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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Where does the funding come from to pay these workers, if not the HSE?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: 7. To ask the Minister for Health the reason youth service workers employed through the City of Dublin ETB channel of funding in the drugs and alcohol task forces have not received the October 2023 WRC 8% pay rise or had their wages restored to pre-2009 cuts levels; and what detailed measures the Government is putting in place that pay rises are specifically accounted for in channels of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I ask why youth service workers employed through the City of Dublin Education and Training Board channel of funding in the drugs and alcohol task forces have not received the October 2023 WRC 8% pay rise or had their wages restored to pre-2009 cuts levels. What detailed measures is the Government putting in place so that pay rises are specifically accounted for in channels of funding?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: That is interesting. I raised this issue on Leaders' Questions again a couple of weeks ago. The way the funding seems to operate with section 10, section 39 and section 56 organisations and all the private charitable status groups makes it difficult to see where an 80% increase in an area has to be met through existing funding. My understanding is the Department of Health has the funding....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Pre-2009 and the crash, all these workers were linked in with public sector pay and got increases as public sector workers got their increases. That is my understanding from talking to people in the canal drugs task force and other task forces. That link was broken in 2009. I am sure the Minister of State will agree it is a serious issue that these workers have not had their pay restored...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: The Minister replied to me last May saying that the HSE had established a community nursing national oversight group in 2022. What has that group done? We have known that there is a crisis in public health nursing for the last two, three and four years. What are we doing to fundamentally resolve that issue? It is a postcode thing. Children in areas like Drimnagh, Crumlin, Walkinstown and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: GPs will not accept parents going to them to look for developmental checks. Parents have tried that. That is not an option.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: It is left to the parents to ascertain if their children are not well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the emergency measures the Government will put in place to ensure developmental checks resume in Dublin 8, 10 and 12, given the severe lack of child developmental checks in the area. [19450/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: It sounds a bit like "Groundhog Day". I have been raising this issue for the last year. I raised it in last March and April in relation to the Curlew Road, Armagh Road and Old County Road health centres. We were told that two teams were to be put into Armagh Road, or rather that there were 4.6 public health nurses between Armagh Road and Curlew Road and they were going to be put into the...

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

Joan Collins: I note that the Minister for Finance is not in the Chamber.

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

Joan Collins: Can I defer it?

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

Joan Collins: I was not. I checked with my office to make sure. I was at a meeting at 2.15 p.m. and I checked in my office before I walked in the door.

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...

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

Joan Collins: I will have to read that reply again as it got very convoluted. I will read it in detail because I want to come back to the Minister of State on it. It does not look to me as though Ireland's taken position is as positive as he has stated. All OECD members were part of the 48 countries that voted against the UN resolution. Those countries represent 15% of the world's population and are...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (23 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: 638. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided by HSE to meals on wheels service providers in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17816/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: 639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time healthcare assistants employed by the HSE working in each health centre and primary care centre within CHO7 in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (23 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests made to the HSE for a meals on wheels service for individuals via the public health nurse in 2023; and the percentage of those requests that were approved, in tabular form. [17819/24]