of society that has been the subject of so many studies, strategies and recommendations than Travellers, and they are still in a situation where the Traveller community is now at a huge crisis point in their health. My question for Jim is in the context of the committee's recommendations. Are Traveller communities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Yes. I will leave it at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Will that be on top of the €10 million?

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Overtime (17 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: The Garda cannot get the extra resources for that work.

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Overtime (17 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I received an email from the Dublin South-Central Forum, which was concerned not about the fact that the Commissioner has control over overtime funding but that there would not be enough gardaí on the streets in the next week or so over the Hallowe'en period. It is crucial to residents and Dublin City Council officials and staff, including those in the parks, to have the support of...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Overtime (17 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I agree with Deputy Ó Snodaigh. The Minister of State, in his reply, made no reference to requesting the Commissioner to work with his superintendents to find out the areas that could have problems. There was no reference to identifying where the problems were last year, particularly considering there were crime related groups involved in the anti-social behaviour. They nearly started...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: A deal has now been agreed between Boris Johnson's minority Government and the negotiators on behalf of the EU. It is still unclear whether this deal will pass through the British Parliament. We should remember that Theresa May's deal with the EU was put to the British parliament three times and failed to get approval. It seems to be the case that the DUP are saying "No" to this deal and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: The Tánaiste made a point about the EU-UK relations and a level playing field and provisions having been agreed. How is that going to be policed? Where is the detail and the text available on this, which I would like to see and read? I have just seen an announcement a minute ago from Jeremy Corbyn who says that, from what we know, it seems that the Prime Minister has negotiated an...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I wish to reiterate the fact that 137,000 workers reported earning the national minimum wage or less in the fourth quarter of 2018. These were mainly female workers. Half of those earning the national minimum wage are under 24 years of age. Some 110,000 workers are living at risk of poverty throughout the State. A little under half of one-parent families suffer deprivation. My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Following on from Senator Freeman's contribution I have concerns in regard to the work of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller community. The purpose of this committee is to examine Traveller community life and, in particular, mental health within that community. In this regard, we are asking the Traveller community to come forward and tell us their experiences and,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State referred to €12 million outstanding or having to be spent in the coming two months. He also mentioned that he is meeting representatives of the HSE tomorrow. Will he issue a statement outlining where that money is going to go in the next two months? It will then be clear and transparent as to where the money is going and how much is being ring-fenced for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: One of the issues that arose in the last couple of meetings is the implementation of the ethnic identifier which was recommended in the National Intercultural Health Strategy 2007-2012. It still has not happened. Also, there was the issue of the Central Statistics Office, CSO, basing it on accommodation, but only 6% of Travellers live on halting sites. That has to change as well from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: I agree with the Minister of the State, but the playing field is not level from the point of view of the issues facing the Traveller community in education, health and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Returning to the ethnic identifier, this was a specific issue within the Traveller community when its representatives spoke here earlier about the need for its introduction. I am aware that there is a conversation beginning with the coroner. It is important that that conversation is moved along sensitively but quickly. We need to be able to identify where the issues are within the health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: It is important, in the context of the provision of services in different areas, that this model of a liaison nurse to link in with those services be considered by the HSE. The other point made was about the attitude of "nothing about us without us". That has to be the key call here, namely, that nothing about the Traveller community is to be proceeded with without that community. If we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: Mr. Meehan said the majority of the 17 Connecting for Life committees had a Traveller voice. Why do the whole lot not have a Traveller's voice?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 45. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the drafting and introduction of legislation on safe access zones. [41176/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (10 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 51. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to respond to the long delays for public patients applying for the cross-Border directive and the long delays for public patients on the remuneration of payments for their operations from the HSE; the number of persons that were working in the application section and remuneration section in May 2019; the number working in the section...