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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Chair and I thank the witnesses from Mayo County Council and Cork City Council for their attendance. We all agree that the housing issue is a serious issue for the settled communities, the Travelling community and any other community. It is a crisis issue and it has not happened overnight. The role of this committee is to hold the local authorities' feet to the fire, not so...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: There are officially 580 families in Cork. It was stated that there are 472 Traveller households in Mayo. Are those people already living in accommodation or are there figures for the Travelling community populations in both Cork and Mayo? Do they have figures for how many people identify themselves as Travellers in Cork city and Mayo?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Joan Collins: ...more. We know that one in ten GPs offers abortion care but 50% of counties have fewer than ten GPs offering abortion care. There is a strong urban-rural divide, with services centred around Dublin, Cork and Galway. Just 10% of GPs are delivering abortion services, as the threat of criminal sanctions hangs over those offering them. The Minister mentioned that 11 out of 19 maternity...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: ...more is to come. Only a few weeks ago, three members of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community had to bring forward a Topical Issue matter regarding Spring Lane in County Cork because of the lack of response from the local authority, Cork County Council, to the needs of the Travelling community in that halting site. Things that were supposed to have been done...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: ...here. The first is the long-term development of Spring Lane, and that seems to be moving along. What is not being addressed, however, is the maintenance of the halting site at the moment. The Cork Traveller Visibility Group wrote to us in that regard. The letter states: As you should know, [this family's] temporary, makeshift bay is one of the lowest points of the site, ... one of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: ...x201c;That a system is in place to ensure routine and emergency maintenance works and upgrade works are addressed in a timely manner and that contracts with external service providers are proactively managed.” Cork City Council formally responded to this, stating it would put an updated system in place to ensure routine and emergency maintenance and upgrade works are carried out...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: ...are employed by local authorities and provide services to Irish Water. That was due to end in 2026. Today and tomorrow, water services workers are withdrawing their services from Irish Water in Cork south, Waterford, Dublin and parts of Tipperary. They plan to include more areas and repeat their action next Tuesday and Wednesday. They are making themselves available to their employers,...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Joan Collins: ...to the greening of heavy rail. The electrification of existing railway lines would be expensive and time-consuming. The light rail system, such as the Luas and the DART, should be extended in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, etc. The MetroLink service to Dublin Airport should go ahead. There is also the issue of making transport free. This is crucial as a key incentive to get people out...

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: ...who cannot afford it are subsidising those who can. That is why I am opposed to the carbon tax. It is inequitable from the point of view of those who need it most. Most Deputies received an email from a man in County Cork who had listened to Dr. Ciaran Byrne, the director of national retrofit for the SEAI, being interviewed on a radio programme and the Minister, Deputy Catherine...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: ...I also support a publicly-owned and not-for-profit energy system, including the nationalisation of all existing energy generation in the State to address the energy and climate crises. A mass protest took place in Cork on 17 September leading to one in Dublin next Saturday, 24 September. Theses have been organised by the Cost of Living Coalition, which includes a wide range of groups...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: ...the number of persons who have made applications for the rent supplement or supplementary welfare allowance or exceptional needs payments from 1 May to 24 June 2022 from the Intreo Offices in Cork Street and Bishop Square, Dublin; and if there has been an increase in applications since her Department advertised the service. [34874/22]

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: ...lecturer and researcher in NUI Galway who has produced surveys and reports on the abuse of workers in the hospitality sector, particularly in Galway. I also recognise the One Movement in Galway and Cork and Deirdre Falvey who was one of the journalists who exposed what was going on in The Ivy restaurant and in other restaurants in her pieces and articles in the newspapers. The Bill needs...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: ...parents, resources are the most important part of it. It has been mentioned that the Ombudsman for Children said the Department is failing our children. There are black spots, notably in Dublin and Cork. He also said the system can fail in its response but that such failings occur is not acceptable. His report estimates as many as 15,500 children must travel outside their local school...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: ...still do not have placements and other families are still chasing placements outside their local areas. The report states: For children who live in provision 'black spots', most notably Dublin and Cork, the system can fail in its response. That such failings occur is not acceptable. I agree 100% with that. It is just not acceptable. The report estimates that as many as 15,500...

Emergency Budget: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: .... This seems to be an inadequate sum. I have tabled parliamentary questions to the Minister for Social Protection asking the number of people who have made applications from last May to April this year. I received some figures for Intreo offices on Cork Street and Bishop's Square in Dublin and the Minister also indicates that the Department is compiling more extensive statistics. This...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...of persons who have made applications to in the form of rent supplement or supplementary welfare allowance or exceptional needs payments from 1 May 2021 to 30 April 2022 from the Intreo Offices in Cork Street and Bishop Square, Dublin 8. [24503/22]

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: ...national maternity strategy is a key part of the overall plan, with a commitment to build four new state-of-the-art modern national maternity hospitals co-located with acute hospitals in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. We have a very serious problem with the new maternity hospital to be built on the Elm Park site in Dublin. I make no apologies for concentrating on the issue in this debate....

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: ...-specific accommodation projects." Cena is a housing body that can play a leading role in respect of Traveller housing accommodation. Those of us on the committee visited several sites in Dublin, Cork and Galway. When I visited the site at Spring Lane with my colleagues, it was appalling to see people having to live in the conditions they were in. On the other hand, when we walked into...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: ...requirement. This is coupled with an unprecedented shortage of available rental property. People have nowhere to go when they face these notices. The Simon Communities of Ireland found that in Cork city, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Waterford city not one property was available to rent within the affordability range of someone on a low income who was eligible for a housing assistance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: .... That is the reality of it. It is a question of how we transpose all these reports and groups to the reality on the ground. Members of the committee visited the Spring Lane halting site in Cork on the basis of the Ombudsman for Children's report. It would be an underestimate to say that it did not have a big impact on all of us. Travellers have been living in those conditions for...