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Order of Business (25 Nov 2014)

Joan Collins: Regarding the proposed mother and baby homes inquiry, how can the Taoiseach square stating in the Chamber last Wednesday week that all incidents of sexual abuse should be examined when the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs was at the same time telling the Westbank Orphanage survivors that sexual or any other kind of abuse will not be examined in the proposed mother and baby homes inquiry?

Adoption (Information) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: I thank my colleagues, Deputies Pringle and Connolly, for tabling this Bill. It is a discussion that needs to be had. The Bill will move the situation on. Deputy Connolly pointed out that the basic right to identity was key for people. The Bill is simple in that regard, in that it is asking for people to have the right find out what their identities are. The Minister raised issues...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)

Joan Collins: It is with heavy and angry hearts that we all came here this morning to discuss the conditions in which people lived in the decades following the foundation of this so-called republic. The treatment of people in mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries and industrial schools as well as our attitude towards services for disabled children was appalling. We have a unique opportunity now to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Feb 2021)

Joan Collins: 605. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will not dissolve on 28 February 2021; and if it will be extended for another year (details supplied). [9675/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jan 2015)

Joan Collins: 121. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the inquiry into the mother and baby homes does not include Westbank Orphanage, County Wicklow. [46774/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Sep 2019)

Joan Collins: 600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her office has made no contact with the UN special rapporteur, Mr. Pablo de Greiff, for the specific purpose of inviting him here to play a role with the mother and baby home survivors. [37221/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (19 Feb 2019)

Joan Collins: 588. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if consideration has been given to the proposal made by an organisation (details supplied) to split the historical investigations of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes from its redress considerations; and if and when same will be carried out. [8149/19]

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: ...of weeks. I welcome that. We have received 1,336 emails. Mr. John Campbell, Deputy Pringle's parliamentary assistant, checked it up to midday yesterday. It is a brilliant response from people and supporters who have been subjected to the mother and baby institutions. I will not call them homes. I have cleared this with the people who sent them in. The first email is from Noelle...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2019)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Clare Daly for bringing about a debate on this issue. I welcome the survivors who are here to listen to the debate. This motion is being supported by the Coalition of the Mother and Baby Homes Survivors. We did not put forward this motion because it had dropped out of a clear blue sky. It is clear that the records held by Tusla in respect of Bessborough mother and baby home...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Catherine Martin for tabling this very important motion. It is a very important aspect of child rearing from the point of view of women, their families and their extended families in dealing with premature births. The motion proposes the a change in the current status of maternity leave for mothers of premature babies; maternity leave will begin when the baby is delivered,...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this Private Members' motion. I endorse its calls to: - ensure all survivors of Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, related institutions, unlawful or forced adoption, and abuse in boarding out and adoptive placements receive redress; - use the findings of the OAK Report as a basis for the redress scheme; - remove the six-month time-based criteria...

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: ...not oppose the cross-party motion last night. There is, however, no commitment in the Minister's speech to include all of those who are excluded: the children who spent less than six months in a mother and baby institution; the children who were boarded out; and the children and mothers who were in institutions not covered by the mother and baby homes commission. I support the calls here...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: The commission of investigation into the 14 mother and baby homes - the term "homes" in that context sticks in my throat - and four county homes was due to report last February. Time was extended on the basis of the workload involved in investigating these institutions. Last year's interim report stated that the issues of living conditions, mortality rates, post-mortem practices, vaccine...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Joan Collins: ...important an issue for the people who are facing this awful situation. I also commend Deputy Funchion, who introduced this Bill. It is now 20 years since this legislation on adoption information and tracing was first announced and there has still been no action taken. Professor Conor O'Mahony, the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, commenting on the "RTÉ Investigates"...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: A public state insolvency fund is a matter of course in European countries so it is not unusual and this proposal is not being plucked from the sky. We have solidarity funds such as the Social Insurance Fund where people contribute through PRSI for the good of all even though that they may not get sick. All sorts of reliefs have been brought in for the very wealthy in this country. There...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: We are taking ten minutes each. Before I turn to the Bill, I wish to set out a few background points. In budget 2009, medical cards were means tested and the automatic entitlement to a medical card for over-70s was abolished. In the emergency budget of 2009, the social welfare Christmas bonus was abolished, jobseeker's allowance for those under 20 was reduced to €100 per week,...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: This is a moral and political issue, namely, whether we provide for our elderly and pay what people are owed or drag them through prolonged legal battles to cut costs. The fact remains that thousands of people who were entitled to State care were denied it. This was covered up, and when it came out successive Governments, led by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Green Party and the Labour...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: ...now estimates that we will pass the target of 1.5 degrees in years not decades if we do not rapidly change course in our climate action. We know the effects of climate will hit the poorest first and hardest, not just globally but in Ireland too. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul estimates that as much as 40% of Irish people are living in energy poverty, while the fossil fuel companies...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: I am sure the Tánaiste is aware that today is International Human Rights Day and in that respect, I draw his attention to the survey by the Vienna-based European Union Fundamental Rights Agency, FRA, on conditions for Traveller, Roma and Sinti communities across six EU countries. On Monday, the results of this survey were published. They point to a truly awful situation, with 31% of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: There are many issues I could raise, such as the national maternity hospital or redress for mother and baby homes, but I wish to raise the inability to recruit and retain staff across the public health service. It is now reaching a crisis point. This is particularly the case in the crucial area of home care services. Despite the increased allocation of hours by the Government, people...