Results 5,001-5,020 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: Does Mr. Ó Donnabháin foresee that any family will be forced to go onto particular sites? I will not say they are unauthorised sites, but will they be forced to reside at the side of a road?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: Is he confident of this?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: What is the position with the Traveller accommodation programme development plan?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: I accept what Mr. Ó Donnabháin is saying. It is part of the development plan and it will not restrict them. How is Mayo adopting its plans to ensure the future eight-year plan, with a mind to a growing community there, with regard to Traveller accommodation?
- 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?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: Do the witnesses have an official information on the number of people in their areas who are part of the Travelling community? Are there 1,000 or 2,000 households?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: Mr. Gilligan is saying that he officially knows of 472 Traveller households and that they are broken down in that way. Does that encapsulate the whole Travelling community in Mayo?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: But 472 for a county like Mayo is a small number of people or families. I fail to understand how we did not grasp this ten years ago in the context of accommodation for the Travelling community in the county. It beggars belief. I thank the witnesses and appreciate their answers.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Joan Collins: I was trying to find the section to bring this issue up in. It relates to the double payments, Christmas bonuses and that. A neighbour of mine went on jobseeker's allowance in November, but had previously been on supplementary welfare and carer's allowance for looking after his mother. He did not get the Christmas bonus. I submitted a question to the Minister, who reviewed the case and...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Joan Collins: I take the Minister's point, but in this day and age, with technology, the Department should be able to trace the record of a person's payments when they are on different payments. Some of those who are on a very low income and do not get the Christmas bonus or the double payment are not in a position to raise it with their local TD or social welfare office or are not aware that they are...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (7 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: 460. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social work staff who are employed by the Adoption Authority of Ireland and by TUSLA’s National Adoption and Tracing Service, respectively, broken down by the number of staff at each grade. [5506/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: 566. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant maxillofacial surgeon at St. James's Hospital; and the average waiting times to see the consultant. [5635/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dementia day centres located within CHO7; the capacity of each of these centres; and if each of the centres are opened five days a week. [5636/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: 568. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff by job title working in the accident and emergency department of the Mater Hospital. [5637/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: 569. To ask the Minister for Health the number of student midwives offered a full-time contract with the HSE in the Coombe Maternity Hospital in 2022 and 2023; of the number of contracts offered; the number that were accepted, in tabular form. [5638/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric urologist registrars working in CHI Crumlin in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [5639/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 882 of 17 January 2024, if the case will be reviewed, given the person (details supplied) did not receive the payment.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5831/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Feb 2024)
Joan Collins: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant rheumatologists attached to each hospital part of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [5833/24]
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Joan Collins: I ask the Minister and the Department to look into it and see if something can be done about an automatic entitlement.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Joan Collins: I would appreciate it if the Minister could come back to us on that. There has to be some way of dealing with it.