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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I generally agree with the points and critiques of Deputies Donnelly and Ó Cuív and, therefore, I will not repeat them. I will come in on two or three aspects I want to address with the Minister. Like everyone here, I support measures that help people make ends meet. Once-off payments are definitely welcome, as has been said. They are a huge relief for people who are desperately...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: ...would be more consistent for people. That is the point I continuously make. While the once-off payments are welcome, they are not dealing with the basic payments people rely on over the winter period, like this and the fuel allowance. I refer to the working family payment. We see more people in work who see deprivation and consistent poverty. I will not go through what the energy...

World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: First, I welcome these statements on World Mental Health Day. It is vital we mark what has become a crisis that has touched practically every family in the country. I wish to express my solidarity with the many people suffering with mental health and depression, with those families who have lost loved ones to suicide, and also people working within the mental health services. Everybody...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: Double child benefit payments should not just be for Christmas as the Minister referred to in her Christmas babies speech. They should be for childhood. That is why the Government should have implemented the second tier of child benefit recommended by the ESRI and many other organisations fighting for children's rights. That is why, in order to make real progress and reduce child poverty,...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: ...sharing time with my three colleagues. I am supporting the Private Members' motion from Sinn Féin on this childcare payment, as I would support any Private Members' motion calling for more money to be put into people's pockets. Childcare is one of the biggest costs to working families and it is a growing cost that is pricing parents, particularly women, out of employment. It is...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Harkin for bringing this Private Members' motion to the House today. I want to highlight the great work that has been done to campaign for adequate funding for primary education. The work by the primary school principal representatives is a great resource for all of us, as well as the constant work by the INTO in fighting for better funding and conditions for teachers and...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Joan Collins: I will not support the pact. It writes a broken system into law. It disregards the humanity of people fleeing war and persecution. It weakens our humanity by treating people who need help with detention and punishment. It reinforces the false idea we have a refugee crisis and not a crisis in how we run our economies, societies and international system. We do not have refugee crisis....

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I wish to warmly welcome the survivors, relatives and members of the Justice for the Forgotten group who are in the Public Gallery this evening. I had the privilege of meeting them today for the first time. I have to say that I am disappointed in myself and I apologise to them for not playing more of a role and linking in with them as a...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I received an email from the Dublin 12 Campaign 4 Autism Inclusion about today's debate. The group asked me to raise special education provision in the Crumlin and Drimnagh areas. They feel they have been forgotten, even though a special needs school, for which they campaigned, opened in Crumlin recently. They say that Dublin 12 still needs autism classes, especially at secondary schools...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: Okay. I was just about to look for a deferment. I am raising Ireland's position on establishing the United Nations framework convention on international tax co-operation. Last month, at a statement in Paris urging EU countries to support the new UN framework convention on international tax co-operation, we learned that global tax abuse will cost the EU €1 trillion over the next...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I want to start by quoting the headline of the article by Kitty Holland on "The full story of the Stardust fire", which is, "Jesus Christ, the doors are locked". That is what the survivors from the Stardust fire have been saying for more than 40 years. They were not believed. They were ignored and, as Antoinette Keegan has said, they have been systematically abused by the Irish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I agree with the last two speakers on the documentary last night on the O'Shea report but I want to raise the following issue. Earlier this month, we learned that health and social care staff with community and voluntary bodies are still awaiting pay increases agreed last October. I am referring to section 10, section 39 and section 56 workers. There was an agreement for an 8% pay increase...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank our witnesses very much for the report. It seems there are a great many things going on behind the scenes between interdepartmental groups, action plans, heat plans etc. I want to go back to the point made at the very beginning which was about fairness for access to the retrofitting. I still do not believe that fairness is there. Has the interdepartmental group looked at this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: I would have liked to have seen the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the House because this is a very important issue. I have dealt with several constituents over the past while who are stuck in the gap between the social housing income threshold and the income thresholds for the new Land Development Agency cost-rental projects. Many people find themselves in this...

Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: First, I would like to thank the Labour Party for bringing this important Bill before the Dáil today. Yesterday, the Government pushed forward two amendments to our Constitution in the name of gender equality, ignoring all opposition, to set-up a referendum on International Women’s Day. Today, it kicks the can down the road on legislation that would make a real, material...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: I am not a barrister or a solicitor in any shape or form; I am a lay person. I thank the members of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality for the time and effort they took to produce such a comprehensive and progressive report. The report is certainly a lot more progressive than the Government's proposed amendments. I welcome most of the measures in both the 39th and 40th amendments....

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: I agree with everything Deputy Ó Cuív has said. We have to look at how we can make a difference very quickly and then build on that to get the longer term issues dealt with. I agree that, in conjunction with Pavee Point and other organisations, we must look at what provisions we can insert in the planning and development legislation to reflect the needs of the community. I am...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: It is now eight months since the Government lifted the eviction ban and took away the only thing keeping thousands of people from facing eviction. It was a political decision to allow a level of homelessness in this country that has not been seen in modern times. Time will tell the full damage of lifting the no-fault eviction ban, but we know that since the Government took away the ban, in...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: I am glad the Government has brought forward a Bill to make our planning system clearer in the aftermath of repeated calls from the Opposition at the committee on housing and by interest groups. I echo my fellow Deputies' concerns over the lack of: a proper explanatory memorandum for the Bill; adequate speaking time on the third-largest Bill in the State's history; and time for Members to...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: This motion is nothing but fake concern. It has no solutions. We have seen a chaotic response to increased numbers of asylum seekers and refugees. We have a failing health system, a failing housing market, and failing services. If the Government thinks it is dealing with the homelessness for people in Ireland, Ukrainians, and IPAS arrivals, I would hate to see what failure looks like....