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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Statutory Instruments: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: Are these two rent-a-room schemes covered by the RTB? Have you discussed that in respect of landlord and tenant, which the person would be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Statutory Instruments: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: The officials have not discussed it with the Department of housing, no?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Statutory Instruments: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: Your scheme is extending so more and more people will hopefully be enticed to bring people in through the rent-a-room scheme for students and for people who are on the fair deal scheme. Particularly if it is expanding, the RTB question is an important one.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputies Connolly, McNamara, Harkin and Fitzmaurice.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: There is a lot of fanfare about this being a new start for Fine Gael, this Government and the country. In reality, what we see is the same old stale, out-of-touch political system that has been in power since the foundation of the State. We can play political musical chairs and give everything a fresh look but this is just two sides of the same coin. It is another Taoiseach for Fine Gael...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: 790. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 29 February 2024, if a matter regarding a fuel allowance payment (details supplied) can be rectified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14799/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I really appreciate them and they have highlighted some aspects I was not aware of. They also made clear some issues I was aware of, particularly relating to the average earnings and the input to the budget. We still have not got an explanation, as Ms Loughran said. I will dovetail a bit to the PBO report we discussed earlier on universal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: For clarity-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: -----Mr. Moynihan is making it very clear that AHBs have no access specifically to retrofitting grants or anything like that for their complexes or for housing estates. Mr. Seán Moynihan: I will go away and clarify that. I did not come prepared for that question but I will drop a note to the Deputy on it. My understanding is, from my experience, that we do not, but I better check...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I agree with the last two speakers on the documentary last night on the O'Shea report but I want to raise the following issue. Earlier this month, we learned that health and social care staff with community and voluntary bodies are still awaiting pay increases agreed last October. I am referring to section 10, section 39 and section 56 workers. There was an agreement for an 8% pay increase...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: It is their view.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Taoiseach. It has been 15 years since the crash. Until 2021, many of these workers had not even received a pay increase. The staffing community of voluntary organisations who are awarded the pay increase of 8% have not received it and have not been paid to date. That is outrageous. Why has it not been paid and when will it be paid? This needs to happen urgently. It...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with Deputy Harkin. I thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for presenting this Private Members' motion to the Dáil. I welcome the news that the Government is planning to scrap the Green Paper on Disability Reform. The proposals were widely condemned by a broad coalition of disability, mental health and carers' groups. I am glad the Government has recognised, as...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I also wish to express solidarity with the families of the Stardust 48 and the communities of Kilmore, Artane and Coolock, where I grew up as a child. I want to raise the issue of children's developmental health checks. I raised this issue on several occasions last year with regard to the Curlew Road and Old County Road primary care centres. I have recently been informed that the same...

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]

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

Joan Collins: 641. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant gastroenterologists and WTE gastroenterologist registrars based in St. James's Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17820/24]