Results 1-20 of 974 for at speaker:Joan Collins

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Joan Collins: In December, I submitted a question on the lack of development assessments for newborn babies at three and ten months of age at the Old County Road Health Centre. The reply I received explained there was a deficit of public health nurses and that a plan was in place to see children on the waiting list in January 2023. I put the question again in the Dáil at the end of January, after...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: I acknowledge that more than 1 million people have received their third dose of the vaccine to date, but why are there not more local pharmacies and community centres involved in providing third doses? I went to Citywest on the Monday before last. I had not received an appointment from the HSE; I was a walk-in. I got there at 8 o'clock in the morning. I spent two hours standing outside in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (24 May 2022)

Joan Collins: 738. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds that were injured at racetracks from 1 January 2022 to date; the nature and date of the injuries at the tracks at which they occurred; the number euthanised by track vets; the number and the causes of additional racing fatalities; and if post-mortems were carried out. [26484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has been in contact with the Minister of State at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for Disability in relation to the ongoing lack of available therapists or therapy services at a school (details supplied); and if so, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (6 May 2015)

Joan Collins: The fact is that no housing will be built for at least two years. We will be facing this crisis of families losing their homes because of rent increases. I would be delighted if the Minister, Deputy Kelly, introduced rent certainty and capped rent at a certain level even for three years on an emergency basis and then looked at how people can be protected with regard to rent supplement to...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joan Collins: Having thought about the situation I do not agree with the comments of the Minister of State. We have been discussing an amendment to the effect that all avenues are investigated first to provide full-time work and permanent jobs in those positions. The Minister of State made a point to the effect that many of the appeals are accepted on the basis that further information has come forward...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Joan Collins: The latest polls place Fine Gael at 19% and the Labour Party at 6%. We can compare this to the Red C poll of February 2011, when Fine Gael was at 40% and the Labour Party was at 20%. The Government is now as unpopular as the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government which presided over the bank guarantee, the bank bailout, the economic crash and the troika bailout. That is some...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: It recently came to light at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health that private facilities, with separate entrances, would be provided at the new maternity and children's hospitals. These hospitals are being built with State funding at a high cost. A key element of the Sláintecare reforms of the health service is the removal of private practice from the public health system. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Discussion (4 May 2017)

Joan Collins: For the purposes of clarification, I welcomed the Minister's invitation to meet officials of the Department. We met once, at which point he was sending the information to the Attorney General for feedback. I respect the fact that there is a process and that we have to try to get this right. At the same time, however, we should try to move things on. I certainly do not want to attend...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)

Joan Collins: I wish to continue with the same theme, as it is important and the Taoiseach has not really given an answer. Last week it was reported that seven children at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, who are ready to go home and whose parents have been trained to bring them home cannot do so because the HSE cannot provide home care packages for them. The mother of one child has...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Joan Collins: They are not appalling. The following are words from Family Carers Ireland's submission, "These findings are a damning indictment of Government’s attitude towards carers and are completely at odds with Sláintecare’s core objective - to shift the delivery of care from an acute setting towards care in the community and home." Is the Minister of State saying those figures...

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Joan Collins: I honestly believe this is not merely a communication failure. It is a service and resource failure. Mr. Tony O'Brien, in 2008, stated, "At the time there was not sufficient capacity of that type in Ireland." It was not resourced and they had to go abroad to private companies overseas. That is a fundamental issue in our screening. I would like to get the facts. The Taoiseach correctly...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Road Improvement Schemes (16 Oct 2013)

Joan Collins: 81. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will arrange for the hardcore re-surfacing of the access road, walkers path from the old monastic carpark at Glendalough up to the old mines at the Wicklow Gap (details supplied). [43709/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Data (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Collins: 1024. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if ticket sale figures for rail passengers are based solely on sales at the booking office and do not include tickets sold at the vending machines outside stations. [46228/17]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Joan Collins: Mr. Mel Reynolds says there is enough land in this country to build at least 100,000 houses. This cannot be a case of simply telling the House that this will be looked at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: Is Mr. Creegan saying the NTA is looking at providing park-and-ride services at the outer end of spines? Is he saying there will be park-and-ride services but that the NTA will not run them, that they will be contracted out or-----

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: 36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social clauses that will be applied at the eligibility stage and at the award stage in order to factor in broad policy considerations into the procurement process of the regional employment service request for tender. [48536/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Nov 2021)

Joan Collins: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reinstate the pandemic unemployment payment for those workers who are affected by the restrictions of closure at midnight to the level the payment was at in March 2020. [57547/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the fuel portion of the household benefits package has not increased at all in budget 2023, to ensure that recipients of same would not be at risk of fuel poverty this winter. [55545/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I was not. I checked with my office to make sure. I was at a meeting at 2.15 p.m. and I checked in my office before I walked in the door.