Results 4,681-4,700 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

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

Joan Collins: I was to share time with Deputy McNamara, but he does not seem to be in the Chamber at the moment. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, published its 2023 report, which has been described as a "final warning" for the survival of humans on the planet. The IPCC now estimates that we will pass the target of 1.5 degrees in years not decades if we do not rapidly...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for putting forward this legislation. It is now clear to me the Government's policy is to allow more people to become homeless than we ever thought possible. The Government has not put in place any real or tangible supports to accommodate people who will be made homeless after the winter eviction ban is lifted on 1 April. It even voted down protections for...

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I support the motion being put forward by the Labour Party. There has been far too little action from the Government for the thousands of families waiting for new schools, school modernisation, or school places. The situation is not improving. It just goes to show how seriously the Government is taking this. I received a reply to a parliamentary question from the Minister for Education...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will provide evidence that the reduction in positive outcomes for appeals to the Social Welfare Appeals Office related to disability has nothing to do with whether the appeal has been heard orally or conducted in writing. [15196/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in the context of concerns over improper control of her Department over the independent Social Welfare Appeals Office, if there has been a change in Government policy relating to the operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office. [15192/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the ‘SW56 Introduction to Social Welfare Appeals Office’ information leaflet is no longer sent to appellants to the Social Welfare Appeals Office when their appeals are registered or available on the Social Welfare Appeals Office’s website. [15193/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide evidence around her Department’s assertions that staff members moving into the Social Welfare Appeals Office were experienced staff from within her Department. [15197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it is no longer made clear on the Social Welfare Appeals Office’s website that appellants can request an oral hearing. [15195/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provision that is being made within the tenant-in-situ scheme for tenants who are renting a property with a HAP in one local authority area but receive the HAP and are therefore on the housing list of a different local authority. [15085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the procurement process has been halted for a contractor for a school (details supplied). [14939/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Rights of the Child (29 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will ensure that the child-friendly booklet on the optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child will be made available in schools nationwide alongside awareness campaigns (details supplied). [15631/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of the Child (29 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when in 2023 he intends to ratify the second optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, namely, the optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, OPSC in 2023; and as it stands now, what are the specific legislative barriers that are preventing...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Missing Children (29 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure that the 116 000 EU missing children hotline number be on public display at airports and ports. [15611/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: I apologise to the Cathaoirleach for coming in late. I have just joined the meeting, so I have not been able to listen to the debate. I will leave it to the members who have been there from the beginning. I will let them ask the questions. It would be rude to do otherwise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: I will ask a question based on what the last speaker said about there being enough expertise. We have seen that come through in our meetings over the past number of months. There have been conferences and we were told there are opportunities and plans are being put in place. What is it that is breaking down? What is it that is allowing the gaps to stay there, even though there seems to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: Does Dr. Matthews mean an implementation strategy or something like that, or checks every so often that things have been put in place-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: -----and what happens on a training level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: Reinventing the wheel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: As well as political will, probably, to ensure that it happens.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: We are being told all the time there is no problem with resources or money, yet, in an area where there is a demand, we are not getting the resources. We should try to highlight that. I would like to hear what the representatives think about today's meeting. Task forces were set up in respect of the drugs strategy 25 years ago. All statutory bodies and all the people who had a stake in...