Results 2,261-2,280 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (22 May 2018)
Joan Collins: 413. To ask the Minister for Health if the central patient data project has been finalised; if it is at full operational capacity in St. James's Hospital; the name of the information technology company that installed it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22528/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 May 2018)
Joan Collins: 416. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter relating to a person (details supplied). [22534/18]
- Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I raised this issue with the Taoiseach last year during Leaders' Questions. It was thrown aside. I was told that what I had said was not the case and that it was not happening in St. John of God. I was told the children were getting the services. I followed up with parliamentary questions. Emma O'Kelly did a detailed report into this. It has been shown that St. John of God,...
- Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: The problem is that they are not getting it.
- Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: Parents have full respect for the teachers and the SNAs working there. The people there are great.
- Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I am disappointed the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, is not here to take this Topical Issue matter. However, the St. John of God special school in Islandbridge, providing services for children with profound disabilities, is in the constituency of the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne. I know she will be interested in what has come out about it over the past few days. ...
- Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I repeat the condemnation of Israel's brutal and murderous policy against unarmed protesters in Gaza. It is an outrage that should be met not just with outrage but with action. The moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem is a green light for the Israeli state's policy of Zionist expansion and colonisation. Israel claims that it is defending its borders from terrorism but these borders were...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I agree with the point made that the enactment period be defined, but perhaps at the next stage we could agree the timeframe, whether it is six months or three months.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I acknowledge the mandate of members of the committee, keenly listening to the debate this morning. I agree with Deputy Bríd Smith on this. I remember the first day I walked into my job. I was told where to start, went for training and was handed my contract. That process should be the case. That is normal and should be provided for in legislation.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: This is a fundamental issue for workers in the retail sector. Dunnes Stores' workers went on strike in 2015 to achieve secure hours and better pay. We should at least give workers a minimum of three hours' work. I cannot see how it would be a huge imposition on the State, even if that was to be the comparison, although I take on board the points made by the previous Deputy. For retail...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: The fact that the amendments have been ruled out of order leaves us in a difficult position. The Government is not accepting the alternatives proposed. I acknowledge the point being made by Deputy O'Dea that it is a very strong statement to make to criminalise a person but I do not have a problem with it. That said, if the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, and individual unions are...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: This amendment is linked to the replacing of four weeks with 104 weeks. Given that section 9 is included, it is not key. I am also speaking on behalf of Deputy Shortall, who cannot make the meeting this morning. She will probably be here later.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 18: In page 10, line 29, after "hours')," to insert "or". Amendment No. 23 would probably have been linked in with amendments Nos. 18, 19 and 21 because it substitutes greater hours.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I know it is out of order. It would have been part of that group if it had not been.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: Those three were all linked to the prohibition of zero-hour working practices in certain circumstances and minimum payment in certain circumstances. It was to take out section 18(1)(b) "as and when the employer requires him or her to do so, or", to change paragraph (c) to paragraph (b), and then that the number of hours concerned would be greater than three hours. Other Deputies had two....
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I agree with Deputy Clare Daly. I have no difficulty with providing for flexibility. There are obvious reasons that workers need flexibility. That balance has to be protected for the employee, and providing for a minimum of three hours does not go beyond that concept. It is in the University of Limerick report. We could look at providing for flexibility on Report Stage in the form of...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 19: In page 10, lines 30 and 31, to delete line 30 down to and including “(c) both” on line 31 and substitute “(b) both”.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 21: In page 11, line 5, to delete “paragraphs (a) and (c)” and substitute “paragraphs (a) and (b)”.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)
Joan Collins: I will be formally moving Deputy Shortall's amendment.