Results 21-40 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce the horse-drawn carriages Bill in the next month (details supplied). [42063/24]

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 9: In page 8, betwen lines 9 and 10 to insert the following: “(2) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the cost of extending the fuel allowance to those in receipt of the working family payment.”. We discussed this already. It was also discussed with the Minister's...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: We will wait until next week and then see what the report is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: The are real fears about the danger facing Irish troops from Israeli forces. We still have flights carrying munitions through Irish airspace to arm a country that is pointing tanks at our troops and firing on UN positions. We recognised the State of Palestine and that was an important act of solidarity. The next step is to immediately pass the occupied territories Bill and ban all trade...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: What about the inheritance tax?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I generally agree with the points and critiques of Deputies Donnelly and Ó Cuív and, therefore, I will not repeat them. I will come in on two or three aspects I want to address with the Minister. Like everyone here, I support measures that help people make ends meet. Once-off payments are definitely welcome, as has been said. They are a huge relief for people who are desperately...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: Yes, the Minister covered a lot of it. However, let us say we do not get that energy bonus next year, that the Government does not offer it. An increase in the €35 a month now over the next winter period would be worth more than the bonus payments if it was in that fuel part of the household package, and it would be more consistent for people. That is the point I continuously make....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: It is not a huge cohort of people but it is an important cohort of people who are in work and many of them suffer from energy poverty and deprivation. That definitely has to be looked at. We are letting people down by not looking at those structural changes that need to be given to people.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has to date not received the fuel allowance. [41889/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Agreements (16 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 219. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a matter (details supplied). [42078/24]

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I have tabled two amendments to this Bill. I have been working on one for a while and the other, from a constituent, was raised with me recently. The first amendment is to review extending the fuel allowance to those in receipt of working family payments. This is a demand I have been making at successive budgets. It has been called for for years by numerous groups working with people...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (15 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will finalise the approval of pension increases for the 11,000 retired Eir staff and the over 6,000 An Post retirees (details supplied). [40986/24]

World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: First, I welcome these statements on World Mental Health Day. It is vital we mark what has become a crisis that has touched practically every family in the country. I wish to express my solidarity with the many people suffering with mental health and depression, with those families who have lost loved ones to suicide, and also people working within the mental health services. Everybody...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I echo the 75% of people in a poll published at the weekend who said this budget was an attempt to buy the next election. This budget was a give-away budget to hide from the electorate that the Government has given up on making any real or structural change in the country. It ignored calls made across civil society, by the Dáil and by people living in poverty, in deprivation, on low...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will initiate the process to put the Dublin/Monaghan bombings history into the history syllabus. [40164/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 591. To ask the Minister for Health the reason every hospital or health clinic does not have portable hoists to assist patients who need them (details supplied); and the policy the HSE has in place ensuring hoists are available in health environments. [39985/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 598. To ask the Minister for Health the current public health nurse staffing levels in the health clinics in Armagh Road, Old County Road, Curlew Road and Island Bridge; and what the staffing levels should be. [40053/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 599. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available to recruit public health nurses specifically for the health clinics in Armagh Road, Old County Road, Curlew Road and Island Bridge; when funding will be made available; and when the posts will be filled. [40055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if all drugs and alcohol task forces have been informed and funded to pay their workers (details supplied). [40102/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the organisation or company that will be responsible for recruiting and paying the wages of workers in the following services, cleaning, catering, running the canteen(s), porters and maintenance in the new Children’s Hospital. [40170/24]