Results 3,241-3,260 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins
- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: I will not labour the point but this is an important amendment. The Government has not indicated how quickly social housing will be provided. Social and private residential housing are urgently needed. Will the vacant site levy be directed towards social housing?
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: I will give the Taoiseach a third opportunity to answer on the housing issue in Dublin City Council.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: It is about Government policy-----
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: -----after the Jonathan Corrie situation.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: Dublin City Council turned around 230 voids with the money it got from the Government. It it turned around another 200 without money for the Government and it still has 230 to turnaround.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: The money is not coming through and there needs to be a debate in the Chamber on it. If the Taoiseach is going to the sub-committee will he ask the Minister to come to the House to explain to us what the situation is?
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: I do not think so.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: Where is the opportunity to come back in here and report to us? We will be closing the Dáil in ten days.
- Other Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: It cannot and it will not.
- Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: 6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the 0.2% of gross domestic product investment in early-years services by comparison with the average of 0.8% across OECD countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27318/15]
- Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: Some 0.2% of GDP in this country is allocated for early years services by comparison with an average of 0.8% across the OECD. Does the Minister accept that the early years services model, dating from the Administration of Fianna Fáil, is not acceptable, and will he deal with the issue? Should a lot more money not be devoted to early intervention and child care?
- Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: A report commissioned by Tusla and the Irish Research Council is to be published soon by NUI Maynooth. It will show that the early childhood and after school care and education system offers too little too late in a child's life to have any real impact. Since the introduction of the early childhood care and education programme, child poverty has not decreased. It has almost doubled, from...
- Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: That is what I am saying.
- Other Questions: Early Childhood Care Education (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: Child poverty, in particular, and adult poverty, which has increased recently, could have been prevented had the Government made different choices. The Minister said the previous Administration left a terrible system in the HSE, which is correct. At that stage, I believe approximately 70 people were awaiting scoliosis treatment in Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin. However, under...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: The information that the RCNI has developed over the past 40 years was very comprehensive. It is not necessary for every centre to be involved in supplying the information, although at one stage all 16 centres were involved. The type of information they gathered did not need full representation. It was not designed as an operational administrative tool but can easily deliver that small...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: If there is a system that works why break it? Why bring it into a bigger organisation that does not have, but would like to have, the expertise that RCNI has? Why was RCNI not brought into the system to give and maintain that information in a proper way? Since January, Tusla has not collected the information as set up by the RCNI, which is recognised internationally. The European...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: 3. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the fact that all core funding for Rape Crisis Network Ireland has been cut and transferred to Tusla; and his views on the loss of valuable information to the Government and support for services for rape victims with the closure of the Royal College of Nursing. [27633/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: This question was asked as a Topical Issue recently and I read the Minister's reply. I wish to challenge some of the points made in the reply. I am not saying that funding for Rape Crisis Network Ireland should be reinstated but rather that we must remember the role of Rape Crisis Network Ireland, which has been crucial in collating data which has driven policy over the last 40 years. As...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Area Based Childhood Programme (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: 12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on his Department resourcing the area based childhood programme when the matched funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies is withdrawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27320/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Support Services (8 Jul 2015)
Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provisions he has put in place to ensure parents have access to proven parenting courses in their local area. [27316/15]