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Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: A small minority of school secretaries and caretakers are directly employed by the Department of Education and Skills, as mentioned already, but the majority are employed by individual school boards of management on precarious low-pay contracts. They are obliged to sign on during the summer holidays and do not get sick pay or a pension. They get paid an average of €12,000 plus. They...

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: When will the Minister receive the final surveys from the schools?

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: He does not have that in his statement.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (1 Oct 2019)

Joan Collins: 358. To ask the Minister for Health if the waiting time of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and the overall waiting times for the service. [39484/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I do not know how to respond. The Minister of State's reply indicates that the Minister has known about this issue since July, yet, at the end of September and heading into October, patients are still waiting for over 90 days to be reimbursed money they borrowed. They do not have the money to pay €15,000 for a back operation. That is the cost in the hospital in the North. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: If they do not opt for it, they must wait for two and a half years here.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: It has been a failure because public patients cannot have operations here.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I raise the issue of delays in processing applications and reimbursing payments under the cross-Border directive. I will provide two examples. I know of one person who applied last December. He was advised that he had a knee problem and would have to get an operation. He got a scan done here in the South of Ireland. When he went up to the North he was told that it did not look like a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: One in four children live below the poverty line. That is the reality. How are we going to change that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I will give the Minister some statistics which are truly shocking and a real indictment on our society. Some 760,000 people, one in six people and one in four children in the State, are living below the official poverty line. The poverty line is an income 60% below the median €27,000 a year, therefore, an income of €13,000 or less puts one below the poverty line. Some 110,000...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for his reply. The figures I read out are from Society of St. Vincent De Paul, representatives of which appeared before the Joint Committee on Employment and Social Protection this morning for a prebudget meeting. Those figures are stark. The Minister mentioned a few projects and initiatives that have been introduced but they are not enough. What we need over the next...

Special Needs Education Places: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: Like many Deputies, it breaks my heart when I meet parents who tell me about problems such as fighting for an assessment of needs and services for their children. I have been following up regarding CHO 7, the area covering south Dublin, Kildare and west Wicklow, and the school age team. One of the replies I received was that there are 298 children on the Dublin south west school age team...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will comply with the legal directions issued to her by the Data Protection Commission regarding the public services card. [38795/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to initiate her amendment to the Payment of Wages Act 1991 to deal with the issue of tip theft. [38796/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the public services card will not expire on a particular date after it has been issued and reapplied for by a person. [38804/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for the insight into their community. From the comment made by Ms Connors I picked up that the contributors have very little confidence that this will make any difference to the lives of Travellers in Ireland. I understand that because at a previous meeting, a group from Cork made the point that very good recommendations were made in the task force report in 1996 to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: How can we bring about that change? This has been raised in all the reports published in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and in the task force reports. What can we do to ensure there is change at the top level, which is where it is driven? However, nothing has changed in terms of the education of children and so on. I want feedback from the witnesses about what we need to do.

Climate Change: Statements (19 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: Although there are not many of us here now, I hope to see everybody who works in the Dáil, Deputies and public representatives out on the streets tomorrow demonstrating with the young people. It starts at the Custom House at 12 noon. It is part of a worldwide movement to keep pressure on governments to change the way they implement climate change strategies. In explaining the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: It is impossible. Does the Minister know when that plan will be brought forward? It has been over a year since he came to St. Michael's Estate to launch the cost rental model there and I would like to see what is happening and for the Minister to report back. It has gone too far. Regarding affordable housing, it has been said that prices for a two-bedroom house in O'Devaney Gardens...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister for his reply. At least, it is moving along a bit. I also think it is too slow. We are talking about 330 homes in St. Michael's Estate, which would add to us having rents that could be affordable. I am looking forward to seeing that model. The Minister said that Dublin City Council informed him that no home in the affordable housing scheme in O'Devaney Gardens...