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Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: They said they would stay on for cover.

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: They were replacing a shift that was not fully staffed.

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: At the end of the Minister's reply he said he was most concerned at today's unannounced industrial action. The Minister is a member of one of the health care professions. Does he believe health care workers would refuse to work if they were not confident doing so? Those workers took a decision this morning not to continue work because they believed that the staffing levels were not high...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: The reason I put this forward as a Topical Issue today was because I heard on radio this morning that staff had refused to go to work as they could not provide the care needed in a safe environment due to a lack of staff. I felt it was a cry for help from these workers who wanted to raise this issue. They would not have taken this action this morning unless there was a chronic problem...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (21 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 494. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the availability of a step-down bed in the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [15533/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Regeneration Projects Funding (21 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 627. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total allocation of funding to be provided by his Department to each regeneration project in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15350/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 7. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the mental health service provision in the primary care unit in Cherry Orchard, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10. [14640/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 32. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the long delays for patients awaiting spinal surgery at Galway University Hospital. [14641/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the redundancies in January 2015 made by the Education and Training Board of four local training initiative co-ordinators and assistant co-ordinators who worked in the Saint John Bosco Youth Centre in Drimnagh in Dublin 12, when they will receive their enhanced redundancy payments. [13891/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Disability Access Projects (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: 794. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the future funding and status of the Dublin 12 Disability Mainstream Access Project (details supplied). [14452/15]

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I wish to share time with Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, Tom Fleming, Shane Ross and Catherine Murphy, with two minutes each.

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I support the motion, another motion on the banks. It is like déjà vuor Groundhog Day. We come back here every couple of months to debate issues dealing with the banks which have been heftily bailed out by the people. They continue to implement policies that are counterproductive for the ordinary person. The motion correctly calls on them to reduce their tracker interest rates...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: This Bill is not fit for purpose. However, I do not propose to vote against it. This Bill follows on from the Social Welfare Act 2012 Act, which proposed amendments to the one-parent family payment. During debate on that legislation, the Minister gave a commitment that these cuts would not be proceeded with in 2015 if decent, affordable and accessible child care had not been put in place....

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

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Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I am delighted with the reply and we can confidently say that they will be open, because there may just have been a lack of understanding about how to meet the criteria Pobal was looking for. If all sides sit down, that will be easily sorted. I also want to raise the question of funding. Is there a possibility that the funding could be better streamlined, that is, that the grant could...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I too heard about this issue late last Thursday evening. Many people panicked, as could be expected, and I tabled the Topical Issue matter early yesterday evening. I thank the Minister of State for the letter he sent and for responding quickly. When I asked a subsequent question, he responded to me quickly again. I rang the CDETB earlier when I realised this matter would be taken in the...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I must concur with Deputy Boyd Barrett. Nothing the Minister of State has said has convinced me and many other people that there is a need for this. FLAC has come out and said that section 3 should be deleted as it does not present as having a purpose other than to make it more difficult for carers to access income supports since it does not alter the actual conditions for eligibility other...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: We are dealing with this section again. We all feel we are expressing the negativity of this section when we say that the inclusion of the word "not" is negative law-making. This has quite clearly been outlined by the Free Legal Advice Centres, which have major concerns about this section. We are questioning why the Department and the Minister of State want to change the current...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 5:In page 6, line 9, after “Minister” to insert the following:"only to be engaged for short term, specific work loads or backlogs and only after all attempts to fill permanent positions to be agreed between workers representatives and the Department".

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Joan Collins: I also tabled an amendment to this section on the basis that the Minister of State would not accept the deletion of the section itself. My amendment was to add that agency staff were:only to be engaged for short term, specific work loads or backlogs and only after all attempts to fill permanent positions to be agreed between workers representatives and the Department.I do not understand why...