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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I refer to targeted supports.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: They were once-off payments that do not deal with the issue.

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I hope this Bill is the first step in counteracting what I think is a process of profit-chasing by the banks by removing vital in-person infrastructure and services. I hope it is the start of the urgent action needed to ensure everyone has access to cash and banking services and is able to use cash across the economy. Most people have felt the effects of year after year of branch...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: My contribution will be an overview of the budget and its context. It was a huge opportunity for the Government to examine the fundamentals in our society that need to be addressed. Instead, this budget is the final nail in the coffin for any idea that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party Government has any plans or intentions to address the problems the country is facing. They...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to allocate extra time for students with dyslexia, dyscalculia and other learning difficulties in second level education (details supplied). [38791/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: Double child benefit payments should not just be for Christmas as the Minister referred to in her Christmas babies speech. They should be for childhood. That is why the Government should have implemented the second tier of child benefit recommended by the ESRI and many other organisations fighting for children's rights. That is why, in order to make real progress and reduce child poverty,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I have been dealing with the case of Marianne Byrne, a worker at the Cobh Heritage Centre in Cork. Marianne is a low-paid worker who has given 26 years of dedicated service. She was offered a 50 cent per hour increase by her employer after 16 years without a pay increase. Colleagues in a similar position were given raises of €1.50 an hour. Cobh Heritage Centre justified this paltry...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister but I am not very happy with that response. He refers to this being a specific WRC case. The case has been adjudicated upon. The centre has been told to pay Marianne the 85 cent extra, that is €14.85 per hour. That has gone through and it has been done. What I am raising is that we have a public body not implementing the WRC adjudication. If one has public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: The centre was able to pay a private company to represent it, is able to pay other workers a pay increase but it will not implement the WRC adjudication.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will initiate the process to put the Dublin/Monaghan bombings history into the history syllabus. [40164/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 591. To ask the Minister for Health the reason every hospital or health clinic does not have portable hoists to assist patients who need them (details supplied); and the policy the HSE has in place ensuring hoists are available in health environments. [39985/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 598. To ask the Minister for Health the current public health nurse staffing levels in the health clinics in Armagh Road, Old County Road, Curlew Road and Island Bridge; and what the staffing levels should be. [40053/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 599. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available to recruit public health nurses specifically for the health clinics in Armagh Road, Old County Road, Curlew Road and Island Bridge; when funding will be made available; and when the posts will be filled. [40055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if all drugs and alcohol task forces have been informed and funded to pay their workers (details supplied). [40102/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the organisation or company that will be responsible for recruiting and paying the wages of workers in the following services, cleaning, catering, running the canteen(s), porters and maintenance in the new Children’s Hospital. [40170/24]

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I echo the 75% of people in a poll published at the weekend who said this budget was an attempt to buy the next election. This budget was a give-away budget to hide from the electorate that the Government has given up on making any real or structural change in the country. It ignored calls made across civil society, by the Dáil and by people living in poverty, in deprivation, on low...

World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: First, I welcome these statements on World Mental Health Day. It is vital we mark what has become a crisis that has touched practically every family in the country. I wish to express my solidarity with the many people suffering with mental health and depression, with those families who have lost loved ones to suicide, and also people working within the mental health services. Everybody...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I have tabled two amendments to this Bill. I have been working on one for a while and the other, from a constituent, was raised with me recently. The first amendment is to review extending the fuel allowance to those in receipt of working family payments. This is a demand I have been making at successive budgets. It has been called for for years by numerous groups working with people...

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

Joan Collins: What about the inheritance tax?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: The are real fears about the danger facing Irish troops from Israeli forces. We still have flights carrying munitions through Irish airspace to arm a country that is pointing tanks at our troops and firing on UN positions. We recognised the State of Palestine and that was an important act of solidarity. The next step is to immediately pass the occupied territories Bill and ban all trade...