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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: On behalf of the Independent Group, I thank staff across all the grades and work areas for their help and support and their generosity of spirit over the past Dáil term. My question relates to the survivors and families of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. I met with representatives of the families recently and I presume the situation has not changed. I was informed that despite...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: Yes, it was at the ceremony that the Tánaiste committed to meeting the relatives.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: The Tánaiste has not met them.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: Could the Tánaiste confirm that he will meet them during the election, which is a busy time?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: It is not. Affordability is.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Workplace Relations Commission (7 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: 211. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she will take to intervene in a case where a State-funded organisation (details supplied) has refused to pass on a WRC pay-increase adjudication to a long-term low-paid employee, to ensure the worker is paid the wage the WRC has adjudicated they deserve and that the authority and principles of the WRC are not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: For well over two years I have been putting this question to a number of Ministers and nothing fundamental has changed. This is the last opportunity I will have to raise this issue. There is a critical lack of public health nurses in Dublin 12 and Dublin 8. There are in many cases no development checks happening for children. These are vital checks, as the Taoiseach knows. I have mother...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: 651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, for example, a Polish couple who meet the habitual residency condition, work in Ireland for over 12 months, have a child here and then move home to Poland or another European Union Member State to live and work, the couple can still claim the children’s allowance from the State; and if so, for how long. [44267/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (5 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: 736. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what each of the four remaining articles of the Budapest Convention that Ireland is still unable to achieve entail (details supplied). [44415/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (5 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: 737. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is in her power or the power of this Government to repeal article 19a whereby a victim of sex abuse, which also includes a child victim of sex abuse, can have their private counselling records made available to the accused abuser without further delay (details supplied). [44418/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of the Child (5 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: 889. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress in the awareness raising campaign, stated in a reply to a Parliamentary Question from this Deputy on 7 November 2023, that was expected to commence in early 2024; and if he will provide a detailed account on same. [44054/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 6. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify a statement in a press release by his Department on 23 September 2024 that ratifying the second optional protocol will mean that Ireland is officially bound by its terms under international law (details supplied). [42105/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a guarantee can be provided that the second optional protocol to the UNCRC will be ratified before the term of the Thirty-third Dáil concludes (details supplied); if his Department has finalised the outstanding legal obstacles; and if not, the measures required before Ireland can finally ratify this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I ask the Minister to clarify a statement in a press release from his Department on 23 September 2024 to the effect that ratifying the second optional protocol would mean that Ireland is officially bound by the terms under international law. It is linked to another question. Can a guarantee be provided that the second optional protocol to the UNCRC will be ratified before the end of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. He said it was signed in 2000 and we are still waiting for ratification. Certain legislative hurdles have had to be dealt with before we can reach that stage. The Minister said that, following enactment of the legislation, officials in his Department will work with the Office of the Attorney General on the next steps to ensure readiness across all relevant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I would welcome any step that can put the protocol in place so that it is not put on the long finger again when there may be a new Minister in place. It is important to do that. The Minister had said that he expected an awareness-raising campaign to commence in early 2024, and details of the campaign had yet to be decided. Can he provide me with an update on the campaign and what he has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (23 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will take to intervene in a case where Cobh Heritage Centre, a State-funded organisation, has refused to pass on a WRC pay-increase adjudication (details supplied) to a long-term low-paid employee to ensure the worker is paid the wage the WRC has adjudicated she deserves and that the authority and principles of the...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I am Deputy Joan Collins.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: Unfortunately, I cannot support this motion. This is not an endorsement of the Government's five-year total failure on housing. It is not even a rejection of the motion's argument for how an affordable housing scheme could work. I generally support Sinn Féin's housing policy. We discussed it at our branch meeting in Dublin South-Central recently. What I object to is the shift in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is Government policy to not intervene in NTA decisions where there is a clear negative impact on both communities and on the use of public transport in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42155/24]