Results 261-280 of 5,145 for speaker:Joan Collins

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 8 o’clock I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this motion to the Dáil. I have been working with a group of small childcare providers in my constituency and I was happy to stand with them, and with hundreds of others, last week at the Federation of Early Childhood Providers' demonstration. The Taoiseach said the demonstration was "not warranted" and caused "great...

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

Joan Collins: Absolutely. I agree 100%.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: I am delighted to be speaking on the Bill. I welcome its introduction to create a DSGBV agency. There is widespread support for this move. It is a positive step forward in providing services for the victims of this violence. Ireland has no real infrastructure to deliver co-ordinated DSGBV services, and what services do exist are grossly under-resourced and underfunded. The point has been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: The National Transport Authority, NTA, plans to remove the 13, 68 and 69 buses which run from Clondalkin, Ratoath, down the Naas Road through Bluebell, Inchicore and into the city centre through Thomas Street, Camden Street and Islandbridge, and replace them with a single hourly service. There is significant opposition from commuters affected by this plan and the connecting communities...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: It has refused to meet them.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: I, too, am supporting the Private Members' motion regarding the suspension of the scrutiny requirement for the Eviction Ban Bill 2022 put forward by People Before Profit-Solidarity. For months now, Members of the Government have stood up in this House and have said the eviction ban did not work. We see the results now. We see more people facing eviction and more people homeless. I would...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (26 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what oversight, if any, his Department has in the awarding of public contracts by Uisce Éireann, particularly in relation to the Hybrid 2 project at Ringsend, which has been awarded to a company (details supplied); and if he is satisfied that this company is complying with obligations under public procurement...

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the affordable housing motion put forward by Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. It is an important issue to keep on raising. It is important to hold the Government and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to account for the crisis we are in now and have been facing for the past ten or 12 years. It has been clear for a...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: I will take about four minutes and Deputy Connolly will take whatever time she needs. I welcome the introduction of a cap on market revenues for energy companies, just as I welcomed the temporary solidarity contribution, but it comes far too late. The damage was done last winter. We all saw the obscene profits energy companies made while people were freezing in their homes because they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (21 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: 32. To ask the Minister for Health how he is making the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 a priority, to have it in operation by Christmas 2023 (details supplied). [40652/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: 53. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for their operation. [40651/23]

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: The cost-of-living crisis has not gone away. This is an ongoing crisis that has decimated peoples wages, savings and ability to make ends meet. People have seen thousands of euro extra in energy and mortgage payments, and thousands are never going to get it back. They have covered that cost by emptying their savings, putting themselves in debt, and through a massive reduction in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank the witnesses. From talking to a few of the organisations, they view the main aspects of the Bill as being about child maintenance payments and disregarding the means test for social welfare payments. It is no longer required for applicants for the one-parent family payment and jobseeker's transitional payment to make efforts to seek maintenance from their child's other parent. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: Is that going to be done concurrent with the legislation? Will those regulations be changed as this Bill goes through the Dáil and is implemented?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: 834. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what percentage of tracing applications made under the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 have been allocated to a social worker by the Adoption Authority of Ireland and Tusla – the Child and Family Agency respectively (with the percentage provided for each body). [39992/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Human Rights (13 Jul 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State for the reply and for the efforts that have been made to date in relation to the report that he has given there. It is obvious that the people in Belarus are being subjected to one of the most major crackdowns in their history. It was Jim Larkin who famously said that "an injury to one is an injury to all". It is in that spirit of solidarity that we have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Human Rights (13 Jul 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and I appreciate that. I must first say that I am disappointed that the Tánaiste is not here to take this Topical Issue matter. These are very important issues. Time is allocated for Topical Issue Debate to deal with these affairs. We will, however, receive a stock reply from the Minister of State who is here at the moment. We have brought this issue...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2023)

Joan Collins: As we know, five years ago people in this country voted in overwhelming numbers to confirm that abortion services are a vital and legitimate part of women's healthcare. We voted to have abortion services seen under the law as a legitimate healthcare service provided by the State. To date, that democratic choice has not been realised with over 775 women having to travel to obtain abortion...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Joan Collins: First, I send my solidarity to the Palestinian people in the face of the latest onslaught by the Israeli state. At least 12 Palestinians have been murdered, including four children. More than 3,000 people have been forced to leave their homes over recent weeks as the Israeli army assaulted Jenin refugee camp. These people had already lost their homes and been forced to live in a refugee...