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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: 807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she is not removing or amending Article 19A of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992 whereby in certain criminal cases the private counselling/ therapy records of the victim of sexual abuse can have their records made available to the accused abuser (details supplied). [11756/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: 812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Minister for State in her Department stated on 1 December 2023 that the State should be in a position to ratify Second Optional Protocol to the Convention in the Rights of a Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; if the State will be in the position to ratify the second...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: 1105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the likely date for an awareness raising campaign to commence in relation to the new Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023 (details supplied); if the details of the campaign have been decided; if assurances will be given that this awareness campaign on the OPSC will be made available...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Statutory Instruments: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: In agreement with a point that has been raised on the DSP disregard for March 2025, can Mr. Egan put an estimate on when the Department is going to start reviewing it? If people are going into this agreement with a student or whoever, it will be very important that they have a longer term understanding of it and that the student is not going to be in a situation in March where they feel that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Statutory Instruments: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: Are these two rent-a-room schemes covered by the RTB? Have you discussed that in respect of landlord and tenant, which the person would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Statutory Instruments: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: The officials have not discussed it with the Department of housing, no?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Statutory Instruments: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: Your scheme is extending so more and more people will hopefully be enticed to bring people in through the rent-a-room scheme for students and for people who are on the fair deal scheme. Particularly if it is expanding, the RTB question is an important one.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (6 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: 178. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the current waiting times for children in Dublin north to receive an assessment of need; and the current waiting times in the rest of Dublin and nationally. [10934/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: 187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current Children's Disability Network Team waiting times in Dublin North, the rest of Dublin and nationally. [10945/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision on an application for fuel allowance can be reviewed (details supplied). [9743/24]

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I will first thank my PA, Naoise McTeirnan and David Gibney, who assisted in developing this Bill. The Bill addresses a problem that the Minister of State has failed to deal with. Employers are using the removal or threat of removal of all or some of a deduction at source agreement as a bargaining chip in collective bargaining negotiations. If the Minister of State had been at the meeting...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Absolutely.

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: Neither did one member of Fianna Fáil or the Green Party come along to it.

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I did not know that.

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I apologise. I did not see any TDs from his party. It is a threat that I hear is made more and more against trade unions. The member representing the FSU said that it is finding it more and more the case and that it has a severe chilling effect on collective bargaining. The threat has been used repeatedly by some employers to bend trade unions to their will during negotiations with a...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." On behalf of the Right2Change party, I am delighted to introduce this simple but impactful Bill, which will strengthen trade unions, make it easier for workers to join a union and take a trade union-busting tactic off the table when workers are negotiating for their own pay and conditions. This Bill recognises both the importance of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: 308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has investigated a scenario (details supplied) and how this can be resolved so that anyone in a similar situation can be automatically paid. [8899/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: We have met two of them and they said all that, but it says in the contract that DCC has access to the amenities-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I want to raise the serious issue of the physical segregation of Part 5 council tenants in private developments. We have several examples of Part 5 council tenants all over Dublin being housed in one block or area of a development and physically separated from other private tenants or occupants. We have all heard the stories of the segregation of Part 5 tenants as regards the lack of access...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I would not agree with the Tánaiste. It is not about the physical cost; rather, it is about the maintenance cost of segregation. That is the argument that was put forward. A contract was signed with Dublin City Council and tenants which we are looking into in more detail in terms of access to amenities. The Tánaiste must remember that the Davitt complex was built as a...