Results 5,241-5,260 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

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

Joan Collins: We will wait until next week and then see what the report is.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 9: In page 8, betwen lines 9 and 10 to insert the following: “(2) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the cost of extending the fuel allowance to those in receipt of the working family payment.”. We discussed this already. It was also discussed with the Minister's...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is Government policy to not intervene in NTA decisions where there is a clear negative impact on both communities and on the use of public transport in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42155/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce the horse-drawn carriages Bill in the next month (details supplied). [42063/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has to date not received the fuel allowance. [41889/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Agreements (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 219. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a matter (details supplied). [42078/24]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I generally agree with the points and critiques of Deputies Donnelly and Ó Cuív and, therefore, I will not repeat them. I will come in on two or three aspects I want to address with the Minister. Like everyone here, I support measures that help people make ends meet. Once-off payments are definitely welcome, as has been said. They are a huge relief for people who are desperately...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: Yes, the Minister covered a lot of it. However, let us say we do not get that energy bonus next year, that the Government does not offer it. An increase in the €35 a month now over the next winter period would be worth more than the bonus payments if it was in that fuel part of the household package, and it would be more consistent for people. That is the point I continuously make....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: It is not a huge cohort of people but it is an important cohort of people who are in work and many of them suffer from energy poverty and deprivation. That definitely has to be looked at. We are letting people down by not looking at those structural changes that need to be given to people.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (15 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will finalise the approval of pension increases for the 11,000 retired Eir staff and the over 6,000 An Post retirees (details supplied). [40986/24]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I am Deputy Joan Collins.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: Unfortunately, I cannot support this motion. This is not an endorsement of the Government's five-year total failure on housing. It is not even a rejection of the motion's argument for how an affordable housing scheme could work. I generally support Sinn Féin's housing policy. We discussed it at our branch meeting in Dublin South-Central recently. What I object to is the shift in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (23 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will take to intervene in a case where Cobh Heritage Centre, a State-funded organisation, has refused to pass on a WRC pay-increase adjudication (details supplied) to a long-term low-paid employee to ensure the worker is paid the wage the WRC has adjudicated she deserves and that the authority and principles of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 6. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify a statement in a press release by his Department on 23 September 2024 that ratifying the second optional protocol will mean that Ireland is officially bound by its terms under international law (details supplied). [42105/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a guarantee can be provided that the second optional protocol to the UNCRC will be ratified before the term of the Thirty-third Dáil concludes (details supplied); if his Department has finalised the outstanding legal obstacles; and if not, the measures required before Ireland can finally ratify this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I ask the Minister to clarify a statement in a press release from his Department on 23 September 2024 to the effect that ratifying the second optional protocol would mean that Ireland is officially bound by the terms under international law. It is linked to another question. Can a guarantee be provided that the second optional protocol to the UNCRC will be ratified before the end of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. He said it was signed in 2000 and we are still waiting for ratification. Certain legislative hurdles have had to be dealt with before we can reach that stage. The Minister said that, following enactment of the legislation, officials in his Department will work with the Office of the Attorney General on the next steps to ensure readiness across all relevant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Protection (24 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I would welcome any step that can put the protocol in place so that it is not put on the long finger again when there may be a new Minister in place. It is important to do that. The Minister had said that he expected an awareness-raising campaign to commence in early 2024, and details of the campaign had yet to be decided. Can he provide me with an update on the campaign and what he has...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: For well over two years I have been putting this question to a number of Ministers and nothing fundamental has changed. This is the last opportunity I will have to raise this issue. There is a critical lack of public health nurses in Dublin 12 and Dublin 8. There are in many cases no development checks happening for children. These are vital checks, as the Taoiseach knows. I have mother...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Joan Collins: It is not. Affordability is.