Results 2,781-2,800 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: I thank the officials for attending today's meeting. Mr. Lynch has said that people who are on the back to work and back to education schemes are not put on the JobPath scheme. While participants in the JobPath scheme will not be referred to community employment schemes because they are allowed to participate in just one activation scheme or service at a time, I understand that customers...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: Mr. Lynch stated the case officer works with the person up to the point where he or she gets a place on JobPath. However, for example, should the person feel he or she is not getting decent training or that the course is not delivering for him or her and the case officer says there is a community scheme in the offing, why can the person not change?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: I understand from that point of view-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: Those 3,000 people have come back into employment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: Some 30,000 people have come back into employment. I forgot to put the comma in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Employment Programme (9 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: If the case officer can see after six or eight months that the programme is not working out for the individual, that the person is not getting what was expected to be achieved, and that a place on a community scheme is in the offing-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Business of Select Committee (9 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: I must leave at 10 a.m. to speak to the Heritage Bill. I will speak for ten minutes and then come back again.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Further Revised) (9 Nov 2017) Joan Collins: I do not have too many questions. We have a Bill on Committee Stage, namely, the Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016. Does the Minister support that Bill being pushed through over the next couple of months? It has been the subject of some discussion before the committee. It has been unanimously agreed that it is constitutionally sound. It is only a matter of bringing it through Committee...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Further Revised) (9 Nov 2017) Joan Collins: Will the issue of defined benefit be dealt with in the social welfare and pensions Bill?
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (14 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: 456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of dental work now covered by PRSI for a person (details supplied). [47651/17]
- Committee on the Future of Healthcare Report: Motion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: On the adjournment of the debate on 22 June, I made a point about sections 38 and 39 bodies not being addressed in the report and that there would be future reports on the matter. I made the point that we would have to deal with that at a later stage. We have moved on a lot since 22 June. The commitments made by the Minister for Health and the Taoiseach on the all-party Sláintecare...
- Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 Report: Motion (16 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: This morning I listened to an interview on the radio with Arne Kalleberg, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina. Recently he produced a book, Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies. He reported on precarious work and if-and-when contracts in five countries, namely, the UK, the US, Denmark, Spain and Japan. He made the very important point...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a permanent Irish teaching post has not been filled in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12; his views on this matter; and his plans to make provision for an additional full-time teacher. [48538/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: I do not want to go over old ground, but we know that we have a very dysfunctional health system. The NHS in Britain was set up by Aneurin Bevan and there was a structure to which everybody worked. In Ireland the system was developed in a completely different way. We have section 38 and section 39 organisations, the involvement of the religious in health care, private GP services and so...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: Before the Minister replies, I wish to ask him about the legislation proposed in the report, as members have not touched on it. Has he set in train the process of bringing in that legislation covering the new HSE board, the national health fund and what is proposed in the Sláintecare report, in other words, the accountability element?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: The Minister did not reply on the €600 million that was supposed to be for 2018. Has he got that funding earmarked? When will he bring forward the legislation or has he put that in process? When does the Minister see the position of chief executive officer, CEO, of the implementation office being filled? Will he come back before the committee in January because we will not get a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: This is for Sláintecare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: I am concerned that the Department is bringing in the draft plan without the lead person in place who will have to come in and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: Would it be going outside the realm to ask the Minister to provide us with the names of the people on that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)
Joan Collins: -----including consultants and so on who are devising-----